Hendrik Dahlkamp, talk, gold medal for DARPA Grand Challenge "self-supervised learning"
- Title:
- Hendrik Dahlkamp, talk, gold medal for DARPA Grand Challenge "self-supervised learning"
- Author:
- Dahlkamp, Hendrik
- Author (no Collectors):
- Dahlkamp, Hendrik
- Corporate Author:
- Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Description:
- For computer vision that led to the DARPA Grand Challenge victory. For his contributions to Stanford's autonomous vehicle Stanley, and specifically its computer vision system for long-range road detection. Called Stanford's "secret weapon" by a PBS documentary on the DARPA Grand Challenge, this system enabled Stanley to perceive and classify desert terrain in the distance as drivable or undrivable, and determine a safe traversal speed. The algorithm was a crucial contribution in two ways: First, it allowed Stanley to extend its sensing range from a classical laser-based perception range of 20 meters to a camera-based range of 40 meters, which led to a 40% increase in top speed and a win in the race. Second, it advanced a new paradigm in ru1ificial intelligence called "self-supervised learning", where the output of one sensor modality, the laser range finder, is used to generate online training data for a second sensor modality, the camera. This allowed Stanley to constantly adjust its road model to the environment, taking time-of-day, surface material, texture, shadows etc into account. Together with Intel Computer Vision Researcher Adrian Kaehler, Hendrik implemented a perception system that was able to react even to obstacles such as tank traps that it had never encountered before.
- Topic:
- Artificial intelligence
- Subject:
- Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 video file
- Publication Info:
- cau and Stanford (Calif.)
- Date:
- November 22, 2009
- Place created:
- Stanford (Calif.)
- Imprint:
- Stanford (Calif.), November 22, 2009
- Genre:
- lectures
- Repository:
- Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
- Collection:
- Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory records, 1963-2009
- Manuscript number:
- SC1041