Simulation and Domain Adaptation at Cruise - Ashish Shrivastava CVPR SDAS 2023
Simulation plays a crucial role in the development of autonomous vehicles at Cruise as they expand to new platforms and cities. By utilizing high-fidelity virtual environments, they can effectively simulate a wide range of scenarios, including challenging edge cases, adverse weather conditions, and rare events that are seldom encountered in real-world situations.
A key highlight of the talk is the introduction of a novel method called AptSim2Real: Approximately-paired translation for Sim-to-Real translation, which bridges the sim-to-real domain gap and has proven to be very successful in improving the quality of synthetic data at Cruise.