aDverse wEather eNvironmental Sensing systEm

Deliverables

Documents, reports (5)

System needs and benchmarking

The use cases of the system and the validation criteria are defined.

Dissemination Report

Dissemination Report on the Dissemination activities carried out during the Project runtime.

Characteristics of Adverse Weather Conditions

The report describes how various weather conditions need to be taken into account for the evaluation of the all-weather sensor.

Dissemination plan

The deliverable describes the project’s dissemination and communication activities.

Overall system requirements

All-weather perception sensor suite scenarios, use cases and functional requirements are described.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Website

Project website is a communication means inside and outside the project. It is updated regularly.

Publications

Conference proceedings (26)

High-power 1550 nm tapered DBR laser diodes for LIDAR applications

Author(s): Antti T. Aho, Jukka Viheriala, Jaakko Makela, Heikki Virtanen, Sanna Ranta, Mihail Dumitrescu, Mircea Guina
Published in: 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), 2017, Page(s) 1-1
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2017.8086373

1180 nm GaInNAs quantum well based high power DBR laser diodes

Author(s): Jukka Viheriälä, Antti T. Aho, Heikki Virtanen, Mervi Koskinen, Michael Dumitrescu, Mircea Guina
Published in: High-Power Diode Laser Technology XV, 2017, Page(s) 100860K
DOI: 10.1117/12.2251317

A Benchmark for Lidar Sensors in Fog: Is Detection Breaking Down?

Author(s): Mario Bijelic, Tobias Gruber, Werner Ritter
Published in: 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2018, Page(s) 760-767
DOI: 10.1109/ivs.2018.8500543

Automotive LiDAR performance verification in fog and rain

Author(s): M. Kutila, P. Pyykonen, H. Holzhuter, M. Colomb, P. Duthon
Published in: 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2018, Page(s) 1695-1701
DOI: 10.1109/itsc.2018.8569624

Radar-based Feature Design and Multiclass Classification for Road User Recognition

Author(s): Nicolas Scheiner, Nils Appenrodt, Jurgen Dickmann, Bernhard Sick
Published in: 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2018, Page(s) 779-786
DOI: 10.1109/ivs.2018.8500607

Automated Ground Truth Estimation of Vulnerable Road Users in Automotive Radar Data Using GNSS

Author(s): Nicolas Scheiner, Nils Appenrodt, Jurgen Dickmann, Bernhard Sick
Published in: 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM), 2019, Page(s) 1-5
DOI: 10.1109/icmim.2019.8726801

Optimal Sensor Data Fusion Architecture for Object Detection in Adverse Weather Conditions

Author(s): Pfeuffer, Andreas; Dietmayer, Klaus
Published in: 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) 2018, Cambridge, UK, Issue 1, 2018

Robustness Against Unknown Noise for Raw Data Fusing Neural Networks

Author(s): Mario Bijelic, Christian Muench, Werner Ritter, Yuri Kalnishkan, Klaus Dietmayer
Published in: 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2018, Page(s) 2177-2184
DOI: 10.1109/itsc.2018.8569911

Learning Super-resolved Depth from Active Gated Imaging

Author(s): Tobias Gruber, Mariia Kokhova, Werner Ritter, Norbert Haala, Klaus Dictmayer
Published in: 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2018, Page(s) 3051-3058
DOI: 10.1109/itsc.2018.8569590

Benchmarking Image Sensors Under Adverse Weather Conditions for Autonomous Driving

Author(s): Mario Bijelic, Tobias Gruber, Werner Ritter
Published in: 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2018, Page(s) 1773-1779
DOI: 10.1109/ivs.2018.8500659

Boosting LiDAR-based Semantic Labeling by Cross-Modal Training Data Generation

Author(s): Florian Piewak, Peter Pinggera, Manuel Schäfer, David Peter, Beate Schwarz, Nick Schneider, David Pfeiffer, Markus Enzweiler, Marius Zöllner
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2018

Pixel-Accurate Depth Evaluation in Realistic Driving Scenarios

Author(s): Tobias Gruber, Mario Bijelic, Felix Heide, Werner Ritter, Klaus Dietmayer
Published in: 2019 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2019, Page(s) 95-105
DOI: 10.1109/3dv.2019.00020

Automated Ground Truth Estimation for Automotive Radar Tracking Applications With Portable GNSS And IMU Devices

Author(s): Nicolas Scheiner, Stefan Haag, Nils Appenrodt, Bharanidhar Duraisamy, Jurgen Dickmann, Martin Fritzsche, Bernhard Sick
Published in: 2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS), 2019, Page(s) 1-10
DOI: 10.23919/irs.2019.8768169

Separable Convolutional LSTMs for Faster Video Segmentation

Author(s): Pfeuffer, Andreas; Dietmayer, Klaus
Published in: 2019 22st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Issue 4, 2019

Robust Semantic Segmentation in Adverse Weather Conditions by means of Sensor Data Fusion

Author(s): Andreas Pfeuffer, Klaus Dietmayer
Published in: 22st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) (2019), 2019

Angular Resolution Improvement by Using Multi-Radar and FBSS MUSIC DoA Estimation Algorithm

Author(s): Henna Paaso, Mervi Hirvonen
Published in: 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2019, Page(s) 730-735
DOI: 10.1109/ivs.2019.8813780

Radar-based Road User Classification and Novelty Detection with Recurrent Neural Network Ensembles

Author(s): Nicolas Scheiner, Nils Appenrodt, Jurgen Dickmann, Bernhard Sick
Published in: 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2019, Page(s) 722-729
DOI: 10.1109/IVS.2019.8813773

Gated2Depth: Real-time Dense Lidar from Gated Images

Author(s): Tobias Gruber, Frank Julca-Aguilar, Mario Bijelic, Werner Ritter, Klaus Dietmayer, Felix Heide
Published in: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019

Spectral reflectance characterization of the road environment to optimize the choice of autonomous vehicle sensors*

Author(s): Michele Colomb, Pierre Duthon, Frederic Bernardin
Published in: 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2019, Page(s) 1085-1090
DOI: 10.1109/itsc.2019.8917455

Uncertainty Estimation in One-Stage Object Detection

Author(s): Florian Kraus, Klaus Dietmayer
Published in: 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2019, Page(s) 53-60
DOI: 10.1109/itsc.2019.8917494

LiDAR Performance Review in Arctic Conditions

Author(s): Maria Jokela, Pasi Pyykonen, Matti Kutila, Kimmo Kauvo
Published in: 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), 2019, Page(s) 27-31
DOI: 10.1109/iccp48234.2019.8959554

A Multi-Stage Clustering Framework for Automotive Radar Data

Author(s): Nicolas Scheiner, Nils Appenrodt, Jurgen Dickmann, Bernhard Sick
Published in: 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2019, Page(s) 2060-2067
DOI: 10.1109/itsc.2019.8916873

Seeing Around Street Corners: Non-Line-of-Sight Detection and Tracking In-the-Wild Using Doppler Radar

Author(s): Nicolas Scheiner, Florian Kraus, Fangyin Wei, Buu Phan, Fahim Mannan, Nils Appenrodt, Werner Ritter, Jürgen Dickmann, Klaus Dietmayer, Bernhard Sick, Felix Heide
Published in: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR2020), 2020

Off-the-shelf sensor vs. experimental radar – How much resolution is necessary in automotive radar classification?

Author(s): Nicolas Scheiner, Ole Schumann, Florian Kraus, Nils Appenrodt, Jürgen Dickmann, Bernhard Sick
Published in: 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion, 2020

Using Machine Learning to Detect Ghost Images in Automotive Radar

Author(s): Florian Kraus, Nicolas Scheiner, Werner Ritter, Klaus Dietmayer
Published in: 23rd IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2020

Benchmarking Automotive LiDAR Performance in Arctic Conditions

Author(s): Kutila, M. Pyykönen, P., Jokela, M. Gruber, T., Bijelic, M. & Ritter, W.
Published in: 23rd IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2020

Thesis dissertations (3)

Direction of arrival estimation algorithms for leaky-wave antennas and antenna arrays

Author(s): Paaso, Henna
Published in: 2018

Development of an Image Enhancing System for Autonomous Driving based on Generative Adversial Network

Author(s): Paula Kysela
Published in: 2018

Vision Enhancement for Autonomous Driving under Adverse Weather Conditions using Generative Adversial Nets

Author(s): Alexander Hunt
Published in: 2018

Monographic books (1)

Electronic Components and Systems for Automotive Applications - Proceedings of the 5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2018

Author(s): Werner Ritter, Mario Bijelic, Tobias Gruber, Matti Kutila, Hanno Holzhüter
Published in: Electronic Components and Systems for Automotive Applications - Proceedings of the 5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, 2018, 2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14156-1

Peer reviewed articles (5)

High-Power 1.5-$\mu$ m Broad Area Laser Diodes Wavelength Stabilized by Surface Gratings

Author(s): Antti T. Aho, Jukka Viheriala, Heikki Virtanen, Topi Uusitalo, Mircea Guina
Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Issue 30/21, 2018, Page(s) 1870-1873, ISSN 1041-1135
DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2018.2870304

Testing and Validation of Automotive Point-Cloud Sensors in Adverse Weather Conditions

Author(s): Maria Jokela, Matti Kutila, Pasi Pyykönen
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue 9/11, 2019, Page(s) 2341, ISSN 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app9112341

Light Transmission in Fog: The Influence of Wavelength on the Extinction Coefficient

Author(s): Pierre Duthon, Michèle Colomb, Frédéric Bernardin
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue 9/14, 2019, Page(s) 2843, ISSN 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app9142843

Fog Classification by Their Droplet Size Distributions: Application to the Characterization of Cerema’s Platform

Author(s): Pierre Duthon, Michèle Colomb, Frédéric Bernardin
Published in: Atmosphere, Issue 11/6, 2020, Page(s) 596, ISSN 2073-4433
DOI: 10.3390/atmos11060596

What Happens for a ToF LiDAR in Fog?

Author(s): You Li, Pierre Duthon, Michele Colomb, Javier Ibanez-Guzman
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 1524-9050
DOI: 10.1109/tits.2020.2998077

Other (1)

High-power 1.5μm laser diodes for LIDAR applications

Author(s): Jukka Viheriälä, Antti T. Aho, Topi Uusitalo, Jari Lyytikäinen, Lauri Hallman, Boris S. Ryvkin, Eugene A. Avrutin, Juha T. Kostamovaara, and Mircea Guina
Published in: IEEE High Power Diode Lasers & Systems Conference, 2019