Mar 14, 2021Member-onlyA Primer on Traffic CongestionLooking at the root causes and potential approaches we can take to solve one of the biggest problems with modern transportation — In the US alone, 17.4 billion hours are wasted sitting in traffic. During this time, over 3 billion additional gallons of fuel are emitted into the atmosphere (which is ~2% of the 134 billion gallons of gasoline consumed by Americans each year). Furthermore, traffic congestion worsens as cities grow. Considering…Traffic9 min readTraffic9 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·May 30, 2020Member-onlyUsing Hourglass Networks To Understand Human PosesA simple and digestible deep dive into the theory behind Hourglass Networks for human pose estimation — A man is running at you with a knife. What do you do? Well, most people will only have one thought in mind: RUN. Well, why would you run? Because after observing this man’s aggressive posture, you can conclude that he wants to harm you. …Computer Vision8 min readComputer Vision8 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·May 5, 2020Member-onlyA Deep Dive into Lane Detection with Hough TransformGo from zero to hero guide to building a Lane Line Detection algorithm in OpenCV — Lane line detection is one of the essential components of self-driving cars. There are many approaches to doing this. Here, we’ll look at the simplest approach using Hough Transform. Alright, let’s dive into it! Preparations So before we get started, we need a place to write our code. The IDE (environment)…Computer Vision19 min readComputer Vision19 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Jan 24, 2020Member-onlyBuilding a Road Sign Classifier in KerasWriting a CNN that classifies over 43 types of road signs in the Keras framework — There are so many different types of traffic signs out there, each with different colours, shapes and sizes. Sometimes, there are two signs may have a similar colour, shape and size, but have 2 totally different meanings. How on earth would we ever be able to program a computer to…Self Driving Cars10 min readSelf Driving Cars10 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Jan 19, 2020Member-onlyA Simple Guide to Convolutional Neural NetworksConvolutional Neural Networks demystified without any of the fancy tech jargon! — Cars can recognize road signs. Facebook knows your best friends names. You can use your face to unlock your phone. This is all done by magic. I’m just joking, there is no magic here, just plain, old math. But serious talk though, all the stuff I just mentioned are examples…Neural Networks8 min readNeural Networks8 min read
Oct 28, 2019Sensors in Self-Driving CarsThe part of Self-Driving Cars that no one ever talks about — Whenever you say “Self-Driving Cars”, people automatically think “AI”, “machine learning”, “back to the future” or “Elon Musk”. But the one thing that no one ever thinks of is: “Sensors”. Yeah, I know you probably weren’t expecting that (the title maybe gave it away). LIDAR and RADAR are just as…Self Driving Cars6 min readSelf Driving Cars6 min read
Sep 28, 2019Self Driving Cars: A Brief IntroductionEverything you need to know about the world of self-driving cars — Cars have been getting faster, sleeker, and cooler, but there is only one element of cars that has never changed: the way we drive. Driving has remained the same ever since Karl Benz took his Benz-Patent Motorwagen for a spin back in 1886. However, due to recent technological breakthroughs, the…Self Driving Cars7 min readSelf Driving Cars7 min read
