Juan Carlos Jiménez
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Perception for autonomous driving

A visual recognition system for autonomous driving: pedestrians, distance and lane markings in real time, in bad weather.

Context
Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Europea
Role
Solo
Year
2024
Stack
YOLO · CUDA · OpenCV · CNN · Python

The problem

Perception that works on a sunny test video fails at night, in fog, snow or rain, or with the sun low on the horizon.

What I did

A GPU-accelerated YOLO model for pedestrians with dynamic distance estimation, a Canny and Hough lane pipeline tuned for adverse conditions, and an NLP voice assistant with geolocation.

What changed

Real-time detection that holds up in low light, snow and fog. It is the computer vision half of how I work.