Today, we were happy and excited to kick off our first lecture on Computer Vision and Artificial
Intelligence for Autonomous Cars (CVAIAC).
CVAIAC is a yearly recurring course
focussing on state-of-the-art computer vision and artificial intelligence techniques for
real-world autonomous agent, particularly cars.
Last Sunday, after a challenging Spring and Summer for all of us, our team went on a beautiful ridge hike
in the
Swiss Alps.
The weather could not have been better on the Autumn day we picked for such activity.
It was nice to see everybody again in person and spend some time together in nature.
We made it into Communications of the ACM. I was asked how my team and I let
computer
vision systems work even under the worst of weather conditions, think fog... A real
challenge
for autonomous cars!
The full article can be found here.
Today, Alex and I were happy and
excited to
kick off our first lecture on Deep
Learning for Autonomous Driving
(DLAD).
The lecture received a lot of attention among students and it is an honor for us to
teach almost
100 students in the first edition of this course.
DLAD is a yearly recurring course
and
already now, we are actively working towards a solution to teach even more students in
the years
to come.
The Autonomous Driving Workshop at
ICCV
2019 has been successfully taken place on Oct. 28 in Seoul. Thank you to all the invited
speakers,
authors, presenters and the audience. We are looking forward to meeting you again next
time.
Yesterday, on July 31st, we welcomed an honorable visitor at our lab, Fisher Yu.
After he gave an inspiring talk about his current work at Berkley DeepDrive, we gave him demos of
what we
are working on.
Everybody here is excited about him joining
the lab as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computer Vision towards the end
of 2020.
Two weeks ago, on July 1st, part of our team and I had a fun and memorable trip to
Leuven
for the yearly TRACE workshop.
We had great discussions with people from other project partners,
and enjoyed fantastic Belgian beer and food.