Hi! I am a 3rd year PhD student at Texas A&M University, advised by Prof. Shu Kong and Prof. Gaurav Pandey. I earned my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. My current research is primarily centered on computer vision, with a secondary focus on language models for self-driving car applications.
🔥 News
- 2024.10 🎉🎉 Successfully demonstrated our first remote perception capabilities for the Mcity Demo Project [Link].
- 2024.08 🎉🎉 Joined Prof. Shu Kong’s Computer Vision Lab.
- 2024.07 🎉🎉 Completed approximately 20 miles in autonomous mode under rainy weather conditions during the first AVA project demo on a public road.
- 2024.06 🎉🎉 SwinMTL paper was accepted to IROS’24 [code].
📝 Publications
IROS 2024
Pardis Taghavi, Reza Langari, Gaurav Pandey
- A simple and effective multi-task learning framework that allows concurrent depth estimation and semantic segmentation using a single camera and without compromising computational efficiency.
Projects
AVA: Autonomous Vehicles for All
- Lead of the Perception Team : Developed a perception system tailored for diverse route scenarios, including both urban and rural environments.
MCITY 2.0 USE CASE AV PERCEPTION
- 3D point cloud generation and clustering techniques for improved object detection and scene understanding from a single RGB image.
- Validated algorithm outputs through simulation and remote operation on a real autonomous test vehicle at MCity 2.0.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2024.06 NSF Subaward for Autonomous Vehicle Perception Testing at MCity.
- 2021.09 Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Politecnico di Torino University.
- 2018.09 Won TOPolito Scholarship: Awarded to the top 10 students of the engineering school.
📖 Education
- 2022.01 - present, PhD Student, Texas A&M University
- 2018.09 - 2021.09, Bachelor’s Degree, Politecnico di Torino University