Procedural synthetic data for self-driving cars using 3D graphics

Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018. === This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. === Cataloged from student-s...

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Main Author: Bhandari, Nishchal
Other Authors: Frédo Durand.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119745
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Summary:Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018. === This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. === Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. === Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-44). === In this thesis we present CoSy, a configurable system for procedurally generating synthetic data for self-driving vehicles. To address the problem of data hungry vision-based learning algorithms used in self-driving vehicles, we develop a system that generates synthetic images, including class level annotations, of street scenes. To give researchers control over how data is generated, our system is designed to be configurable and extendable. We provide two example datasets generated by our system, and provide extensive documentation on how the system is architected, and how it can be extended. === by Nishchal Bhandari. === M. Eng.