Evaluating Machine Learning Techniques for the Development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
My capstone project was a combined effort with students from both UTS as well as Hong Kong
Polytechnic University (PolyU). Each student investigated the effectiveness of deep learning in the
development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), exploring topics such as: Pedestrian
detection; Vehicle detection; Traffic-sign recognition; Lane detection; and Drowsy Driver detection.
The finished implementations for each topic were then combined to create a complete ADAS system.
VIP Cup: Spatio-Temporal Attention Reasoning for Human Activity Recognition with Privacy Protection
Additionally, in order to prepare and synthesise our knowledge and ideas for the main project, the
capstone team participated in the IEEE Video and Image Processing Cup (VIP Cup 2019). The challenge
focused on the ability to create a deep learning model that would be able to detect and recognise a
total of 18 human activities from an FPV chest-mounted camera, which included activities such as
walking; chatting; printing; reading; and using a mobile phone. Our model was also required to be
able to conceal (blur) private information such as faces, or the content of a computer screen.
Our capstone team proposed a new Spatio-temporal attention network (STANet), which focuses on
analysing both a combination of sRGB frames, as well as each frame’s optical flows, through the use
of ResNet50, ResNet34, and LSTM modules.
We attended and presented this model at the finals, hosted at the IEEE International Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP 2019) in Taipei (Taiwan), where we achieved 1st Place.