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GTC 21: Top 5 Automotive Technical Sessions

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  • NVIDIA GTC returns with a dedicated autonomous vehicle focus featuring speakers such as Audi Board Member Hildegard Wortmann, Zoox CTO Jesse Levinson, University of Toronto Professor Raquel Urtasun, and Cruise SVP of Engineering Mo ElShenawy.
  • The free five-day digital conference opens April 12 with CEO Jensen Huang's keynote and includes over 1,400 sessions covering technical deep dives and business leadership perspectives.
  • Highlighted sessions address deep-sensor fusion of thermal and visible cameras, safety and security standards integration with the NVIDIA DRIVE platform, autonomous valet parking development by Apex.AI, human-guided autonomous convoys for long-haul trucking, and synthetic data augmentation to reduce dataset bias.
  • NVIDIA DRIVE Developer Days follow from April 20-22 with deep-dive sessions on safe and robust autonomous vehicle development accessible through the GTC session catalog.

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  • Register for NVIDIA GTC to attend the autonomous vehicle sessions and keynote.
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NVIDIA GTC is returning with a special focus on autonomous vehicles, including talks from Audi Board Member Hildegard Wortmann, Zoox CTO Jesse Levinson, University of Toronto Professor Raquel Urtasun, and Cruise SVP of Engineering Mo ElShenawy. GTC is free to attend – you and your team can register here. 

This free five-day digital conference kicks off April 12 with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote followed by 1,400+ talks ranging from technical deep dives to business-focused talks by C-level leaders. You won’t want to miss it.

Here are some session highlights for autonomous vehicle development:

  1. Deep-Sensor Fusion of Thermal and Visible Cameras for Autonomous Driving

    See the latest research on fusing visual and thermal sensors for state-of-the-art segmentation accuracy in autonomous driving.

    Vijay John, Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute
  1. Understanding Safety and Security Standards for Autonomous Vehicles: An NVIDIA DRIVE Approach

    Learn how to more easily integrate the NVIDIA DRIVE platform into your safe and secure AV designs with NVIDIA’s safety approach.

    Karl Greb, Safety Engineering Director, NVIDIA
    Riccardo Mariani, VP of Industry Safety, NVIDIA
  1. Autonomous Valet Parking Powered by NVIDIA DRIVE

    This session will cover how Apex.AI developed a modular approach to production autonomous parking.

    Dejan Pangercic, CTO, Apex.AI
  1. Human-Guided Autonomous Convoys

    This presentation highlights the operations and challenges of deploying an autonomous convoy system for long-haul trucking.

    Cetin Mericli, CEO, Locomation
  1. Deflating Dataset Bias Using Synthetic Data Augmentation

    This session will show how targeted synthetic data augmentation can help fill gaps in static datasets for vision tasks.

    Nikita Jaipuria, Research Scientist, Ford Motor Company

Additionally, from April 20-22, be sure to check out NVIDIA DRIVE Developer Days, which will consist of deep dive sessions on safe and robust AV development. These are also FREE and will be available via the GTC session catalog.

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