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August 28, 2022

Tesla CVPR Talk - [CVPR'22 WAD] Keynote - Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla

Key Notes

  • Tesla autopilot for lane management, safety, lane changes, exits, blind spots
  • 100k cars have self-driving beta software (parking lots, city streets, highway)

  • Algos onboard computer
  • 8 Cameras - 36 frames / second

  • 360 views around cars
  • No other sensors outside this
  • Segmentation to classify Drivable / Not

  • Depth is also not enough / Difficult for occlusion detection
  • (Capture)
  • Occupancy Networks



  • Consistent output space
  • Compute efficiently

  • 3D point occupied or not
  • Fixed queries attend over image space feature
  • Positional embedding in image space

  • Moving / Non-Moving obstacle
  • Produce both moving/static in same frame


  • Occupancy produces both include in occupancy (Static + Dynamic)

  • Nerf - Scene creation
  • Extract descriptions from scene
  • Build perspective outside the world




  • Occupancy to Collision Avoidance
  • Based on direction and velocity estimate collision avoidance

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