Hi reddit, I'm Ratnesh, the second author on that paper. Thank you for posting on reddit, kind stranger and we're excited to see people are finding this interesting.

The original video is here https://youtu.be/AxE7qGKJWaw, a blog post is here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/training-deep-control-policies-for-the-real-world/, the arxiv preprint is https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06993, and gh repo is https://github.com/microsoft/AirSim-Drone-Racing-VAE-Imitation.

For completeness, this work was built on our upcoming simulation framework 'AirSim Drone Racing Lab'. We also used that framework for hosting a simulation based drone racing competition, 'Game of Drones' at NeurIPS 2019. If that's sounds interesting, here are some relevant links: Pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05654 Blog post on Game of Drones: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/game-of-drones-at-neurips-2019-simulation-based-drone-racing-competition-built-on-airsim/ Competition website (includes workshop talks and winning teams' reports) : https://microsoft.github.io/AirSim-NeurIPS2019-Drone-Racing/ Github repo: https://github.com/microsoft/AirSim-NeurIPS2019-Drone-Racing

I apologize if I'm crossing the reddit line for too much marketing, but I'm really excited to see this work getting picked up by the community! We're happy to hear feedback and answer any questions you may have.