Autonomous Cars: Computer Vision and Deep Learning
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Autonomous Cars: Computer Vision and Deep Learning
Autonomous Cars: Computer Vision and Deep Learning
The automotive industry is experiencing a paradigm shift from conventional, human-driven vehicles into self-driving, artificial intelligence-powered vehicles. Self-driving vehicles offer a safe, efficient, and cost effective solution that will dramatically redefine the future of human mobility. Self-driving cars are expected to save over half a million lives and generate enormous economic opportunities in excess of $1 trillion dollars by 2035. The automotive industry is on a billion-dollar quest to deploy the most technologically advanced vehicles on the road.
As the world advances towards a driverless future, the need for experienced engineers and researchers in this emerging new field has never been more crucial.
The purpose of this course is to provide students with knowledge of key aspects of design and development of self-driving vehicles. The course provides students with practical experience in various self-driving vehicles concepts such as machine learning and computer vision. Concepts such as lane detection, traffic sign classification, vehicle/object detection, artificial intelligence, and deep learning will be presented. The course is targeted towards students wanting to gain a fundamental understanding of self-driving vehicles control. Basic knowledge of programming is recommended. However, these topics will be extensively covered during early course lectures; therefore, the course has no prerequisites, and is open to any student with basic programming knowledge. Students who enroll in this self-driving car course will master driverless car technologies that are going to reshape the future of transportation.
Tools and algorithms we'll cover include:
OpenCV
Deep Learning and Artificial Neural Networks
Convolutional Neural Networks
Template matching
HOG feature extraction
Ryan Ahmed with a PhD in engineering focusing on electric vehicle control systems, and Frank Kane, who spent 9 years at Amazon specializing in machine learning. Together, Frank and Dr. Ahmed have taught over 500,000 students around the world on Udemy alone.
Students of our popular course, "Data Science, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning with Python" may find some of the topics to be a review of what was covered there, seen through the lens of self-driving cars. But, most of the course focuses on topics we've never covered before, specific to computer vision techniques used in autonomous vehicles. There are plenty of new, valuable skills to be learned here.
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Learning objectives
- Automatically detect lane markings in images
- Detect cars and pedestrians using a trained classifier and with svm
- Classify traffic signs using convolutional neural networks
- Identify other vehicles in images using template matching
- Build deep neural networks with tensorflow and keras
- Analyze and visualize data with numpy, pandas, matplotlib, and seaborn
- Process image data using opencv
- Calibrate cameras in python, correcting for distortion
- Sharpen and blur images with convolution
- Detect edges in images with sobel, laplace, and canny
- Transform images through translation, rotation, resizing, and perspective transform
- Extract image features with hog
- Detect object corners with harris
- Classify data with machine learning techniques including regression, decision trees, naive bayes, and svm
- Classify data with artificial neural networks and deep learning
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- Automatically detect lane markings in images
- Detect cars and pedestrians using a trained classifier and with svm
- Classify traffic signs using convolutional neural networks
- Identify other vehicles in images using template matching
- Build deep neural networks with tensorflow and keras
- Analyze and visualize data with numpy, pandas, matplotlib, and seaborn
- Process image data using opencv
- Calibrate cameras in python, correcting for distortion
- Sharpen and blur images with convolution
- Detect edges in images with sobel, laplace, and canny
- Transform images through translation, rotation, resizing, and perspective transform
- Extract image features with hog
- Detect object corners with harris
- Classify data with machine learning techniques including regression, decision trees, naive bayes, and svm
- Classify data with artificial neural networks and deep learning
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Syllabus
Write and execute Python code within a Jupyter Notebook using Anaconda.
Introduction
Get everything you need for the course installed: The Anaconda scientific Python development environment, the OpenCV computer vision package, the Tensorflow package for building artificial neural networks, and the code and data that make up the course materials.
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Syllabus
Get everything you need for the course installed: The Anaconda scientific Python development environment, the OpenCV computer vision package, the Tensorflow package for building artificial neural networks, and the code and data that make up the course materials.
Let's try out your new environment by doing real-time edge detection on a live video stream from your webcam, within a Jupyter notebook. We'll also do a quick overview of how Jupyter notebooks work.
We'll cover the history of self-driving cars, which starts in 1925 and includes a lot of exciting progress that's been largely forgotten!
We'll quickly review the course outline, and give some guidance on which sections you might be able so skip given your prior experience.
We'll briefly cover why whitespace is important in Python and how it's used, how to import packages of existing code libraries, and how to use lists in Python.
We'll continue diving into Python data structures with tuples and dictionaries, and examples of using them.
We'll cover the syntax of functions in Python, how to pass functions around as parameters, and lambda functions. We'll also see how boolean operations like equality and or work.
We'll see how for and while loops with in Python, and challenge you to a very simple exercise to practice what you've learned so far.
We'll walk through some examples of using the Pandas package, to slice and dice some fake video index data from cars.
We'll cover the different charts that MatPlotLib can produce from our data, and how to load and view images.
Seaborn both sits on top of Matplotlib to make it better, and introduces new kinds of visualization tools that can help you extract meaning from data. We'll walk through a bunch of examples using real fuel efficiency data for 2019 cars.
Let's discuss how machine learning works, and how it fits in with the world of AI and deep learning.
Learn how train/test and K-fold cross-validation helps us to prevent "overfitting" models to the data they were trained with.
We'll go in depth on how linear regression learns how to fit a line to observed data, to create a simple model we can use to predict new observations.
Let's use linear regression to build a model mapping road conditions to vehicle speed.
Logistic regression builds a model that classifies data into one of two categories.
Let's practice using logistic regression to predict whether a car should go fast or slow, given distance to an upcoming bump and its size.
Decision trees build up a flowchart-like model, that classifies data based on various decision points that branch off to others.
In this activity, we'll implement the example from the previous lecture of predicting hiring decisions based on candidate attributes, and also see what happens when we use decision trees for the same logistic regression sample of predicting vehicle speed for an upcoming bump in the road.
We'll cover Bayes Theorem and how it can help us understand conditional probabilities, and apply it to Naive Bayes to classify email as spam or "ham."
We'll build a real spam classifier using Naive Bayes, and see how it well it works on our problem of classifying vehicle speeds based on upcoming obstacles in the road.
Support Vector Machines use the "Kernel Trick" to classify data. Hyperparameter tuning becomes important to find the right kernel to use, and the right parameters for that kernel.
We'll apply SVC to our vehicle speed classification problem, and illustrate hyperparameter tuning to find the best kernel and best set of parameters to use.
We'll talk about what Deep Learning is, and how Tensorflow works at a low level.
We'll explore how to construct deep neural networks for binary and multi-class classification with Keras, the importance of normalizing your input data, and how one-hot encoding is used to translate categories into a representation that's compatible with neural nets.
We'll use Keras to easily experiment with a variety of network topologies to apply deep learning to our "car approaching a bump" classification problem.
We'll go into more depth on activation functions and why ReLU is popular, and cover techniques for preventing overfitting including Dropout layers.
We'll run our previous neural network longer to make some overfitting happen, and see how a Dropout layer in Keras can improve accuracy by preventing overfitting.
We'll introduce the concepts of CNN's, and how they are inspired by the biology of your visual cortex.
See how easy it is to implement a CNN using Tensorflow's Keras API.
Let's install tensorflow-gpu to make our CNN's run faster, and prepare our image data for training our CNN.
We'll classify real images from the cifar10 data set using our simple CNN, and analyze the results.
Max Pooling reduces image data down, which can dramatically speed up the processing of your CNN.
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Organize Your Course Materials
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Review all course materials.
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Identify key concepts, resources, and due dates.
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Develop a filing system for notes, assignments, and references.
Practice Writing Python Code
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Gain proficiency in writing Python code by practicing regularly.
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Install Python and a development environment.
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Complete online coding challenges.
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Join a coding community.
Join a Study Group for Self-Driving Cars
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Connect with other students and engage in discussions about self-driving cars to enhance your understanding.
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Find a study group or create one with fellow students.
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Establish regular meeting times and a communication platform.
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Discuss course materials, share knowledge, and work on projects together.
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Read the book's introduction and first chapter.
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Work through the book's exercises.
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Attend book club meetings to discuss the book's content.
Explore Advanced Topics in Computer Vision
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Expand your expertise in computer vision by exploring advanced topics through tutorials.
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Identify areas in computer vision where you want to gain more knowledge.
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Find reputable tutorials or online courses on those topics.
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Complete the tutorials and apply what you learn.
Build a Mini Self-Driving Car Simulator
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Apply your knowledge of computer vision and deep learning by building a scaled-down model of a self-driving car.
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Design the architecture of the simulator.
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Implement the simulator using Python and open-source libraries.
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Test the simulator and collect data.
Develop a Prototype for a Self-Driving Car Feature
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Put your skills to the test by designing and building a prototype for a specific self-driving car feature.
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Identify a specific problem or feature you want to address.
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Research existing solutions and develop an innovative approach.
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Design and implement the prototype using Python and open-source libraries.
Organize Your Course Materials
Show steps
Stay organized and maximize your learning by establishing a system for your course materials.
Show steps
- Review all course materials.
- Identify key concepts, resources, and due dates.
- Develop a filing system for notes, assignments, and references.
Practice Writing Python Code
Show steps
Gain proficiency in writing Python code by practicing regularly.
Show steps
- Install Python and a development environment.
- Complete online coding challenges.
- Join a coding community.
Join a Study Group for Self-Driving Cars
Show steps
Connect with other students and engage in discussions about self-driving cars to enhance your understanding.
Show steps
- Find a study group or create one with fellow students.
- Establish regular meeting times and a communication platform.
- Discuss course materials, share knowledge, and work on projects together.
Review Deep Learning
Show steps
Solidify your foundational knowledge on deep learning by reviewing the leading textbook on the subject.
View
Deep Learning
on Amazon
Show steps
- Read the book's introduction and first chapter.
- Work through the book's exercises.
- Attend book club meetings to discuss the book's content.
Explore Advanced Topics in Computer Vision
Show steps
Expand your expertise in computer vision by exploring advanced topics through tutorials.
Show steps
- Identify areas in computer vision where you want to gain more knowledge.
- Find reputable tutorials or online courses on those topics.
- Complete the tutorials and apply what you learn.
Build a Mini Self-Driving Car Simulator
Show steps
Apply your knowledge of computer vision and deep learning by building a scaled-down model of a self-driving car.
Show steps
- Design the architecture of the simulator.
- Implement the simulator using Python and open-source libraries.
- Test the simulator and collect data.
Develop a Prototype for a Self-Driving Car Feature
Show steps
Put your skills to the test by designing and building a prototype for a specific self-driving car feature.
Show steps
- Identify a specific problem or feature you want to address.
- Research existing solutions and develop an innovative approach.
- Design and implement the prototype using Python and open-source libraries.
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