Artificial intelligence is taking the automotive industry by storm. For example, AI-powered robotaxis are expected to create a $2 trillion market worldwide by 2030, according to global financial services firm UBS.

This indicates one of the most prominent ways AI is revolutionizing the industry: the development of autonomous driving technology. Self-driving cars use camera-based machine vision systems and radar- and lidar-based detection units to perceive, understand, and safely navigate their surrounding environment.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to optimize performance of self-driving car perception applications such as lane navigation and pedestrian detection. You’ll learn to build and train a semantic segmentation neural network to identify objects such as roads, pedestrians, and other vehicles. Then, you’ll deploy the neural network on the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX™ platform to power autonomous navigation of a vehicle. Upon completion of the workshop, you’ll have the skills needed to build AI applications for a variety of autonomous driving scenarios, including highway driving, city roads, and parking.

Learning Objectives


By participating in this workshop, you’ll learn how to:
  • Run example code using different GPU memory configurations on the DRIVE AGX platform to determine which is most effective in a variety of use cases
  • Compare multiple methods of performance optimization using CUDA® and timed-inference test cases on the DRIVE AGX platform
  • Create and train a semantic segmentation network to understand automotive scenes by combining a fully convolutional network (FCN) “head” with a MobileNets convolutional neural network (CNN) “stem” 
  • Train a semantic segmentation model with the NVIDIA DIGITS tool using Cityscapes data to demonstrate pixel-wise semantic segmentation of scenes
  • Convert Keras and Tensorflow semantic segmentation models into optimized NVIDIA® TensorRT™ models that can be deployed for practical applications on the DRIVE AGX platform
  • Deploy and run an optimized TensorRT model on the DRIVE AGX platform to demonstrate the development and deployment workflow for DRIVE applications

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Workshop Outline

Introduction
(15 mins)
  • Meet the instructor.
  • Create an account at courses.nvidia.com/join
CUDA on DRIVE AGX
(120 mins)
    Learn techniques to improve GPU performance for DRIVE applications through memory management and optimization techniques:
    • Test and compare performance tradeoffs for conventional memory, pinned memory, and unified memory types.
    • Explore mixed-precision computation optimizations in inference.
    • Optimize performance using CUDA streams and load-balancing techniques.
Break (60 mins)
Training Semantic Segmentation for DRIVE
(120 mins)
    Explore how to build and train an FCN for semantic segmentation and deploy it to analyze automotive scenes:
    • Build a semantic segmentation FCN based on a conventional CNN in TensorFlow.
    • Prepare a Cityscapes dataset to train an FCN using DIGITS.
    • Train an FCN in DIGITS and test it using inference to observe the resulting pixel-level semantic segmentation of the scenes.
Break (15 mins)
Deployment of a Semantic Segmentation Network Using TensorRT
(120 mins)
    Learn the TensorRT development workflow for an autonomous driving semantic segmentation use case:
    • Optimize a pre-trained semantic segmentation model built with Keras to TensorRT for an embedded system.
    • Test and compare performance and accuracy across the Keras implementation, TensorRT FP32, and TensorRT INT8.
    • Build a calibration dataset and deploy the model to the embedded target system for additional performance comparisons.
Assessment and Q&A (15 mins)
 

Workshop Details

Duration: 8 hours

Price: Contact us for pricing.  

Prerequisites:

  • Familiarity with C++ and Python
  • Experience with convolutional neural networks (CNNs)

Suggested materials to satisfy prerequisites:  C++ Tutorial, Python Tutorial, Convolutional Neural Network

Technologies: TensorFlow, Keras, NVIDIA TensorRT, CUDA C++, Python, NVIDIA DIGITS, 

Certificate: Upon successful completion of the assessment, participants will receive an NVIDIA DLI certificate to recognize their subject matter competency and support professional career growth.

Hardware Requirements: Desktop or laptop computer capable of running the latest version of Chrome or Firefox. Each participant will be provided with dedicated access to a fully configured, GPU-accelerated server in the cloud.

Languages: English, Simplified Chinese

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