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[Seminar] CIRCLE Distinguished Lecture Series: Autonomous driving defines the future of urban transportation by Dr. Tony Han
Date: 20/07/2022 Addr:ZOOM

ABSTRACT: Why do human-beings need driverless cars? Why is autonomous driving happening today? When will driverless cars be available in anytime and anywhere? What challenges and difficulties are we still facing in order to achieve such prospect? Autonomous driving is not only the integration of artificial intelligence, but also a social and economic subversion and upgrading, benefiting all around the globe. The technol-ogy has been attracting the most innovative technical talents, the visionary investors, the big-name companies, and the scientists with great mind and entrepreneurship around the world to be part of this technological revolution. Currently, the R&D and commercialization of driver-less cars are best implemented in the United States and China. The two counties are developing the most advanced self-driving technologies that will revolutionize the automobile, transform human transportation systems, and reshape the relationship between human and nature. The technology of autonomous driving is highly complex, and what we want to achieve is not only to use machines to drive, but also to make driving more reliable and stable than men. Autonomous driving is not a rigid imitation of human driving behaviors. Scientists perceive it as: in order to have people or things move from point A to point B safely, efficiently, comfortably and economically, what driverless car should be like? Exploring mega application of deep learning in autonomous driving, WeRide is dedicated to design and develop a universal autonomous driving technology platform. Empowered by the platform, self-driving car can operate on open roads in the cities at any time and any road condition. It is capable of self-learning and self-improving, in order to adapt to the constant change of vehicles and transportation in the future, making autonomous driving available to everyone. The platform is named as WeRide One, a universal autonomous driving technology platform. WeRide is a world leading company to invest in the research and development of autonomous driving technology and the commer-cialization of driverless cars. In this lecture, Dr. Tony HAN, the founder, and CEO of WeRide, will analyze the social, economic, technological prog-ress and challenges behind the arrival of the wave of autonomous driving, sharing the best-in-class solutions, as well as WeRide’s latest achieve-ments in commercialization of autonomous driving cars around the globe.

 

BIO: Tony HAN is Founder & CEO of WeRide, a global leading autonomous driving technology company. Tony is specialized in computer vision, machine learning and speech recognition. He is one of the top scientists to pioneer self-driving technology development and commercializa-tion. Before establishing WeRide, he was a tenured professor of electrical & computer engineering at the University of Missouri (MU). In 2016, Tony served as the chief scientist of Baidu's Autonomous Driving Division, leading the perception, simulation, sensor and hardware teams. He was also an early contributor to deep learning-based speech recognition system DeepSpeech2, which was named in Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2016 by MIT Technology Review. Since 2007, 11 research projects hosted by Tony have received funding for a total amount of more than $7 million. The team led by Tony has won many international computer vision contest awards, including the 2nd place in the ImageNet International Object Detection Competition in 2013 (the first in the US); the 1st in the International Face Expression Recognition and Analysis Competition in 2011, the second place in non-specific identification; 2012 International Computer Vision The Pascal Grand Challenge 2010 in action classification tied for first place; the 2012 and 2009 Pascal Grand Challenge 2009 in object detection ranked third. He is an invited reviewer of several international authoritative magazines, including the international top journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal on Computer Vision, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.  As an executive member, he participated in organizing the top three professional conferences in the world: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV); and he was invited to chair the international multimedia authority conference in 2013 and 2014 as the president of the chapter: IEEE International Conference on Multime-dia and Expo.  In addition, Tony is also the deputy editor of the international professional journal Journal of Multimedia, and an expert from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSF). 

 

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