Keynote Lecture Recent Research Shaping the Self-Driving Car Industry

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence are fueling parallel progress in the self-driving car industry. Maintaining a close connection between academic research and industry is crucial for success in this rapidly evolving and highly challenging field. This keynote will provide an overview of promising recent research activities, including 3D data-driven perception, vision-language models, end-to-end learning, and foundation models. It will highlight how these advancements can make impact by addressing some of the remaining challenges in autonomous driving, supporting the ambition to push further the performance and the capabilities of self-driving cars systems in series vehicles.