Dr. H. (Holger) Caesar

Dr. H. (Holger) Caesar

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Dr. Holger Caesar is an Assistant Professor in the Intelligent Vehicles group of TU Delft in the Netherlands. Holger's research interests are in the area of Autonomous Vehicle perception and prediction, with a particular focus on scalability of learning and annotation approaches. Previously Holger was a Principal Research Scientist at an autonomous vehicle company called Motional (formerly nuTonomy). There he started 3 teams with 20+ members that focused on Data Annotation, Autolabeling and Data Mining.  Holger received a PhD in Computer Vision from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland under Prof. Dr. Vittorio Ferrari and studied in Germany and Switzerland (KIT Karlsruhe, EPF Lausanne, ETH Zurich). He is best known for developing the influential autonomous driving datasets nuScenes and nuPlan, as well as his contributions to the real-time 3d object detection method PointPillars.

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  • 2025

    Mobility Futures

    Four scenarios for the Dutch mobility system in 2050
    B. Atasoy / Holger Caesar / Joost Ellerbroek / S. Hiemstra-van Mastrigt / M.Y. Maknoon / N. van Oort / A. Psyllidis / S.C. van der Spek / M. Snelder / M. Triggianese / Wijnand Veeneman / Roelof Vos / S.P. Hoogendoorn / S. Hoogendoorn-Lanser / Deborah Nas / N. van Nes / K. Spoor / M.P. Swarte

  • 2025

    NeuroNCAP

    Photorealistic Closed-Loop Safety Testing for Autonomous Driving
    William Ljungbergh / Adam Tonderski / Joakim Johnander / Holger Caesar / Kalle Åström / Michael Felsberg / Christoffer Petersson

  • 2025

    OpenPSG

    Open-Set Panoptic Scene Graph Generation via Large Multimodal Models
    Zijian Zhou / Zheng Zhu / Holger Caesar / Miaojing Shi

  • 2024

    UniBEV: Multi-modal 3D Object Detection with Uniform BEV Encoders for Robustness Against Missing Sensor Modalities

    Shiming Wang / Holger Caesar / Liangliang Nan / J.F.P. Kooij

  • 2023

    Lanelet2 for nuScenes

    Enabling Spatial Semantic Relationships and Diverse Map-based Anchor Paths
    Alexander Naumann / Felix Hertlein / Daniel Grimm / Maximilian Zipf / Steffen Thoma / Achim Rettinger / Lavdim Halilaj / Juergen Luettin / Stefan Schmid / Holger Caesar

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