A premier forum uniting academic, industry, and standards communities to shape the next generation of cooperative, foundation-model-driven autonomous driving and intelligent transportation systems.
The 6th edition of the DriveX Workshop focuses on how foundation models and cooperative systems can redefine perception, prediction, planning, and decision-making for autonomous driving and intelligent transportation infrastructure.
Traditional single-vehicle pipelines have achieved impressive progress in 3D detection and tracking, yet they remain constrained by limited viewpoints, occlusions, and domain shifts. Cooperative driving systems, powered by V2X communication and roadside/edge intelligence, extend sensing range, enrich scene context, and enable shared representations across vehicles and infrastructure.
In parallel, foundation models, including vision, vision-language, and multi-modal large models, unlock powerful generalization capabilities: open-vocabulary understanding, scalable pretraining, zero-shot adaptation, and interpretable reasoning about complex road scenes. Emerging end-to-end and agentic systems such as large driving models promise unified perception-to-control frameworks but raise new questions in trustworthiness, reliability, calibration, and evaluation at urban scale.
DriveX 2026 convenes researchers and practitioners from computer vision, robotics, communications, transportation, AI safety, and policy to:
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:00 – 08:20 | Opening Remarks – Welcome & Workshop Overview |
| 08:20 – 08:40 | Keynote 1 - Dr. Walter Zimmer (UCLA & TUM) Keynote |
| 08:40 – 09:00 | Keynote 2 - Prof. Jiaqi Ma (UCLA) Keynote |
| 09:00 – 09:20 | Keynote 3 - Prof. Angela Dai (TUM) Keynote |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | Keynote 4 - Prof. Cordelia Schmid (INRIA) Keynote |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Keynote 6 - Prof. Davide Scaramuzza (UZH) Keynote |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffe Break & Poster Session I (Malmo Massan Exhibit Hall) |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Keynote 5 - Prof. Andreas Geiger (Uni. Tübingen) Keynote |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Keynote 7 - Prof. Manmohan Chandraker (UCSD & NEC Labs) Keynote |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Keynote 8 - Prof. Daniel Cremers (TUM) Keynote |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Panel Discussion I: Academic Track Panel |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch Break & Networking (Malmo Arena - Arena Room) |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | Keynote 9 - Vassia Simaiaki (Wayve) Keynote |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Keynotes 10 - Dr. Boris Ivanovic (NVIDIA) Keynote |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Keynotes 11 - Dr. José Álvarez (NVIDIA) Keynote |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Keynotes 12 - Dr. Federico Tombari (Google) Keynote |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Keynotes 13 - Dr. Tony (Xuewei) Qi (Motional) Keynote |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Keynotes 14 - Dr. Katie Luo (Waymo) Keynote |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Coffee Break & Poster Session II |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Keynotes 15 - Prof. Laura Leal-Taixé (NVIDIA) Keynote |
| 16:20 – 17:00 | Panel Discussion II: Industry Track Panel |
| 17:00 – 17:10 | Oral Presentation 1: Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Taxonomy, Methods, and Challenges Oral |
| 17:10 – 17:20 | Oral Presentation 2: How Far Can 5,500 Hours of Driving Take You? A Scaling Law Analysis of Video Diffusion Models Oral |
| 17:20 – 17:30 | Oral Presentation 3: A Hierarchical World Model for Driving Oral |
| 17:30 – 17:40 | Oral Presentation 4: Introducing The KITScenes Multimodal Dataset Oral |
| 17:40 – 17:50 | Oral Presentation 5: Emergent 3D Instance Segmentation from Self-Supervised Point Transformers Oral |
| 17:50 – 18:00 | Awards Ceremony – Best Paper (1st, 2nd, 3rd), Best Poster, Best Reviewer, Challenge Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) |
| 18:00 – 18:10 | Closing Remarks & Group Photo |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Workshop Reception & Networking |
Final schedule, room allocation, and speaker order will be announced closer to the workshop date.
6th edition
