Autonomous Driving approaches Downtown

Most computer vision systems for vehicle guidance developed in the past were designed for the comparatively simple highway scenario. Autonomous driving in the much more complex scenario of urban traffic or driver assistance systems like Intelligent Stop&Go are new challenges not only from the algorithmic but also from the system architecture point of view. This contribution describes our current work on these topics. It includes the appropriate algorithms as well as approaches to control the various vision modules.

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