CSC2125:  Safety and Certification of Autonomous Vehicles

Winter 2019

Course Calendar


 

Week

Topic, papers, deliverables

Presenter

Reviewers

0.     Jan. 7

Org meeting

 

Marsha

 

1.    Jan. 14

Introduction to self-driving and safety


Marsha

 

2.    Jan. 21

Introduction to machine learning and verification

Marsha (verification) and Polina (machine learning)

 

 

3.    Jan. 28

Introduction to safety and certification


Marsha

 

4.    Feb. 4

List of 3-4 papers of interest due

Safety and Certification of machine-learned systems

 

 

Rick

 

 

 

5.    Feb. 11


Verification for Machine Learning, Autonomy, and Neural Networks Survey
 

 

AI2: Safety and Robustness Certification of Neural Networks with Abstract Interpretation  

 

Deeptest: Automated testing of deep-neural-network-driven autonomous cars.

 

Eric

 

Ali

 

Nils

 

Yasaman

Zi Yi

Eric

 

Nick

Rifat

Ali

 

Hazem

Nils

Yilin

      Feb. 18

Family day, no class

 

 

6.    Feb. 25

Project proposals due 

 

Autonomous Vehicle Safety: An Interdisciplinary Challenge

 

Software Engineering Challenges of Deep Learning

 

 

Why did my car just do that? Explaining semi-autonomous driving actions to improve driver understanding, trust, and performance

 

 

Yasaman

 

Yilin

 

Hazem

Tushar

Hazem

Yasaman

 

Zi

Yilin

 

Tushar

Rifat

Hazem

 

7.    Mar 4

Towards Cooperative Driving: Involving the Driver in an Autonomous Vehicle’s Decision Making

 

 

Requirements and Architectures for Secure Vehicles

 

 

Machine learning, social learning and the governance of self-driving cars.

Tushar

 

Zi Yi

 

Rifat

Eric

Hazem

 Tushar

 

Tushar

Yasaman

Zi Yi

 

Ali

Yilin

Rifat

 

8.    Mar 11

 

DeepXplore: Automated Whitebox Testing of Deep Learning Systems

 

 

Efficient Neural Network Robustness Certification with General Activation Functions

 

 

Deep neural networks are easily fooled: High confidence predictions for unrecognizable images

Eric

 

Ali

 

Nils

 

Ali

Nils

Eric



Ali


Ali

Rifat

Nils

 

9.    Mar 18

Marsha is away but Ramy and Rick are judging.

Problems of and principles for AI verification

 

(presented on April 18) Presentation by Michael Wong

 

(new) Internet of Vehicles

 

Nick

 

Michael

Yasaman

 

Yilin

 Zi

 

 

Eric

Yasaman

10.   Mar 25

(presented on April 18) Can Autonomous Vehicles Be Safe and Trustworthy? Effects of Appearance and Autonomy of Unmanned Driving Systems

(new) Semantic Adversarial Deep Learning

(new) Threat of Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning in Computer Vision: A Survey

Yasaman

 

 

Yilin

 

 

Hazem

 

Rifat

Yasaman

Zi

 

Eric

Yilin

 

Ali

Yilin

Hazem

 

11.  April 1

(new) DeepMutation: Mutation Testing of Deep Learning Systems

(new) DeepRoad: GAN-Based Metamorphic Testing and Input Validation Framework for Autonomous Driving Systems

 

(new) Springrobot: A prototype autonomous vehicle and its algorithms for lane detection.

 

Tushar


Zi Yi

Rifat

 

Hazem

Yasaman

Tushar

Nils

 

Yilin

Nils

Zi Yi

 

Tushar

Eric

Yasaman

Rifat

April 22

Project write-ups are due. 

 

 

April 29

Project presentations, 1-5 p.m., BA1230. Agenda.

 

 

 

 

Last updated April 26, 2019