Data Science Seminar: Autonomous driving – Are we there yet?

Autonomous driving technologies hold the promise to transform the society in large. This is manifested by the venture capital piling on autonomous driving startups. Recently, many of these companies have experienced backlash though, as bringing those technologies on streets has turned out to be harder than anticipated. In this seminar, we are going to take a closer look at the challenges these companies are facing and what are the promising research directions to look into. With autonomous driving research labs now in Tartu and Tallinn, and companies like Starship Technologies, Milrem Robotics, Cleveron, and others, the field is getting traction in Estonia, moving towards the goal of having Estonia as the global test-bed for self-driving vehicles.

Agenda:
16:45-17:00 Gathering & welcome coffee
17:00-17:15 Introduction by the moderator, Tambet Matiisen (Autonomous Driving Lab of University of Tartu)
17:15-17:40 Naveed Muhammad (University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science): Autonomous driving – past, present and future
17:40-18:05 Martin Appo (Cleveron): Cleveron’s journey towards driverless delivery vehicle
18:05-18:30 Coffee break & networking
18:30-18:55 Sergii Kharagorgiiev (Starship Technologies): Computer vision for obstacle avoidance in the wild
18:55-19:20 Alex Kendall (Wayve): Creating an artificial driving intelligence
19:20-19:50 Networking

The seminar will be held in English. Very limited amount of seats available.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. NB! Marking yourself as “Going” on Facebook does not count as registration. Register here: https://forms.gle/dFJwTv661VQJu4b98

Location: University of Tartu Delta Centre (Narva mnt 18, Tartu) – 1st floor, room 1037

Information and recordings from previous seminars are available: https://www.cs.ut.ee/…/industry…/data-science-seminars