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Sensor Fusion for the Safety of Automated Driving Systems

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicular Sensing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 4277

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School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: authentication; automated driving security; mobile security

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Institute for Cyber Security, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles has been continually delayed due to safety concerns. To enhance the safety of automated driving systems, sensor fusion plays a crucial role in integrating data from various sensors like cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonic, GPS, and IMUs. By combining information from these sensors, automated vehicles can have a more comprehensive understanding of their surroundings, enabling better decision-making and improving overall system reliability. Sensor fusion helps in accurately detecting objects, predicting their movements, and ensuring the vehicle operates safely in diverse driving conditions.

This Special Issue was conceived to further the state-of-the-art in sensor fusion architecture, technology, and algorithms for autonomous driving to achieve safety, robustness, and efficiency in autonomous vehicles. In recent years, sensor fusion technology has made great progress and promoted the development of safety and reliability in autonomous driving. However, these technologies have strict autonomous driving system hardware and software requirements, which inevitably increases the complexity of the systems. To this end, we welcome submissions of various advanced multi-sensor fusion approaches for perception tasks such as object detection, semantic segmentation, object classification, depth completion, and prediction, which can be used to improve the safety and robustness of autonomous driving systems while keeping costs as controllable as possible.

Dr. Man Zhou
Dr. Weina Niu
Dr. Xin Liu
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Keywords

  • autonomous driving
  • safety and robustness
  • autonomous driving system security
  • sensor data security
  • sensor fusion architecture
  • cameras
  • LiDAR
  • radar

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Real-Time Fatigue Detection Algorithms Using Machine Learning for Yawning and Eye State
by Fazliddin Makhmudov, Dilmurod Turimov, Munis Xamidov, Fayzullo Nazarov and Young-Im Cho
Sensors 2024, 24(23), 7810; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24237810 - 6 Dec 2024
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 4052
Abstract
Drowsiness while driving is a major factor contributing to traffic accidents, resulting in reduced cognitive performance and increased risk. This article gives a complete analysis of a real-time, non-intrusive sleepiness detection system based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The device analyses video data [...] Read more.
Drowsiness while driving is a major factor contributing to traffic accidents, resulting in reduced cognitive performance and increased risk. This article gives a complete analysis of a real-time, non-intrusive sleepiness detection system based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The device analyses video data recorded from an in-vehicle camera to monitor drivers’ facial expressions and detect fatigue indicators such as yawning and eye states. The system is built on a strong architecture and was trained using a diversified dataset under varying lighting circumstances and facial angles. It uses Haar cascade classifiers for facial area extraction and advanced image processing algorithms for fatigue diagnosis. The results demonstrate that the system obtained a 96.54% testing accuracy, demonstrating the efficiency of using behavioural indicators such as yawning frequency and eye state detection to improve performance. The findings show that CNN-based architectures can address major public safety concerns, such as minimizing accidents caused by drowsy driving. This study not only emphasizes the need of deep learning in establishing dependable and practical driver monitoring systems, but it also lays the groundwork for future improvements, such as the incorporation of new behavioural and physiological measurements. The suggested solution is a big step towards increasing road safety and reducing the risks associated with driver weariness. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Fusion for the Safety of Automated Driving Systems)
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