PhD - Data-driven Self-Assessment for Multimodal Perception in Automated Driving

Datadriven methods are ubiquitous in todays autonomous systems. An important task of environmental perception is the detection classification and tracking of relevant objects in the scene. We are particularly interested in environment perception using point cloud like data (e.g. lidar) in combination with video.

Todays perception algorithms are based on deep neural networks and usually are trained to equally weight errors for each object in a scene independent of its potential effects on the driving task. However in reality there are objects which are more and less relevant. As a result the trained network which is considered to perform best according to the metrics not necessarily is the best one to be deployed. The goal of this research is to 1) develop new ways of assessing the relevance for all parts of the scene 2) and assessing the current perception performance within these regions. In particular connecting the concepts of relevance and selfassessment to improve the correlation of training metrics and realworld performance will be the main focus.

• You develop novel machine learning approaches for object detection and tracking based on selfsupervision techniques.
• Furthermore you evaluate your algorithms on public benchmark data sets and internal realworld data sets offline and online.
• You contribute to the scientific community with publications on top machine learning and robotics conferences and journals (NIPS ICML ICLR CVPR  ICCV IROS or ICRA).
• Take on responsibility and work in an agile and diverse research team with other PhD students and with exchange across several research projects.

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Additional Information :

The PhD project will be carried out in cooperation with and under cosupervision of Dr. Holger Caesar (Assistant Professor at the Intelligent Vehicles Lab TU Delft).

Start : according to prior agreement

Please submit all relevant documents (incl. curriculum vitae motivation letter and certificates).

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