2nd PReVENT Fusion Forum Workshop 

Paris, 14-15 March 2007

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Objectives

ProFusion2 workshop took place under the activities of the Fusion Forum which includes organizations and experts from Europe. Through the Fusion Forum, ProFusion2 will ensure the exchange of expertise from diverse groups, such as OEMs, suppliers and research communities and complement the expertise of PReVENT partners bringing them together with sensor data fusion experts.

The topics of the 2nd Fusion Forum Workshop were:

• Research advances on sensor data fusion in automotive safety applications
• Deployment of sensor data fusion in future applications
• Presentation of the ProFusion2 project and its results
• Establishment and promotion of the Fusion Forum activities

The topics were addressed through:

• Keynote speeches from academia and industry worldwide on sensor data fusion
• Advances and deployment
• Presentations from ProFusion2 Consortium on sensor data fusion activities
• Poster session, demonstrating results from sensor data fusion activities.

The workshop hosted plenary talks, while one hour per day was devoted to a poster session/demonstration session of the research work taking place inside ProFusion2.

Sessions & Presentations

Session 1: Opening and introductory talks
Chair: Dr. Aris Polychronopoulos

• Message from the Commission, Irmgard Heiber (EC)
• PReVENT Integrated Project - Part 1, PReVENT Coordinator, Matthias Schultze (DaimlerChrysler)
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• Activities of the Fusion Forum, Aris Polychronopoulos (ICCS)
• ProFusion2: Sensor Data Fusion for Mutiple Customers, Su-Birm Park (DELPHI)
• Open discussion: attendees had the opportunity to talk for their research activities and discuss lively with the panel

Poster and Demos

Session 2: Industrial Session
Chair: Kay Fuerstenberg

•  The SAFEPROBE Approach to Cooperative Data Fusion, Christian Zott (Robert Bosch)
• “Fusion: Co-operation of sensor knowledge”, Florian Foelster (Continental)
• Evaluation of perception systems, Dirk Dickmanns (BMW Group)
• “Sensor fusion and dynamic maps for perception sensing in off-road applications”,  Shrikant Rao (Honeywell)

Session 3: Industrial Session
Chair: Fabio Tango

• “Future research activities in Europe”, Aria Etemad (Ford)
• Threat assessment for colision avoidance, Andreas Eidehall (Volvo)
• “From Low speed maneuvering to Lighting Systems: sensor collaboration could provide assistance to the driver anytime ”, Benoist Fleury (VALEO)
• Open discussion

Session 4: ProFusion R&D Session
Chair: Dr. Su-Birm Park

• ProFusion2: Techniques for robust environment perception based on early sensor data, Thomas Tatschke (FORWISS)
• ProFusion2: Multi-leve fusion, Ullrich Scheunert (University of Chemnitz)
• ProFusion2: On the Data Association issue of Track Level Fusion, Nikos Floudas (ICCS)
• ProFusion2: Grid based approach for Fusion & Multi Objects Tracking, Olivier Aycard (University Joseph Fourier - Grenoble)

Session 5: Research session
Chair: Dr. Erich Fuchs

• Recent works at Ecole des Mines de Paris on data fysuibn V2V abd V2I, Claude Laurgeau (Ecole des Mines)
• Extended object tracking using radar detections, Joakim Gunnarsson (Chalmers University)
• Detection and Tracking Based on Finite-Set Statistics Theory (FISST), Mirko Maehlisch (University of Ulm)
• The Skovde Information Fusion Research Programme, Sten Andler (Skoevde University)

Poster and Demos

Session 6: Maps as predictive sensors
Dr. Maxime Flament

•  MAPS&ADAS project, Karsten Heinig (Hannover University)
•  Local dynamic maps concept, Christine Bartels (Teleatlas)
• “Information fusion for road geometry extraction”, Aris Polychronopoulos (ICCS)
• “The SASPENCE project” Fabio Tango (CRF)

Workshop Location

Delphi France
64 avenue de la Plaine de France
BP 65059 Tremblay en France, 95972 ROISSY CDG Cedex

Contact

Chair and organizer of the workshop:
Dr. Aris Polychronopoulos
ICCS, GREECE
Tel : +30 2107723865
E-mail : [email protected]

ProFusion2 leader:
Dr. Su-Birm Park
DELPHI ELECTRONICS & SAFETY
Tel : +49 202 291 4484
e-mail : [email protected]
 
on behalf of PReVENT ProFusion2 Consortium