Edward Schmerling | NVIDIA ASPIRE Group https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/author/edward-schmerling/ Edward Schmerling Wowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-usWed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/images/logo_hu2fe6632db44d28c9b9d53edd3914c1d6_112452_300x300_fit_lanczos_3.png Edward Schmerling https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/author/edward-schmerling/ SafeVL: Driving Safety Evaluation via Meticulous Reasoning in Vision Language Models https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/ma.cao.etal.arxiv2025/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/ma.cao.etal.arxiv2025/ Sim2Val: Leveraging Correlation Across Test Platforms for Variance-Reduced Metric Estimation https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/luo.yang.etal.corl2025/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/luo.yang.etal.corl2025/ Diagnostic Runtime Monitoring with Martingales https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/hindy.luo.etal.rss2025/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/hindy.luo.etal.rss2025/ Tokenize the World into Object-level Knowledge to Address Long-tail Events in Autonomous Driving https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/tian.li.etal.corl2024/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/tian.li.etal.corl2024/ Language-Image Models with 3D Understanding https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cho.ivanovic.etal.iclr2025/ Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cho.ivanovic.etal.iclr2025/ Refining Obstacle Perception Safety Zones via Maneuver-Based Decomposition https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/topan.chen.etal.iv2023/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 10:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/topan.chen.etal.iv2023/ Learning Autonomous Vehicle Safety Concepts from Demonstrations https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/leung.veer.etal.acc2023/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/leung.veer.etal.acc2023/ Towards Data-Driven Synthesis of Autonomous Vehicle Safety Concepts https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/leung.bajcsy.etal.arxiv2022/ Fri, 20 May 2022 10:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/leung.bajcsy.etal.arxiv2022/ Interaction-Dynamics-Aware Perception Zones for Obstacle Detection Safety Evaluation https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/topan.leung.etal.iv2022/ Sat, 23 Oct 2021 10:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/topan.leung.etal.iv2022/