CARLA Autonomous Driving Challenge

CARLA Challenge 2023

Overview

Welcome to the CARLA Autonomous Driving Challenge. This competition is open to any participant from academia and industry. You only need to sign up on the CARLA AD Leaderboard, providing your team name and your institution.

This challenge leverages the existing CARLA AD Leaderboard platform to evaluate submissions. The main goal of the challenge remains the assessment of the driving proficiency of autonomous agents in realistic traffic situations, as defined in the leaderboard mechanics. Teams will have to complete 10 routes in 2 weather conditions through 5 repetitions.

The challenge follows the same structure and rules defined for the CARLA AD Leaderboard. You can participate in any of the two available tracks: SENSORS and MAP, using the canonical sensors available for the challenge.

Important: You are not allowed to make use of any privilege information offered by the CARLA simulator, including planners or any type of ground truth. Submissions using these features will be rejected and teams will be banned from the platform.

The mechanics of the challenge

The mechanics of the CARLA AD Challenge are the same as the ones defined for the CARLA AD Leaderboard. In a nutshell:

  1. Get familiar with the task by reading the leaderboard introduction.
  2. Learn how to create a new agent by reading the get started guide.
  3. Sign up to the challenge.
  4. Learn how to make a successful submission.
  5. Submit your agent.
  6. Make your submission public before the Challenge closure date (see timeline below).

Important: All submissions made public on the CARLA AD Leaderboard within the Challenge opening and closure dates will be considered for the CARLA AD Challenge.

The top-1 submissions of each track will be invited to present their results at the Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving Workshop. Additionally, all participants are invited to submit a technical report (up to 4 pages) describing their submissions along with a video describing their approach. Based on the novelty and originality of these technical reports, the organization will select up to two teams to present their work at the workshop.

Timeline

Training materials July 1st, 2023
Challenge opening July 1st, 2023
Challenge closure December 1st, 2023
Results notification December 4th, 2023
Video presentation submission December 11th, 2023
Workshop at ML4AD (co-located with NeurIPS) December 14th, 2023

News and help

If you have any doubts or questions about the CARLA AD Challenge or the leaderboard, please contact us using of the following channels:

Previous CARLA AD Challenges

Find more information about previous challenges, along with their results, look here.

  • CARLA Autonomous driving challenge 2022 - hosted at NeurIPS 2022;
  • CARLA Autonomous driving challenge 2021 - hosted at NeurIPS 2021;
  • CARLA Autonomous driving challenge 2020 - hosted at NeurIPS 2020;
  • CARLA Autonomous driving challenge 2019 - hosted at CVPR 2019.