DENSE: Environment Perception in Bad Weather—First Results

Werner Ritter; Mario  Bijelic; Tobias Gruber; Matti Kutila; Hanno Holzhüter

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-14156-1_12

DENSE: Environment Perception in Bad Weather—First Results

Werner Ritter^*
, Mario Bijelic
, Tobias Gruber
, Matti Kutila
, Hanno Holzhüter

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper presents the first results of the publicly funded ECSEL project DENSE (Adverse weather environmental sensing system). DENSE seeks to eliminate one of the most pressing problems of automated driving: the inability of current systems to sense their surroundings under all weather conditions. The task in DENSE is to develop a sensor suite for automatic driving, by means of which the vehicle environment can be reliably detected 24/7 under these bad weather conditions. In this paper, the state of the art of environmental sensor technology is first examined and evaluated in the CEREMA weather chamber. Then, the architecture of the DENSE Sensor Suite is presented and the development results of the most important system components are described. The results show that the realization of a 24/7 all-weather sensor suite is absolutely feasible with these components .

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Electronic Components and Systems for Automotive Applications
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress
Editors	Jochen Langheim
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	143-159
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-14156-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-14155-4, 978-3-030-14158-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14156-1_12
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2019
MoE publication type	A3 Part of a book or another research book
Event	5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress - Paris, France Duration: 5 Dec 2018 → 6 Dec 2018

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Series	Lecture Notes in Mobility
ISSN	2196-5544

Conference

Conference	5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	5/12/18 → 6/12/18

Funding

We would like to express our gratitude to the whole DENSE project (Grant Agreement number: 692449) Consortium for fruitful discussions on the designing of the DENSE architecture and its components. The project has been co-funded by ECSEL Joint Undertaking and national funding agencies like Business Finland and Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany.

Keywords

ADAS
automated driving
lidar
SWIR
neural networks
gated camera
adverse weather

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Ritter, W, Bijelic, M, Gruber, T, Kutila, M & Holzhüter, H 2019, DENSE: Environment Perception in Bad Weather—First Results. in J Langheim (ed.), Electronic Components and Systems for Automotive Applications: Proceedings of the 5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress. Springer, Cham, Lecture Notes in Mobility, pp. 143-159, 5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress, Paris, France, 5/12/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14156-1_12

DENSE: Environment Perception in Bad Weather—First Results. / Ritter, Werner; Bijelic, Mario; Gruber, Tobias et al.
Electronic Components and Systems for Automotive Applications: Proceedings of the 5th CESA Automotive Electronics Congress. ed. / Jochen Langheim. Cham: Springer, 2019. p. 143-159 (Lecture Notes in Mobility).

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