Previous Challenges

CARLA Challenge 2020

The CARLA Autonomous Driving Challenge 2020 was organized as part of the Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving Workshop at NeurIPS 2020. Being open to any participant from academia and industry, you only needed to sign up on the CARLA AD Leaderboard in order to participate in the challenge.

Results and retrospective

Video summary of the CARLA Challenge 2020 and talks from the winning teams:

Congratulations to the winning teams in the SENSORS modality:

Team Submission Driving score Route completion Infraction penalty Collisions pedestrians Collisions vehicles Collisions layout Red light infractions Stop sign infractions Off-road infractions Route deviations Route timeouts Agent blocked Duration
Units % % [0, 1] Infractions/Km Infractions/Km Infractions/Km Infractions/Km Infractions/Km Infractions/Km Infractions/Km Infractions/Km Infractions/Km Minutes
1st MaRLn MaRLn 24.98 46.97 0.52 0.00 2.33 2.47 0.55 0.00 1.82 1.44 0.79 0.94 9035.73
2nd Anonymous Attention Ensemble (NEAT + TransFuser) 13.49 23.2 0.72 0.02 2.06 0.49 1.50 0.0 3.26 0.19 0.0 8.59 452.42
3rd LBC Learning by Cheating (CoRL 2019) 8.94 17.54 0.73 0.0 0.4 1.16 0.71 0.0 1.52 0.03 0.0 4.69 1609.92

Important: The MAP modality is declared deserted this year.

We would like to thank all teams for their participation in the challenge. Remember that the CARLA Autonomous Driving Challenge will reopen in 2021 with new exciting challenges.

Statistics
  • +45 teams participated in the challenge.
  • +6,000 hours of driving simulation.
  • +7,000 Km driven in total.
  • Top-5 submissions registered average infractions per kilometer in the [0.95 - 1.7] range.
  • Road departure (off-road) and collisions with other vehicles were the main infractions for top-5 submissions.

Timeline

Challenge opening October 6th 2020, 00:00 PDT
Challenge closure November 25th 2020, 23:00 PDT
Winners of each track are notified November 30th 2020, 23:00 PDT
Technical report submission November 29th 2020, 23:00 PDT
Accepted technical report notification November 30th 2020, 23:00 PDT
Video presentation submission December 6th 2020, 23:00 PDT
Results presented at ML4AD workshop December 11th, 2020

CARLA Challenge 2019

The CARLA Challenge was also held during 2019. Find more information about the CARLA AD Challenge 2019, held at CVPR 2019.