Challenges

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 will close 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.

Sponsor may also choose to publish the technical report of 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

• Occupancy and Flow Prediction Challenge

• 3D Semantic Segmentation

Motion challenges

• Motion Prediction

• Sim Agents

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

• 2D Video Panoptic Segmentation

• Pose Estimation

Motion challenges

• Motion Prediction

• Sim Agents

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

• 3D Camera-Only Detection

• 3D Semantic Segmentation

Motion challenges

• Motion Prediction

• Occupancy and Flow Prediction

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

• Real-time 3D Detection

• Real-time 2D Detection

Motion challenges

• Motion Prediction

• Interaction Prediction

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.

Perception challenges

• 3D Detection

• 3D Tracking

• 2D Detection

• 2D Tracking

• Domain Adaptation