Edoardo Palladin

My research focuses on End-to-End autonomous driving, learning policies that map raw sensor inputs directly to control actions in a fully differentiable framework. I investigate how to effectively bridge open-loop imitation learning with closed-loop reinforcement learning fine-tuning to improve robustness and distributional generalization. Previously, I worked on multi-modal sensor fusion for 3D perception, combining RGB, gated cameras, LiDAR, and radar for object detection, large-scale pre-training strategies for 3D perception models and reinforcement learning for legged robots and racing simulators. My broader goal is to enable autonomous agents to achieve human-like spatial and dynamic understanding.

📬 Contact

e-mail
languages
English and Italian

🎓 Curriculum vitae

since 2026
Researcher at ZIB

📝 Publications and preprints

Preprints

  1. Ghilotti, F., Palladin, E., Brucker, S., Sigal, A., Bijelic, M., and Heide, F. (2026). TruckDrive: Long-Range Autonomous Highway Driving Dataset. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @misc{2026_FilippoghilottiEtAl_Truckdrivedataset_2603-02413,
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2603.02413},
  arxiv = {arXiv:2603.02413},
  primaryclass = {cs.CV},
  year = {2026},
  author = {Ghilotti, Filippo and Palladin, Edoardo and Brucker, Samuel and Sigal, Adam and Bijelic, Mario and Heide, Felix},
  title = {TruckDrive: Long-Range Autonomous Highway Driving Dataset},
  date = {2026-03-02}
}
  2. Palladin, E., Dietze, R., Narayanan, P., Bijelic, M., and Heide, F. (2025). SAMFusion: Sensor-Adaptive Multimodal Fusion for 3D Object Detection in Adverse Weather. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @misc{2025_EdoardopalladinEtAl_Samfusionmultimodal_2508-16408,
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2508.16408},
  arxiv = {arXiv:2508.16408},
  primaryclass = {cs.CV},
  year = {2025},
  author = {Palladin, Edoardo and Dietze, Roland and Narayanan, Praveen and Bijelic, Mario and Heide, Felix},
  title = {SAMFusion: Sensor-Adaptive Multimodal Fusion for 3D Object Detection in Adverse Weather},
  date = {2025-08-22}
}
  3. Palladin, E., Brucker, S., Ghilotti, F., Narayanan, P., Bijelic, M., and Heide, F. (2025). Self-Supervised Sparse Sensor Fusion for Long Range Perception. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @misc{2025_EdoardopalladinEtAl_Selfsupervisedfusion_2508-13995,
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2508.13995},
  arxiv = {arXiv:2508.13995},
  primaryclass = {cs.CV},
  year = {2025},
  author = {Palladin, Edoardo and Brucker, Samuel and Ghilotti, Filippo and Narayanan, Praveen and Bijelic, Mario and Heide, Felix},
  title = {Self-Supervised Sparse Sensor Fusion for Long Range Perception},
  date = {2025-08-19}
}