Title: Enterprise Risk Management

Abstract:

Autonomous Vehicle is a technological revolution in the transportation industry and is one among the most anticipated trends of near future. It uses a combination of cameras and sensors like lidar and radar for understanding the scene around it and thereby taking the necessary actions accordingly.   This work focuses on  segmenting the scene i.e. separation of whole image into individual segments, detecting objects of interest from the road using the 2D view of the road, which is obtained from cameras installed in the vehicle.  The objects of interest include traffic signals, traffic signs, road lanes, pedestrian, road markings, vehicles in blindspot area etc. The work also focuses on the headpose detection of the driver to identify whether he is performing mirror and shoulder checks properly. This can be viewed as a driver monitoring application also.

The work uses a Deep Learning based approach to identify the objects and the precise location of the objects in the scene. Knowing the location helps the vehicle to take necessary action or provide indications to the driver. Deep Learning algorithms uses different frameworks like Convolutional Neural Network(CNN), Recurrent Neural Network(RNN) etc for processing massive amounts of data to create application specific models which can be used for inferencing. This work has a variety of applications in driver monitoring, automated driving test etc.

Biography:

Athira M is a lead Data Scientist at Dubai Technologies, who is passionate about the transformation of traditional traffic monitoring systems, to a next pace using Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision technologies. She has completed M.Tech in Computation Linguistics from University of Calicut and has 5+ years of experience as Data Scientist. She is an active member of WomenTech Network and was nominated for AI Inclusion award by the network. She is often invited to speak at conferences and recently she has spoken at GEC, Palakkad and MBZ University for Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi.