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01.08.2023 Abhinav Valada was appointed Full Professor, Chair of Autonomous Intelligent Systems.
01.06.2023 Abhinav Valada received the 2023 IEEE RAS Early Career Award in Robotics and Automation.
20.01.2023 Abhinav Valada conferred Honorary Professorship at Amity University.
23.10.2022 Daniel Honerkamp, Tim Welschehold, and Abhinav Valada won the Best Paper Award for their work on "Learning Navigation for Arbitrary Mobile Manipulation Motions in Unseen and Dynamic Env." at the IROS 2022 Workshop on Mobile Manipulation and Embodied Intelligence.
13.08.2022 Rohit Mohan and Abhinav Valada won the Most Innovative Research Award for their work on "Amodal Panoptic Segmentation" at the AutoSens 2022 conference.
25.04.2022 Abhinav Valada receives the NVIDIA Research Award.
22.04.2022 We are co-organizing the Workshop on Perception and Navigation for Autonomous Robotics in Unstructured and Dynamic Environments and the Tutorial on Open and Trustworthy Deep Learning for Robotics at IROS 2022.
03.02.2022 We are co-organizing the Workshop on 3D-Deep Learning for Automated Driving at IV 2022.
14.12.2021 Abhinav Valada was awarded an AI grant and accepted into the renowned Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
13.12.2021 The University of Freiburg features our work on holistic scene understanding for automated vehicles in the online magazine.
15.10.2021 We are co-organizing the AI Driving Olympics at NeurIPS 2021.
20.06.2021 Abdelrahman Younes, Daniel Honerkamp, Tim Welschehold, and Abhinav Valada won the Embodied AI SoundSpaces Challenge at CVPR 2021.
01.04.2021 We are co-organizing workshops on 3D-Deep Learning for Automated Driving and Scene Understanding in Unstructured Environments .
24.02.2021 Abhinav Valada is appointed as Chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Robot Learning.
10.12.2020 Abhinav Valada received the Silver in the AutoSens 2020 Vision Award for being a visionary and inspiring progress throughout the vehicle perception ecosystem.
30.11.2020 Abhinav Valada was elected as a Scholar of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Society.
28.08.2020 The lightweight EfficientPS by Rohit Mohan and Abhinav Valada wins the Robust Vision Challenge 2020 Panoptic Segmentation Track, that was held in conjunction with ECCV2020.
30.07.2020 Robot Learning Lab gets support from the Eva Mayr-Stihl Stiftung through a research grant.
10.05.2020 Our EfficientPS is ranked #1 for panoptic segmentation on the popularly challenging Cityscapes benchmark leaderboard and advances the state-of-the-art on KITTI, Mapillary Vistas, and IDD.
04.03.2020 We are organizing a workshop on Self-Supervised Robot Learning at the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS’2020).
15.01.2020 We are co-organizing a workshop on 3D-Deep Learning for Automated Driving at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV’2020).
19.12.2019 Abhinav Valada becomes a member of the BrainLinks-BrainTools center, funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics, Science and Arts of Baden-Württemberg.
11.12.2019 The University of Freiburg was selected as one of 17 ELLIS centers of excellence in machine learning in Europe. Abhinav Valada is a faculty in the newly established Freiburg unit.
01.08.2019 Abhinav Valada will serve as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal.