Or carmakers could utilise the technology to make autonomous cars safer and more reactive to their immediate environment. That’s the goal for Prof. Daniel Cremers, Chair for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition with TUM’s Informatics department.
Cremers’ trailblazing research into mathematical image pro-cessing and pattern recognition earned him the 2016 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize – Germany’s most esteemed award in the sciences.
His question: How can we use a camera to capture and “recover” the 3D world and reconstruct it in real time? The answer? It might lie in something called “Direct Image Alignment,” which is a core component of his current research into realising the 3D world in images – faster, with greater accuracy and with more robustness.