Title:	Perception for Autonomous Vehicles
DNr:	Berzelius-2026-199
Project Type:	LiU Berzelius
Principal Investigator:	John Folkesson <johnf@kth.se>
Affiliation:	Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
Duration:	2026-07-01 – 2027-01-01
Classification:	20201
Homepage:	https://smarc.se
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Abstract

Within the Research group, we currently have 4 PhD students. 3 are working on perception for autonomous driving while one is working on perception for autonomous underwater vehicles. Two of those are WASP PhD students, and the other two are affiliated WASP PHD students. For autonomous driving Yi Yang will work on using neural nets for prediction and scene understanding, Jesper Ericsson (and Maciej Wozniak) will work on world modeling from sensor data and fine-tuning VLMs for autonomous driving perception. Qingwen Zhang will work on scene flow estimation. For perception of underwater vehicles, we will continue to focus on different sonars, including multibeam, sidescan and forward-looking sonars. Shekhar Upadhyay will begin processing sonar data using neural representations during the fall as we begin using newly purchased interferometric sidescan sonars, small multibeam echo sounders, and newly refurbished vehicles.