I am a Software Developer, Technical Animator and Machine Learning enthusiast with more than 10 years of experience in the visual effects industry - simulating natural phenomena, setting up data pipelines and improving workflows.

The goal of this project is to safely navigate around a virtual highway with other traffic that is driving +-10 MPH of the 50 MPH speed limit.

Vehicle detection from a monocular RGB video input using two different approaches - Supervised Learning (Support Vector Machine) and Deep Learning.

Teaching a Convolutional Neural Network to drive a car in a simulator.

Before I embarked on my career change into Autonomous Driving, I worked for 10 years in the Visual Effects Industry for several companies. I was part of small, agile teams on tight deadlines as well as large corporations with over a thousand employees. I simulated natural phenomena (cloth, hair, fur), wrote python tools and UIs as well as C++ plugins for third party applications mainly dealing with deformation of 3-dimensional geometry.