Sensors, algorithms, and representations for efficient environment perception

that do not require any action from the drivers for a short period of time. Although these systems are still limited and only reliable in certain situations, it shows the general trend: cars will become more and more autonomous. The reasons why people and companies are eagerly anticipating fully autonomous cars are manifold: self-driving...

Pedestrian Detection and Tracking for Mobile Robots in Human Environments

With the performance of current motion planning methods being highly dependent on the quality of the perception system, robust 3D multi-object detection and tracking are vital for autonomous driving applications. Despite all the advancements in 2D and 3D object detectors, robust tracking of pedestrians in dense scenarios is still a challenging...

Traffic Gesture Classification for Intelligent Vehicles

Self-driving vehicles have shown rapid development in recent years and continue to move towards full autonomy. For high or full automation, self-driving vehicles will have to be able to address and solve a broad range of situations, one of which is interaction with traffic agents. For correct and save maneuvering through these situations,...

Acoustic recognition of motorized vehicles with a moving listener

New measures have to be taken to combat fatalities caused by traffic accidents. Intelligent vehicles have the potential to increase safety, but depend heavily on their automated perception ability.<br/>Acoustic perception, an unused sensing modality in this field, has potential for the detection of nearby vehicles, an ability both human drivers...

Deep End-to-end Network for 3D Object Detection in the Context of Autonomous Driving

Nowadays, autonomous driving is a trending topic in the automotive field. One of the most crucial challenges of autonomous driving research is environment perception. Currently, many techniques achieve satisfactory performance in 2D object detection using camera images. Nevertheless, such 2D object detection might be not sufficient for autonomous...