December 18, 2019

• I was pointed to Drones learn search-and-rescue in simulation. This is interesting research, based on Microsoft's AirSim, which is based on Unreal.
• In the paper belonging AirSim software, it is clear that AirSim could also be well used for the autonomous driving project.

December 5, 2019

• Read history of driverless-cars.
• There is also Legislation article.

December 2, 2019

• Found the report Wie stuurt? Verkeersveiligheid en automatisering in het wegverkeer (28 Nov 2019).
• Found Visual Perception for Autonomous Driving course, including datasets.
• Raquel Urtasun from the University of Toronto also organized Reconstruction Meets Recognition Challenge, at ECCV 2014 in Zurich.

November 28, 2019

• Short discussion with Theo Gevers on the new Atlas lab, a cooperation with TomTom. The lab will be headed by an assistant professor, the CV students will work on 3D reconstruction from segmented data, 3D reconstruction from point-clouds and object detection from point-clouds.
• Bosch lab has for instance this publications:
  • Kim, J. ; Rohrbach, A. ; Darrell, T. ; Canny, J. ; Akata, Z. / Textual Explanations for Self-Driving Vehicles. Computer Vision – ECCV 2018: 15th European Conference, Munich, Germany, September 8-14, 2018: proceedings. editor / V. Ferrari ; M. Hebert ; C. Sminchisescu ; Y. Weiss. Vol. 2 Cham : Springer, 2018. pp. 577-593 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
• Looking if I could get deep driving code working on my workstation (Ubuntu for Windows mode). Install the requirements with pip install --user.
• Download script only worked for platform darwin, but modified it that it also works for linux (and python3).
• Preprocess step fails in line 104. Cannot read json files in ./data/Videos/info, which is correct, because this directory doesn't exist. The json files are also not downloaded in Step0, so a not clear where they should come from. Annotations can be found in data/Sample.csv