Computer Graphics for Autonomous Vehicles

Jose A. Iglesias-Guitian is a Research Scientist in Visual Computing and Computer Graphics. He works for the Computer Vision Center (CVC) at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). His main expertise is in Computer Graphics and nowadays he collaborates with automotive companies on the intersection of graphics with computer vision and autonomous driving. Before he was an Associate Researcher at Disney Research (The Walt Disney Company), based in Edinburgh (UK). Before that, Jose spent research periods at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and for more than five years he was at the Visual Computing Group of CRS4 (Italy) where he received a Ph.D. Degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering (2011). Jose has obtained predoc and senior EU Marie Curie​ fellowships. His research is focused on real-time graphics, volumetric and translucent material rendering, noise reduction and xR interactive applications. More information about his research work is available at www.j4lley.com.

German Ros is a Research Scientist at Intel Intelligent Systems Lab (Santa Clara, California), working on topics at the intersection of Machine Learning, Simulation, Virtual worlds, Transfer Learning and Intelligent Autonomous agents. He leads the CARLA organization as part of the Open Source Vision Foundation. Before joining Intel Labs, German served as a Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute (TRI), where he conducted research in the area of Simulation for Autonomous Driving, Scene Understanding and Domain Adaptation, in the context of Autonomous Driving. He also helped industrial partners, such as Toshiba, Yandex, Drive.ai, and Volkswagen to leverage simulation and virtual words to empower their machine learning efforts and served at the Computer Vision Center (CVC) as a technical lead for the simulation team. German Ros obtained his PhD in Computer Science at Autonomous University of Barcelona & the Computer Vision Center.

Vangelis Kokkevis is Director at the Driving Simulation and Control at the Toyota Research Institute (Los Altos, CA). His team is building a high-end simulation platform and visual tools to accelerate the development and testing of autonomous driving systems for Toyota’s future vehicles. His works involves building a high-end simulation platform and visual tools to accelerate the development and testing of autonomous driving systems for Toyota’s future vehicles. Please find more information at http://www.tri.global/.

Jose M. Alvarez is a Senior Deep Learning Engineer at NVIDIA working on scaling-up deep learning for autonomous driving. Previously, he was a senior researcher at Toyota Research Institute and at Data61/CSIRO (formerly NICTA) working on deep learning for large scale dynamic scene understanding. Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at New York University under the supervision of Prof. Yann LeCun. He graduated with his Ph.D. from Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in October 2010, with focus on robust road detection under real-world driving conditions. Dr. Alvarez did research stays at the University of Amsterdam (in 2008 and 2009) and the Electronics Research Group at Volkswagen (in 2010) and Boston College. Since 2014, he has served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Yongjoon Lee is Engineering Manager of Simulation at Zoox, responsible for the simulation platform to validate and improve the safety and quality of their autonomous driving software. Previously, he worked at Bungie, where he worked as engineering lead for teams on AI, animation, action system, cinematic system, and mission tools. He contributed technical papers at SIGGRAPH on realistic motion synthesis using reinforcement learning. He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington.

Philipp Slusallek is Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where he heads the research area on Agents and Simulated Reality. At Saarland University he has been a professor for Computer Graphics since 1999, a principle investigator at the German Excellence-Cluster on “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” since 2007, and was Director for Research at the Intel Visual Computing Institute 2009-2017. Before coming to Saarland University, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University. He is associate editor of Computer Graphics Forum, a fellow of Eurographics, a member of acatech (German National Academy of Science and Engineering), and a member of the European High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. In addition, Prof. Slusallek co-founded the European AI Initiative CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe, claire-ai.org) in 2018. He originally studied Physics in Frankfurt and Tübingen (Diploma/M.Sc.) and got his PhD in Computer Science from Erlangen University. His research covers a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence in a broad sense, simulated/digital reality, real-time realistic graphics, high-performance computing, motion synthesis, novel programming models for CPU/GPU/FPGA, computational science, and others.