Autonomy@Scale

IV2022: Second Workshop on Autonomy@Scale

Agenda

The workshop will take place on Sunday, 05. June 2022 in Room K5 in the Eurogress Aachen from 08:30 CEST to 12:30 CEST.

For detailed information, check the agenda below.

Time in CESTTalkSpeaker
08:30Begin 
08:30Opening and IntroductionLarissa Triess (Mercedes-Benz AG)
Saqib Bukhari (ZF Group)
Cristobal Curio (Hochschule Reutlingen)
08:35Introduction of KI Delta Learning ProjectAmin Hosseini (Mercedes-Benz AG)
08:45Invited Talk:
Domain Generalization and (Continual) Unsupervised Domain Adaptation:
A Birds Eye View Synopsis for Semantic Segmentation
Prof. Tim Fingscheidt (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
09:15Contributed Paper:
Capsule Networks for Hierarchical Novelty Detection in Object
Classification
Thies de Graaff (German Aerospace Center)
09:35Invited Talk:
Supervised and Unsupervised Semantic Image Synthesis
George Eskandar (University of Stuttgart)
10:10Break 
10:30Invited Talk:
Neural Rendering for Automated Driving
Prof. Matthias Niessner (Technical University of Munich)
11:00Contributed Paper:
BackboneAnalysis: Structured Insights into Compute Platforms from CNN
Inference Latency
Matthias Zeller (CARIAD)
11:20Contributed Paper:
MEAT: Maneuver Extraction from Agent Trajectories
Julian Jordan (Mercedes-Benz AG)
11:40Invited Talk:
Automated Detection of Labeling Errors in Semantic Segmentation Datasets
Dr. Matthias Rottmann (University of Wuppertal)
12:10Wrap Up and ClosingLarissa Triess (Mercedes-Benz AG)
Saqib Bukhari (ZF Group)
Cristobal Curio (Hochschule Reutlingen)
12:30End 

 

Aim of Scope

Highly automated vehicles are an integral part of everyday traffic and will be used even more in the future with further autonomy. The world is dynamically evolving with an "open-world" nature, creating new domains for highly/fully automated vehicles to learn. The environmental changes and developments are not only important for in time and location aspects, but also the constant developments in the field of hardware, such as sensors, software, and development states, pose great challenges. Up until now, artificial intelligence (AI) modules in autonomous driving applications are only scalable to a limited extent. The reason lies in the training strategies applied, in which algorithms have to be trained for each new domain. This results in enormous development costs.

 

This workshop addresses the need for new training methods for AI systems and researches. Disruptive methods of "effective" machine learning can enable a more efficient and unrestricted use of AI and thus “scaling of autonomy” in new domains. With this approach, automated vehicles can access new markets faster and respond agile to new demands.

 

The scaling of autonomy can be achieved by using the gained knowledge from known domains and focusing on learning gaps to the target domain. This is also called Delta Learning, which can be achieved by applying methods from transfer learning and incremental learning.

Invited Speakers

Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Rottmann (University of Wuppertal)

Topic: Automated Detection of Labeling Errors in Semantic Segmentation Datasets

George Eskandar, M.Sc. (University of Stuttgart)

Topic: Supervised and Unsupervised Semantic Image Synthesis

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tim Fingscheidt (Technische Universität Braunschweig)

Topic: Domain Generalization and (Continual) Unsupervised Domain Adaptation: A Birds Eye View Synopsis for Semantic Segmentation

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Nießner (Technical University of Munich)

Topic: The Revolution of Neural Rendering

 

Topics Covered

The focus of this workshop is on methods and approaches that contribute to the scaling of autonomy solutions. The goal of these methods is to reduce the dependency on high data volumes, to use different data sources and to be able to use knowledge that has already been gained from other domains:

  • Semi-Supervised, Weakly-Supervised Learning and Unsupervised Learning
  • Few/Single Shot Learning
  • Multi-Task Learning
  • Active Learning
  • Continuous Learning, Incremental Learning and Transfer Learning
  • Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Distillation
  • Domain and Task Adaptation
  • Uncertainty Estimation and Out of Distribution Detection
  • Generative Modelling (e.g. GANs, VAEs)
  • Relational Learning (e.g. Graph Networks, Self-Attention)

Application Areas

The application areas for the above methods are different sources of domain shifts and changes. These changes can be caused by:

  • Changes in task or label set (e.g. new classes or class imbalance)
  • Changes from simulation to real environment and vice versa (sim2real)
  • Cross sensor adaptation and using the knowledge from other sensors (with different technology, type, or position and orientation)
  • Place and locations such as changes in road domain (e.g. highway to urban) or country (e.g. USA to china) or traffic situations (e.g roundabout to intersection)
  • Changes caused by time (e.g. seeing new) or changes in weather or lighting conditions.

The application areas may be applied to different sensor technologies (e.g. camera, LiDAR, and RADAR) and also be used in different functional modules such as perception, fusion, behavior and trajectory planning.

Accepted Papers

Thies de Graaff and Arthur Ribeiro de Menezes, “Capsule Networks for Hierarchical Novelty Detection in Object Classification”

Frank M. Hafner, Matthias Zeller, Mark Schutera, Jochen Abhau, and Julian Francisco Pieter Kooij, “BackboneAnalysis: Structured Insights into Compute Platforms from CNN Inference Latency”

Julian Schmidt, Julian Jordan, David Raba, Tobias Welz, and Klaus Dietmayer, “MEAT: Maneuver Extraction from Agent Trajectories”

Workshop Coordinators

The workshop is organized by members of the German publicly funded project of KI Delta Learning together with great partners such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, CARIAD, Porsche Engineering, Valeo, Bosch, ZF, DLR, FZI, Uni Wuppertal, Hochschule Reutlingen, TUM, Uni Freiburg, Uni Stuttgart, Uni Tübingen, and others.

Larissa Triess from Mercedes-Benz AG
Prof. Cristobal Curio from University of Reutlingen
Dr.-Ing. Saqib Bukhari from ZF