Thursday, July 8, 2010

Last day of IV2010

My last post from IV2010 sort of got out of sync because of all the traveling. In the morning the single-track session covered mainly perception but also V2V communication. In the afternoon keynote speech Dr Uwe Franke gave quite an interesting talk about the research evolution in stereo vision and concluded his talk by underlining the need for integrating communication and perception technologies for effective future active safety systems.

The day closed with an outdoor demo of a number of research vehicles and it was great to get to see these up-close. I especially did a private survey of trunk installations as we need to start thinking about such things for our upcoming GCDC involvement. Looks like we'll have to invest in some tie-downs ;)

Stanford/VW autonomous valet parking vehicle

A UCSD data collection vehicle


Another VW if I remember correctly.