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Roger Girgis

5 accepted papers

2025

Scenario Dreamer: Vectorized Latent Diffusion for Generating Driving Simulation Environments

CVPR 2025poster

We introduce Scenario Dreamer, a fully data-driven generative simulator for autonomous vehicle planning that generates both the initial traffic scene--comprising a lane graph and agent bounding boxes--and closed-loop agent behaviours. Existing methods for generating driving simulation environments e…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

CtRL-Sim: Reactive and Controllable Driving Agents with Offline Reinforcement Learning

CoRL 2024poster

Evaluating autonomous vehicle stacks (AVs) in simulation typically involves replaying driving logs from real-world recorded traffic. However, agents replayed from offline data are not reactive and hard to intuitively control. Existing approaches address these challenges by proposing methods that rel…

Cited by 6SourceScholar
2022

Direct Behavior Specification via Constrained Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2022spotlight

The standard formulation of Reinforcement Learning lacks a practical way of specifying what are admissible and forbidden behaviors. Most often, practitioners go about the task of behavior specification by manually engineering the reward function, a counter-intuitive process that requires several ite…

2022

Latent Variable Sequential Set Transformers for Joint Multi-Agent Motion Prediction

ICLR 2022spotlight

Robust multi-agent trajectory prediction is essential for the safe control of robotic systems. A major challenge is to efficiently learn a representation that approximates the true joint distribution of contextual, social, and temporal information to enable planning. We propose Latent Variable Seque…

2019

Navigation Agents for the Visually Impaired: A Sidewalk Simulator and Experiments

CoRL 2019

Millions of blind and visually-impaired (BVI) people navigate urban environments everyday, using smartphones for high-level path-planning and white canes or guide dogs for local information. However, many BVI people still struggle to travel to new places. In our endeavour to create a navigation assi