CVPR 2025 Workshop - Perception for Industrial Robotics Automation (PIRA)

About the Workshop

Welcome to the Perception for Industrial Robotics Automation (PIRA) Workshop! This event brings together advanced computer vision research and practical industrial robotics. Even with many breakthroughs, solving real-world tasks like robotic bin picking is still challenging. At PIRA, we focus on topics like 3D scene understanding, 3D vision, egocentric and embodied AI, foundation models, robot learning, and synthetic data. Our goal is to connect researchers and industry experts to build more reliable, faster, and scalable industrial solutions.

Perception Challenge for Bin Picking

We invite you to join our Intrinsic Bin Picking Challenge, featuring $60k in prizes! The competition runs from February 1st to May 1st, and winners will present their solutions at the workshop.

This challenge is organized by OpenCV in collaboration with Intrinsic, BOP, Orbbec, and the University of Hawaii.

Learn More About the Challenge

Invited Speakers

Vincent Vanhoucke

Waymo

Vincent is a Distinguished Engineer at Waymo, whose work spans robotics, machine learning, and visual perception. He founded and led the Robotics Team at Google and co-founded the Conference on Robot Learning. Vincent has received multiple awards and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Kartik Iyer

TRUMPF Smart Factory

With over 20 years in the fabrication, Kartik directs the TRUMPF Smart Factory in Chicago, overseeing the integration of advanced robotics and automation. His focus is on using these technologies to transform manufacturing processes, driving efficiency and precision in real-time production.

Bowen Wen

NVIDIA

A Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, Bowen specializes in robotic perception and computer vision, earning accolades for his impactful research, including a best paper nomination at RSS '22. He has several impactful papers published in CVPR, RSS, ICRA.

Kartik Venkataraman

Intrinsic (Alphabet)

As Head of Perception R&D at Intrinsic, Kartik is pioneering work in plenoptic imaging, neural rendering, and multi-view approaches for industrial and consumer applications. His expertise spans computer vision, deep learning, and computational imaging, with a background that includes founding two imaging startups.

Schedule

Time	Event
9:00-9:10a	Opening Remarks & Welcome
9:10-9:40a	Vincent Vanhoucke
9:45-10:15a	Kartik Iyer
10:20-10:50a	Bowen Wen
10:55-11:25a	Kartik Venkataraman
11:30a-12:00p	Perception Challenge for Bin Picking Results and Awards
12:00-12:10p	BOP Industrial Challenge 2025
12:10-1:00p	Presentations of winning teams

Organizers

Vage Taamazyan – Senior Imaging Scientist at Intrinsic (Alphabet)
Agastya Kalra – Senior Staff Engineer at Intrinsic (Alphabet)
Aarrushi Shandilya – Computational Imaging Engineer at Intrinsic (Alphabet)
Huaijin Chen, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Krzysztof Choromanski, Ph.D. – Leads the Vision Team at GDM Robotics
Martin Sundermeyer – Research Scientist at Google
Phil Nelson – Director of Content & Creative at the Open Source Vision Foundation (OpenCV)
Satya Mallick, Ph.D. – CEO of OpenCV.org and Big Vision LLC
Stan Birchfield, Ph.D. – Senior Research Manager at NVIDIA
Tim Salzmann – Research Scientist at Intrinsic (Alphabet)
Tomas Hodan – Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs
Yang Qian – Ph.D. candidate at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa