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....

Monocular Vision-Based Pose Estimation of Uncooperative Spacecraft

Activities in outer space have entered a new era of growth, fostering human development and improving key Earth-based applications such as remote sensing, navigation, and telecommunication. The recent creation of SpaceX's Starlink constellation as well as the steep increase in CubeSat launches are expected to revolutionize the way we use space...

Vision-based 3D Human Motion Analysis in a Hierarchical Way

In the last decade, computer vision has drawn more and more attention because of its potential applications in our daily lives, such as health care, education, safety, and training. However the high complexity of many of the vision-based approaches hinders their practical applications, especially in applications where immediate feedback is...

Pose estimation for mobile devices and augmented reality

In this thesis we introduce the reader to the field of Augmented Reality (AR) and describe aspects of an AR system. We show the current uses in treatment of phobias, games, sports and industry. We present the challenges for Optical See-Through Augmented Reality in which the real world is perceived normally by the user and is augmented with...