Toward Total Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving

Explore the cutting-edge developments in autonomous driving technology through this Ben Taskar Distinguished Memorial Lecture delivered by Drago Anguelov, head of research at Waymo. Delve into the crucial role of machine learning in creating a robust and scalable autonomous vehicle stack, encompassing key capabilities such as perception, behavior prediction, planning, simulation, and evaluation. Discover recent Waymo research on high-performance ML models and architectures designed to handle the complexity of real-world environments. Examine the potential impact of autonomous driving advancements on people with disabilities and consider current open questions about enhancing embodied AI agent capabilities through machine learning. Gain insights from Anguelov's extensive experience in 3D vision, pose estimation, and computer vision systems developed during his tenure at Google and Zoox.