Beyond Pedestrian Detection: Deep Neural Networks Level-Up Automotive Safety

Hideki Niihara (Denso IT Laboratory, Inc.), Ikuro Sato (Denso IT Laboratory, Inc.) People want not only cost-friendly, trouble-free, energy-efficient, but also safe cars. Today’s technology provides Advanced Emergency Braking Systems that can detect pedestrians and automatically brake just before collision is unavoidable. We have a vision that future Advanced Driver Assistance Systems enable not just detecting pedestrians but recognizing how the pedestrians are and understanding the level of danger to avoid emergency situations. We claim deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are the right tools for these highly non-trivial tasks, and Tegra is the best partner. We demonstrate real-time deep CNN using Tegra.