Sensor data fusion for automated driving: Toward robust perception in adverse weather conditions

The aim of the thesis is to develop methods and algorithms for the development of a robust perception system that is capable of dealing with adverse weather conditions. Robust environmental perception is important in order to guarantee safety for the automated vehicle and the road users in the neighborhood. To create a robust perception system,...

Radar Based Road User Detection in Intelligent Vehicles

This thesis addresses the problem of object detection with automotive radar sensors in the field of intelligent vehicles with special attention to vulnerable road users: pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists. It is not the goal of this work to improve the hardware design or signal processing algorithms of the radar sensors themselves, but to...

Visual Detection and Pose Estimation of Vulnerable Road Users for Automated Driving

This thesis addresses the topic of visual person detection and pose estimation. While these tasks are relevant for a broad range of applications, this thesis focuses on the domain of intelligent vehicles in urban traffic scenes. This domain is particularly interesting due to specific challenges related to visual perception from a moving vehicle....

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...

Context-based Cyclist Path Prediction: Crafted and Learned Models for Intelligent Vehicles

This thesis addresses the problem of path prediction for cyclists.<br/>Instead of solely focusing on how to predict the future trajectory based on previous position measurements, this thesis investigates how to leverage additional contextual information that can inform on the future intent of cyclists.<br/>This thesis does this with the...

On-road Assessment of Driver Workload and Awareness in Automated Vehicles

Problem Definition According to the World Health Organization, traffic injuries have become the eighth cause of death and the leading cause among children and young adults. Human error, and in particular perceptual error, is among the most frequently reported causes of road fatalities. The desire to reduce traffic fatalities has led to the...