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Hands-On Vision and Behavior for Self-Driving Cars

Hands-On Vision and Behavior for Self-Driving Cars

By : Venturi, Korda
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Hands-On Vision and Behavior for Self-Driving Cars

Hands-On Vision and Behavior for Self-Driving Cars

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By: Venturi, Korda

Overview of this book

The visual perception capabilities of a self-driving car are powered by computer vision. The work relating to self-driving cars can be broadly classified into three components - robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. This book provides existing computer vision engineers and developers with the unique opportunity to be associated with this booming field. You will learn about computer vision, deep learning, and depth perception applied to driverless cars. The book provides a structured and thorough introduction, as making a real self-driving car is a huge cross-functional effort. As you progress, you will cover relevant cases with working code, before going on to understand how to use OpenCV, TensorFlow and Keras to analyze video streaming from car cameras. Later, you will learn how to interpret and make the most of lidars (light detection and ranging) to identify obstacles and localize your position. You’ll even be able to tackle core challenges in self-driving cars such as finding lanes, detecting pedestrian and crossing lights, performing semantic segmentation, and writing a PID controller. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to write code for a self-driving car running in a driverless car simulator, and be able to tackle various challenges faced by autonomous car engineers.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: OpenCV and Sensors and Signals
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Section 2: Improving How the Self-Driving Car Works with Deep Learning and Neural Networks
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Section 3: Mapping and Controls

Chapter 11: Mapping Our Environments

There are a few fundamental things that your self-driving car needs to navigate the world.

First of all, you need to have a map of your environment. This map is very similar to the map you use on your phone for getting to your favorite restaurant.

Secondly, you need a way to localize your position on that map in the real world. On your phone, this is the blue dot localized by the GPS.

In this chapter, you will learn about various ways for your self-driving car to map and localize through its environment, so it knows where it is in the world. You can imagine why this is important since the entire reason for making a self-driving car is to go places!

You will learn the following topics to help you build a self-driving car worthy of being called Magellan:

  • Why you need maps and localization
  • Types of mapping and localization
  • Open source mapping tools
  • SLAM with an Ouster lidar and Google Cartographer
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