🚀 Workshop Announcement & Call for Papers | CVPR 2026 🚗✨AUTOPILOT 😉

[Ali Alshami]

Hey everyone!
We’re excited to be back, this time with a brand-new name: "AUTOPILOT"
Our 3rd-edition CVPR 2026 workshop goes beyond a traditional workshop. AUTOPILOT is a dedicated initiative focused on safety-critical autonomous driving, exploring how foundation models and vision-language models can be effectively applied to real-world driving scenarios.

📅 June 3, 4, 2026 | Full-Day, In-Person
📍 Denver, Colorado, USA (in conjunction with CVPR 2026)

📄 Call for Papers
We invite high-quality, original research submissions to AUTOPILOT @ CVPR 2026.
Topics include (but are not limited to):

- Foundation models for autonomous driving (VLMs/LLMs, generative)
- Vision-language models for perception & scene understanding
- Open-world learning & OOD detection
- Motion forecasting, sensor fusion, and domain adaptation
- Resource-efficient training & edge deployment
- Novel datasets and benchmarks for safety-critical tasks
Note: More information can be found on the website about these topics.

🧾 Submission Tracks
This year, AUTOPILOT features two submission tracks:

🔹 Archival Track (Full papers, up to 8 pages)
- Accepted papers will be published in the official CVPR 2026 Workshop Proceedings
📌 Submission via OpenReview:
👉 https://lnkd.in/gee7DXaK
🔹 Non-Archival Track (Extended abstracts/position papers, up to 4 pages)
- Ideal for work-in-progress, recently published papers, or ideas seeking discussion
📌 Submission via OpenReview:
👉 https://lnkd.in/gnBcRnWB

🎤 Our Invited Speakers
- Dragomir Anguelov - VP, Head of AI Foundations, Waymo
- Manmohan Chandraker - Professor & Department Head, UCSD/ NEC Lab
- José M. Álvarez M. Alvarez - Director of Research, NVIDIA
- Aniruddha Kembhavi - Director of Science Strategy, Wayve
- Bat El Shlomo Eyal-El Shlomo - Director of Perception, Zoox
- Nemanja Djuric - Principal Tech Lead Manager, Aurora

👥 Organizing Committee

- Ali K. AlShami — University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS)
- Ryan Rabinowitz — University of Notre Dame
- Maged Shoman, PhD Shoman — UT-ORII
- Jianwu Fang — Xi’an Jiaotong University
- Lukáš Picek — INRIA / PiVa AI
- Shao-Yuan Lo — National Taiwan University
- Steve Cruz — University of Notre Dame
- Lei-lei Li — Xi’an Jiaotong University
- Nachiket Kamod — University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS)
- Jugal Kalita — University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS)
- Terrance Boult E. Boult — University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS)

🏆Three Challenges will be hosted on Kaggle for the workshop. See the website for more details.

🌐 Official Website
🔗 https://lnkd.in/g7r7bGnr