Challenges
The 2025 Waymo Open Dataset Challenges are now live! We are inviting researchers to participate in four challenges involving our datasets.
Please review the Waymo Open Dataset Challenges 2025 Official Rules. To participate, еvery member of each team must meet the eligibility requirements and agree to the Official Rules.
2025 Challenge Winners
We're thrilled to announce the finalists* of the 2025 WOD Challenges!
Vision-based End-to-End Driving Challenge | Method and Technical Report | Authors | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
First Place | Lan Feng, Alexandre Alahi | EPFL | |
Second Place | Long Nguyen, Micha Fauth, Bernhard Jaeger, Daniel Dauner, Maximilian Igl, Andreas Geiger, Kashyap Chitta | University of Tübingen, Tübingen AI Center, NVIDIA Research | |
Third Place | Sungjin Park, Gwangik Shin, Jaeha Song, Sumin Lee, Hyukju Shon, Byounggun Park, Jinhee Na, Hawook Jeong, Soonmin Hwang | Hanyang University, RideFlux Inc | |
Special Mention | Luke Rowe, Rodrigue de Shaetzen, Roger Girgis, Christopher Pal, Liam Paull | Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Université de Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal, CIFAR AI Chair |
Interaction Prediction Challenge | Method and Technical Report | Authors | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
First Place | Zikang Zhou, Haibo Hu, Yifan Zhang, Yung-Hui Li, Jianping Wang, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue | City University of Hong Kong, Hon Hai Research Institute, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence | |
Second Place | Jiawei Sun, Xibin Yue, Jiahui Li, Tianle Shen, Chengram Yuan, Shuo Sun, Sheng Guo, Quanyun Zhou, Marcelo H. Ang Jr | National University of Singapore, Xiaomi EV | |
Third Place | Haochen Liu, Li Chen, Hongyang Li, Chen Lv | Nanyang Technology University, The University of Hong Kong | |
Honorable Mention | Royden Wagner, Ömer Şahin Taş, Felix Hauser, Marlon Steiner, Dominik Strutz, Abhishek Vivekanandan, Carlos Fernandez, Christoph Stiller | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, FZI Research Center for Information Technology |
Sim Agents Challenge | Method and Technical Report | Authors | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
First Place | Zhiyuan Zhang, Xiaosong Jia, Guanyu Chen, Qifeng Li, Junchi Yan | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | |
Second Place | Ehsan Ahmadi, Hunter Schofield | University of Alberta, York University | |
Third Place | Christian Rössert, Johannes Drever, Lukas Brostek | cogniBIT GmbH | |
Honorable Mention | Longzhong Lin, Xuewu Lin, Kechun Xu, Haojian Lu, Lichao Huang, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang | Zhejiang University, Horizon Robotics |
Scenario Generation Challenge | Method and Technical Report | Authors | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
First Place | Sen Wang, Xu Jianrong, Xiaoyong Zhang, Fangqiao Hu, Kechen Zhu, Zhijun Huang, Jiaxiang Zhu, JiaChen Luo, Yong Zhou, Zhenwu Chen | Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Center | |
Second Place | Jianrong Xu, Baicang Guo, Xingchen Liu, Wei Hong, Liangliang Li, Chenyun Xi, Yewei Shi, Peng Wang, Ruohai Di | Tongji University, Yanshan University, Xi'an Technological University | |
Third Place | Micha Fauth, Long Nguyen, Bernhard Jaeger, Daniel Dauner, Maximilian Igl, Andreas Geiger, Kashyap Chitta | University of Tübingen, Tübingen AI Center, NVIDIA Research | |
Honorable Mention | Zhenghao Peng, Yuxin Liu, Bolei Zhou | University of California, Los Angeles |
Visit the individual challenge pages from the links below for a detailed breakdown of the results in the challenge leaderboards. Please note that the detailed leaderboard includes all participants, but only those who met the eligibility criteria and submitted a technical report are recognized as winners.
* Finalist rankings are provisional until completion of all eligibility verification checks.
2025 WOD Challenges
Interaction Prediction Given agents' tracks for the past 1 second on a corresponding map, predict the joint future positions of 2 interacting agents for 8 seconds into the future.
Sim Agents Given the agent tracks for the past 1 second on a corresponding map, and optionally the associated lidar for this time interval, simulate 32 realistic joint futures for all the agents in the scene.
Scenario Generation Given one-second pose history of the ego (or autonomous) vehicle on a provided map, generate 32 realistic scenarios with new agents and their trajectories.
Vision-based End-to-End Driving Given the ego status history and surrounding camera images for the past 12 seconds, predict 5-second waypoints at the specified moment.
All four challenges closed on May 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.
Official Challenge Rules
Please see the Waymo Open Dataset Challenges 2025 Official Rules here.
Awards for Each Challenge
First place: $10,000 USD and a certificate.
Second place: $5,000 USD and a certificate.
Third place: $3,000 USD and a certificate.
We may choose to publish the technical report for select submissions, including the first, second, and third place submissions.
Additionally, teams with the best performing or noteworthy submissions may be invited to present their work at the Workshop on Autonomous Driving at CVPR in June 2025. Invitations may be extended both to teams using pre-trained weights from open source models, and teams not using them.
Past challenges
2024 WOD Challenges
The awards for the 2024 WOD Challenges (listed below) have already been given out, but the challenge pages and results are still available.
Perception challenges
Motion challenges
2023 WOD Challenges
The awards for the 2023 WOD Challenges (listed below) have already been given out, but the challenge pages and results are still available.
Perception challenges
Motion challenges
2022 WOD Challenges
The awards for the 2022 WOD Challenges (listed below) have already been given out, but the challenge pages and results are still available.
Perception challenges
Motion challenges
2021 WOD Challenges
The awards for the 2021 Challenges (listed below) have already been given out, but the challenge pages and results are still available.
Perception challenges
Motion challenges
2020 WOD Challenges
The awards for the 2020 Challenges (listed below) have already been given out, but the challenge pages and results are still available.