Towards Socially Aware Autonomous Vehicles

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• Dr Munir Farzeen, Postdoc, Aalto University
• Tuesday 11 February 2025, 11:30-12:00
• Institute of Manufacturing (IfM), Seminar Room 1.

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Abstract:

Autonomous driving marks a transformative era in transportation, yet the challenge of developing systems that can adeptly navigate the unpredictable complexities of mixed traffic scenarios is significant. A key concern is the limited social and situational awareness, along with the inability to communicate both implicitly and explicitly with other road users, including pedestrians and human drivers, this talk discusses the complexities of human behavior modeling, including data-driven approaches and Virtual Reality (VR) studies as complementary methods. It highlights the challenges of integrating social context into AV decision-making and the limitations of the current model. The talk covers both fundamental and emerging approaches to modeling pedestrian-AV interactions and explores future directions for improving socially aware AVs. It concludes with a discussion of the broader implications of this research for the safety, trust, and acceptance of AVs in mixed-traffic environments.

Speakers bio:

Farzeen Munir is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Mobile Robotics Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. She is also affiliated with the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI). In 2022, she obtained her doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in South Korea. Her research focuses on machine learning, deep neural networks, autonomous driving, and representation learning, with a strong emphasis on developing intelligent systems for real-world applications.

This talk is part of the Cyber-Human Lab Seminar Series series.

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