Driver and Pedestrian Mutual Awareness for Path Prediction in Intelligent Vehicles

This thesis addresses the sensor-based perception of driver and pedestrian to improve joint path prediction of ego-vehicle and pedestrian based on mutual awareness in the domain of intelligent vehicles.<br/><br/>According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than half of global traffic deaths are among Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), such...

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....