ECCV 2020 Daily - Wednesday

15 around humans. That's exciting because these robots can help us with so many things. One thing I'm very interested in with autonomous driving is robots that make the cars safer for humans and pedestrians on the road. Researchers today are a little bit less optimistic than a couple of years ago, is that right? Everyone's really excited about autonomous driving technology, but we're finding that the problem is very, very hard. And even though we don't have those fully autonomous cars just yet, we've still made tremendous strides, and we can see this in everyday life. We can see that if you go buy a new car today, there are so many more different features and systems, and we don't think of those as robots; but they are, with the adaptive cruise control, the parking assistant… that's all new technology we've brought from research to our everyday cars. I interviewed Raquel Urtasun, who is leading Uber ATG in Toronto, and she gaveme a full vision of what AI would be able to do, not only with transportation but also with all surroundings, with cities, with our lives. It will be very exciting for you to understand what the robots will be able to do, what features should be developed… The way we designed the robot involves looking at what is the most important information the robot needs. What should it look for in the environment? How should it translate that information? One of our recent projects that we've looked at is pretty exciting, because when we think about interacting with human drivers, we have started to develop models that incorporate social psychology and account for the fact that every human is going to make decisions slightlydifferently than theother humans on the road. If we can incorporate these behavioral models, we can better understand what the human is going to do. Not only does it make it safer, if we can better understand humans, but then we can also start to give the robot the ability to make human-like decisions and respond in a predictable manner for the other drivers on the road. That's also safer for everyone else if the robot does things humans can anticipate. 3 Alyssa Pierson 2 DAILY W e d n e s d a y