Browsing Theses by Subject "autonomous driving"
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Perception and Prediction in Multi-Agent Urban Traffic Scenarios for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)In multi-agent urban scenarios, autonomous vehicles navigate an intricate network of interactions with a variety of agents, necessitating advanced perception modeling and trajectory prediction. Research to improve perception ... -
Simultaneous Local Motion Planning and Control, Adjustable Driving Behavior, and Obstacle Representation for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)The evolving autonomous driving technology has been attracting significant research efforts in both academia and industry because of its promising potentials. Eliminating the human intervention in driving will drastically ... -
Socially and Spatially Aware Motion Prediction of Dynamic Objects for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-17)The primary goal of this thesis project is to develop a robust object motion prediction framework enabling safe decision making for autonomous vehicles in various driving scenarios. Given the comparatively higher importance ... -
Sparse2SOAP: Domain Adaptation for LiDAR-Based 3D Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)In this work, we propose Sparse2SOAP, an extension of the previous work in Sparse2Dense that uses knowledge distillation in a teacher-student framework to densify 3D features, to enable its uses for cross-domain LiDAR-based ... -
Static and Dynamic Affordance Learning in Vision-based Direct Perception for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)The recent development in autonomous driving involves high-level computer vision and detailed road scene understanding. Today, most autonomous vehicles are using the mediated perception approach for path planning ... -
Switching GAN-based Image Filters to Improve Perception for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-24)Autonomous driving holds the potential to increase human productivity, reduce accidents caused by human errors, allow better utilization of roads, reduce traffic accidents and congestion, free up parking space and provide ... -
Towards Domain Invariant Real-time Point Cloud Perception
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)In recent years, autonomous driving has witnessed substantial advancements, owing in part to the rapid advancement of 3D sensor technologies, particularly Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors.Despite these advancements, ... -
Towards Object Re-identification from Point Clouds for 3D MOT
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)This thesis studies the problem of object re-identification (ReID) in a 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) context, by learning to match pairs of objects from cropped (e.g., using their predicted 3D bounding boxes) point cloud ...