In this paper, we present a framework to control a self-driving car by fusing raw information from RGB images and depth maps. A deep neural network architecture is used for mapping the vision and depth information, respectively, to steering commands. This fusion of information from two sensor sources allows to provide …
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DASC combines social media and car sensors to improve disaster response.
problem Inconsistent reliability and inconsistent availability of human sensors.
method Hybrid social-car sensing system using game theory, feedback control, and MDP.
result DASC improves detection accuracy and efficiency in disaster response.
Paper tackles drowsy driving by learning from weakly labeled car acceleration data.
problem Lack of labeled data for estimating driver drowsiness.
method Weakly supervised learning, scalable stochastic optimization.
result Algorithm learns from weakly labeled data, outperforming baseline methods.
In this paper we propose a novel observer-based method to improve the safety and security of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) transportation. The proposed method combines model-based signal filtering and anomaly detection methods. Specifically, we use adaptive extended Kalman filter (AEKF) to smooth sensor reading…
Data generated by cars is growing at an unprecedented scale. As cars gradually become part of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, several stakeholders discover the value of in-vehicle network logs containing the measurements of the multitude of sensors deployed within the car. This wealth of data is also expected t…
As automotive electronics continue to advance, cars are becoming more and more reliant on sensors to perform everyday driving operations. These sensors are omnipresent and help the car navigate, reduce accidents, and provide comfortable rides. However, they can also be used to learn about the drivers themselves. In thi…
Lidar based Detection and Classification of Pedestrians and Vehicles Using Machine Learning Methodscs.CV
The goal of this paper is to classify objects mapped by LiDAR sensor into different classes such as vehicles, pedestrians and bikers. Utilizing a LiDAR-based object detector and Neural Networks-based classifier, a novel real-time object detection is presented essentially with respect to aid self-driving vehicles in rec…
Model-free reinforcement learning has recently been shown to successfully learn navigation policies from raw sensor data. In this work, we address the problem of learning driving policies for an autonomous agent in a high-fidelity simulator. Building upon recent research that applies deep reinforcement learning to navi…
Modern vehicles are equipped with increasingly complex sensors. These sensors generate large volumes of data that provide opportunities for modeling and analysis. Here, we are interested in exploiting this data to learn aspects of behaviors and the road network associated with individual drivers. Our dataset is collect…
In multimodal traffic monitoring, we gather traffic statistics for distinct transportation modes, such as pedestrians, cars and bicycles, in order to analyze and improve people's daily mobility in terms of safety and convenience. On account of its robustness to bad light and adverse weather conditions, and inherent spe…
For many automated driving functions, a highly accurate perception of the vehicle environment is a crucial prerequisite. Modern high-resolution radar sensors generate multiple radar targets per object, which makes these sensors particularly suitable for the 2D object detection task. This work presents an approach to de…
Camera and lidar are important sensor modalities for robotics in general and self-driving cars in particular. The sensors provide complementary information offering an opportunity for tight sensor-fusion. Surprisingly, lidar-only methods outperform fusion methods on the main benchmark datasets, suggesting a gap in the …
This paper improves context-aware recommender systems by selecting and incorporating relevant low-dimensional contextual information.
problem Generating accurate recommendations is not enough; contextual information can cause issues like battery drain and privacy.
method Developed a feature-selection algorithm based on genetic algorithms to reduce context dimensions while maintaining explainability.
result The approach improves accuracy and transparency in recommendations, outperforming state-of-the-art models.
We leverage automatic differentiation (AD) and probabilistic programming to develop an end-to-end optimization algorithm for batch triangulation of a large number of unknown objects. Given noisy detections extracted from noisily geo-located street level imagery without depth information, we jointly estimate the number …
In recent years, car makers and tech companies have been racing towards self driving cars. It seems that the main parameter in this race is who will have the first car on the road. The goal of this paper is to add to the equation two additional crucial parameters. The first is standardization of safety assurance --- wh…
A kinematics of the motion of a car is reformulated in terms of the theory of gauge potentials (connection on principal bundle). E(2)-connection originates in the no-slipping contact of the car with a road.
Platoon trajectories generation: A unidirectional interconnected LSTM-based car following modelcs.LG
Car following models have been widely applied and made remarkable achievements in traffic engineering. However, the traffic micro-simulation accuracy of car following models in a platoon level, especially during traffic oscillations, still needs to be enhanced. Rather than using traditional individual car following mod…
New security patch for object tracking in self-driving cars mitigates vulnerabilities.
problem Vulnerability of object tracking in self-driving cars, especially Kalman Filter-based trackers.
method Adaptive strategy to balance focus on observations and predictions based on deviation anomaly index.
result Certified effectiveness against a generalized hijacking attack model.
We apply variational inference to learn vehicle trajectory parameters from noisy data.
problem Learning parameters for vehicle trajectory estimation from noisy measurements.
method Gaussian variational inference with parameter learning in a motion and sensor model context.
result High-quality state estimates achieved even with outliers and false loop closures.
Ridesourcing platforms like Uber and Didi are getting more and more popular around the world. However, unauthorized ridesourcing activities taking advantages of the sharing economy can greatly impair the healthy development of this emerging industry. As the first step to regulate on-demand ride services and eliminate b…
Shifts dataset evaluates uncertainty in real-world tasks across modalities.
problem Lack of standard datasets for evaluating uncertainty estimation and robustness to distributional shift.
method Proposes Shifts Dataset for evaluation of uncertainty estimates and robustness to distributional shift across tabular, audio, text, and sensor data.
result Baseline results for tabular weather prediction, machine translation, and SDC vehicle motion prediction.
Log-Gaussian Gamma Processes for Training Bayesian Neural Networks in Raman and CARS Spectroscopiesstat.AP
Proposes a method for training Bayesian neural networks using synthetic data from Raman and CARS spectra.
problem Limited real observations in Raman and CARS spectroscopy.
method Log-Gaussian Gamma Processes and Bayesian Neural Networks.
result Trained Bayesian neural networks provide accurate estimates of Raman and CARS spectra with uncertainty quantification.
A car as parabolic geometrymath.DG
We show that a car, viewed as a nonholonomic system, provides an example of a flat parabolic geometry of type , where is a Borel parabolic subgroup in . We discuss the relations of this geometry of a car with the geometry of circles in the plane (a low dimensional Lie sph…
This study proposes a framework for human-like autonomous car-following planning based on deep reinforcement learning (deep RL). Historical driving data are fed into a simulation environment where an RL agent learns from trial and error interactions based on a reward function that signals how much the agent deviates fr…
We analyze an exhaustive data-set of new-cars monthly sales. The set refers to 10 years of Spanish sales of more than 6500 different car model configurations and a total of 10M sold cars, from January 2007 to January 2017. We find that for those model configurations with a monthly market-share higher than 0.1% the sale…
RankNet forecasts car racing positions with improved accuracy and stability.
problem Forecasting rank positions in car racing, especially considering pit stops.
method Cause-effect decomposition in RankNet, incorporating probabilistic forecasting.
result RankNet outperforms baselines significantly, improving MAE by over 10%.
Self-training improves gradual domain adaptation with unlabeled data.
problem Improving machine learning models' adaptability to gradually shifting data distributions.
method Proved upper bounds on self-training error, highlighted the importance of regularization and label sharpening, and demonstrated algorithmic insights.
result Self-training works well for gradual shifts, especially with small Wasserstein-infinity distance.
Method verifies if observed data fits Lévy-Driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
problem Verifying if observed data fits Lévy-Driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
method Estimating parameters and approximating the driving process to test CAR(1) Lévy-driven hypothesis.
result Demonstrates method's effectiveness through simulations and real data examples.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in a wide variety of tasks in computer vision. However, interpreting CNNs still remains a challenge. This is mainly due to the large number of parameters in these networks. Here, we investigate the role of compression and particularly pruning fil…
This literature review focuses on three important aspects of an autonomous car system: tracking (assessing the identity of the actors such as cars, pedestrians or obstacles in a sequence of observations), prediction (predicting the future motion of surrounding vehicles in order to navigate through various traffic scena…
Semantic segmentation maps can be used as input to models for maneuvering the controls of a car. However, not all labels may be necessary for making the control decision. One would expect that certain labels such as road lanes or sidewalks would be more critical in comparison with labels for vegetation or buildings whi…
GPLVMF improves CARS performance by addressing overfitting and context importance.
problem Overfitting and lack of automatic context importance determination in GP-based CARS.
method GPLVMF applies a non-zero mean function and real-valued latent space to improve GP model performance.
result Significant improvement in performance on real datasets and automatic context importance determination.
This work builds a sensor graph from DC sensors for anomaly detection.
problem Anomaly detection in data centers with complex sensor relationships.
method Data-driven pipeline (ts2graph) to build a sensor graph from sensor time series.
result Graph neural network (GNN) outperforms existing methods by 2-3 times in anomaly detection.
Predict steering angles of self-driving cars from images.
problem Predicting steering angles for self-driving cars using image data.
method Used deep learning techniques like Transfer Learning, 3D CNN, LSTM, and ResNet to predict steering angles.
result Both models placed in the top ten of Udacity's challenge.
Study tackles imbalanced data in car insurance claims prediction.
problem Predicting rare events (claims) in car insurance with imbalanced data.
method Various machine learning techniques (logistic-regression, decision tree, random forest, xgBoost, feed-forward network) applied to imbalanced dataset.
result Comparison of machine learning algorithms' performance in claim occurrence prediction.
EBM improves car insurance claim severity and frequency prediction while maintaining interpretability.
problem Balancing predictive accuracy and interpretability in insurance claim modeling.
method Combines GAM and cyclic gradient boosting, providing interpretable predictions.
result EBM outperforms benchmark models in claim severity and frequency prediction.
Modeling Stochastic Microscopic Traffic Behaviors: a Physics Regularized Gaussian Process Approachstat.ML
A new model captures car-following and lane-changing behaviors in traffic.
problem Modeling stochastic microscopic traffic behaviors.
method Physics regularized Gaussian process (PRGP) approach.
result The proposed model outperforms previous methods in estimation precision.
Uncertainty Quantification with Statistical Guarantees in End-to-End Autonomous Driving Controlcs.LG
Deep neural network controllers for autonomous driving have recently benefited from significant performance improvements, and have begun deployment in the real world. Prior to their widespread adoption, safety guarantees are needed on the controller behaviour that properly take account of the uncertainty within the mod…
Subspace clustering aims to find groups of similar objects (clusters) that exist in lower dimensional subspaces from a high dimensional dataset. It has a wide range of applications, such as analysing high dimensional sensor data or DNA sequences. However, existing algorithms have limitations in finding clusters in non-…
A model used for velocity control during car following was proposed based on deep reinforcement learning (RL). To fulfil the multi-objectives of car following, a reward function reflecting driving safety, efficiency, and comfort was constructed. With the reward function, the RL agent learns to control vehicle speed in …
The majority of contemporary object-tracking approaches do not model interactions between objects. This contrasts with the fact that objects' paths are not independent: a cyclist might abruptly deviate from a previously planned trajectory in order to avoid colliding with a car. Building upon HART, a neural class-agnost…
Recently, the online car-hailing service, Didi, has emerged as a leader in the sharing economy. Used by passengers and drivers extensive, it becomes increasingly important for the car-hailing service providers to minimize the waiting time of passengers and optimize the vehicle utilization, thus to improve the overall u…
Proposes a neural network for handling multi-sensor time series with varying input dimensions.
problem Handling multi-sensor time series with varying input dimensions.
method Graph neural network conditioning vectors for zero-shot transfer learning.
result Better generalization in activity recognition and equipment prognostics datasets.
Compute and memory constraints have historically prevented traffic simulation software users from fully utilizing the predictive models underlying them. When calibrating car-following models, particularly, accommodations have included 1) using sensitivity analysis to limit the number of parameters to be calibrated, and…
RESPIRE calibrates low-cost air-quality sensors for CO levels, resistant to outliers.
problem Calibrating LCAQ sensors against regulatory-grade monitors is expensive and time-consuming.
method PROvably outlier-resistant semi-parametric regression technique.
result RESPIRE offers improved prediction in cross-site, cross-season, and cross-sensor settings.
Study systemic risk measures and capital allocation rules, showing commonalities.
problem Systemic risk measures and capital allocation in financial systems.
method Developed a general framework to embed axiomatic and injective capital approaches, introduced Aumann-Shapley CAR.
result Aumann-Shapley CAR provides a universal method for capital allocation regardless of risk measurement.
Perception technologies in Autonomous Driving are experiencing their golden age due to the advances in Deep Learning. Yet, most of these systems rely on the semantically rich information of RGB images. Deep Learning solutions applied to the data of other sensors typically mounted on autonomous cars (e.g. lidars or rada…
Improved DOA estimation with distributed sensors across multiple frequencies.
problem Sensor gain uncertainties and directional perturbations in multi-frequency scenarios.
method Distributed optimization with local coherence models and iterative exchange of information.
result Advantages in statistical and computational efficiency through parallel iterative technique.