WAM-AD

1st Workshop on World Action Models for Autonomous Driving @ WACV 2027

WAM-AD @ WACV 2027

About the Workshop

The first WAM-AD workshop will convene researchers in computer vision, autonomous driving, generative modeling, and machine learning who are working toward vehicles that can both predict how a traffic scene changes under intervention and produce executable driving actions. World Action Models (WAMs) couple action-conditioned world modeling with policy learning, bridging generative video, 3D/4D scene understanding, motion forecasting, planning, and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

WAM-AD will be a half-day, in-person, single-track workshop at WACV 2027 (Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista, FL). A single-track program will combine invited talks, presentations of all accepted papers, structured Q&A, and a closing community discussion.

We welcome algorithms, systems, datasets, evaluations, and critical analyses on topics including but not limited to:

The preliminary schedule is available here.

Call for Papers

Accepted papers will appear in the WACV 2027 Workshop Proceedings. Submissions will follow the WACV format and undergo double-blind peer review through OpenReview. We will accept archival regular papers of 5–8 pages (including references). Every accepted paper will receive a 10-minute oral presentation slot, including Q&A.

Submit papers on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/WACV/2027/Workshop/WAM-AD. Please refer to the Call for Papers for more details.

Call for Speakers

We invite researchers and industry experts to share their work on world action models, autonomous driving, and related topics as invited speakers at WAM-AD. Please submit your information via the Call for Speakers form.

Call for Reviewers

We welcome volunteers to join our program committee and help review workshop submissions. If you are interested, please sign up through the Call for Reviewers form.


Important Dates


Keynote Speakers

TBD


Program Committee

TBD


Organizers

Jiaru Zhang

Jiaru Zhang

Purdue University

Luyang Jiang

Luyang Jiang

Purdue University

Can Cui

Can Cui

Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

Juanwu Lu

Juanwu Lu

Toyota Research Institute

Sung-Yeon Park

Sung-Yeon Park

Purdue University

Juntong Peng

Juntong Peng

Purdue University

Zichong Yang

Zichong Yang

Purdue University

Yi Xu

Yi Xu

Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

Yitian Zhang

Yitian Zhang

Northeastern University

Ruining Yang

Ruining Yang

Northeastern University

Xishun Liao

Xishun Liao

University of Central Florida (UCF)

Ziran Wang

Ziran Wang

Purdue University


Contact

For any questions, please contact luyang@purdue.edu.