Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Valeo AI

Participants : Karteek Alahari, Florent Bartoccioni.

This collaboration started in 2019 with the arrival of PhD student Florent Bartoccioni. Despite the progress seen in computer vision, artificial systems lack the capability to address the large disparity between human and machine-based scene understanding. For example, at any road intersection most people have the ability to accurately forecast or anticipate events in this scenario, such as changes in colour of the traffic lights, when and how pedestrians are likely to cross the street. This apparently natural human behaviour is not replicable by state-of-theart computer vision methods, which are ill-equipped to make such forecasts. The goal of this collaborative PhD is to address this forecasting problem.