7 accepted papers
With the Autonomous Vehicle (AV) industry shifting towards machine-learned approaches for motion plan-ning [1], the performance of self-driving systems is starting to rely heavily on large quantities of expert driving demon-strations. However, collecting this demonstration data typically involves ex…
In this paper we present the first safe system for full control of self-driving vehicles trained from human demonstrations and deployed in challenging, real-world, urban environments. Current industry-standard solutions use rule-based systems for planning. Although they perform reasonably well in co…
In this work we present a simple end-to-end trainable machine learning system capable of realistically simulating driving experiences. This can be used for verification of self-driving system performance without relying on expensive and time-consuming road testing. In particular, we frame the simula…
We investigate what grade of sensor data is required for training an imitation-learning-based AV planner on human expert demonstration. Machine-learned planners [1] are very hungry for training data, which is usually collected using vehicles equipped with the same sensors used for autonomous operati…
This paper presents a simple and robust method for the automatic localisation of static 3D objects in large-scale urban environments. By exploiting the potential to merge a large volume of noisy but accurately localised 2D image data, we achieve superior performance in terms of both robustness and a…
We present a location-specific method to visually track the positions of observed vehicles based on large-scale crowd-sourced maps. We equipped a large fleet of cars that drive around cities with camera phones mounted on the dashboard, and performed city-scale structure-from-motion to accurately rec…
We present a framework for integrating two layers of map which are often required for fully automated operation: metric and semantic. Metric maps are likely to improve with subsequent visitations to the same place, while semantic maps can comprise both permanent and fluctuating features of the envir…