Seminar: Outlier Challenges in Self-Driving Cars, 14th Jan, 12:00pm

When: Tuesday 14th of January, 12:00pm AEDT

Where: This seminar will be partially presented at the ACFR seminar area, J04 lvl 2 (Rose St Building) and partially online via Zoom. RSVP

Title: Outlier Challenges in Self-Driving Cars

Abstract:

Capabilities of self-driving cars has surged in the last ten years, propelled by the promise that, in a very near future, commercial self-driving cars will be safe and perform well. Academia is spurring ground-breaking research (e.g. deep learning) and industry is validating software and hardware extensively with millions of miles being driven on the roads and in simulation.  Yet, final adoption has slowed – primarily due to challenges such as perceptual mistakes, weather and scaling. In this talk, I will present recent research at Cornell addressing some of these challenges. I will given an overview of the Ithaca 365 dataset, with repeated traversals over diverse scene and weather conditions; and a recent data collection from Hanoi Vietnam, with many scooters. I will then show several research directions that have built on these datasets, including learning via repeated traversals; transforming snowy scenes to sunny; and uncertainty quantification in deep learning. 

Bio:

Mark Campbell joined the Sibley School faculty at Cornell in 2001, and is currently the John A. Mellowes ’60 Professor Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to Cornell, Professor Campbell was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington from 1997-2001. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (B.S.) and MIT (M.S., Ph.D.), Professor Campbell worked on MACE, a dynamics and control laboratory flown on Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1995. For the mission, his responsibilities involved the design of many of the 500 multivariable control experiments implemented on-orbit. Professor Campbell spent his 2005-06 sabbatical year as a Visiting Scientist at the Insitu group, maker of small autonomous UAV’s for commercial and defense applications, and as an Australian Research Council (ARC) International Fellow, working at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems in Sydney Australia. In 2012-13, Professor Campbell was among a small group of tenured faculty members across all disciplines in science and engineering selected for the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG). He currently serves on the Air Force Science Advisory Board (SAB).