TY - JOUR A1 - Molloy, Dara A1 - Müller, Patrick A1 - Deegan, Brian A1 - Mullins, Darragh A1 - Horgan, Jonathan A1 - Ward, Enda A1 - Jones, Edward A1 - Braun, Alexander A1 - Glavin, Martin T1 - Analysis of the Impact of Lens Blur on Safety-Critical Automotive Object Detection JF - IEEE Access N2 - Camera-based object detection is widely used in safety-critical applications such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle research. Road infrastructure has been designed for human vision, so computer vision, with RGB cameras, is a vital source of semantic information from the environment. Sensors, such as LIDAR and RADAR, are also often utilized for these applications; however, cameras provide a higher spatial resolution and color information. The spatial frequency response (SFR), or sharpness of a camera, utilized in object detection systems must be sufficient to allow a detection algorithm to localize objects in the environment over its lifetime reliably. This study explores the relationship between object detection performance and SFR. Six state-of-the-art object detection models are evaluated with varying levels of lens defocus. A novel raw image dataset is created and utilized, containing pedestrians and cars over a range of distances up to 100-m from the sensor. Object detection performance for each defocused dataset is analyzed over a range of distances to determine the minimum SFR necessary in each case. Results show that the relationship between object detection performance and lens blur is much more complex than previous studies have found due to lens field curvature, chromatic aberration, and astigmatisms. We have found that smaller objects are disproportionately impacted by lens blur, and different object detection models have differing levels of robustness to lens blur KW - DOAJ KW - Object detection KW - intelligent transportation system KW - autonomous vehicles KW - ADAS KW - lens blur Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-42999 SN - 2169-3536 VL - 12 SP - 3554 EP - 3569 PB - IEEE ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Geerkens, Simon A1 - Sieberichs, Christian A1 - Braun, Alexander A1 - Waschulzik, Thomas T1 - QI²: an interactive tool for data quality assurance JF - AI and Ethics N2 - The importance of high data quality is increasing with the growing impact and distribution of ML systems and big data. Also, the planned AI Act from the European commission defines challenging legal requirements for data quality especially for the market introduction of safety relevant ML systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach that supports the data quality assurance process of multiple data quality aspects. This approach enables the verification of quantitative data quality requirements. The concept and benefits are introduced and explained on small example data sets. How the method is applied is demonstrated on the well-known MNIST data set based an handwritten digits. KW - Performance metrics KW - HSD Publikationsfonds KW - DEAL KW - DFG Publikationskosten KW - Machine learning KW - Quality assurance KW - Data integrity KW - Data quality Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00390-6 SN - 2730-5961 N1 - Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 532148125 and supported by the central publication fund of Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences Data availability declaration: The data that support the findings of this scientific publication are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. PB - Springer Nature ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sieberichs, Christian A1 - Geerkens, Simon A1 - Braun, Alexander A1 - Waschulzik, Thomas T1 - ECS: an interactive tool for data quality assurance JF - AI and Ethics N2 - With the increasing capabilities of machine learning systems and their potential use in safety-critical systems, ensuring high-quality data is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, we present a novel approach for the assurance of data quality. For this purpose, the mathematical basics are first discussed and the approach is presented using multiple examples. This results in the detection of data points with potentially harmful properties for the use in safety-critical systems. KW - DEAL KW - HSD Publikationsfonds KW - Data visulization KW - Distance based KW - Data quality assurance KW - Equivalence class sets KW - DFG Publikationskosten Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00393-3 SN - 2730-5961 N1 - Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - 532148125 and supported by the central publication fund of Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences Data availability declaration: All data that support the findings of this scientific publication are available within this paper and/or its supplementary information files/materials. Otherwise: The data that support the findings of this scientific publication are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. PB - Springer Nature ER - TY - PAT A1 - Braun, Alexander A1 - Richwin, Matthias A1 - Weber, Thomas T1 - Optoelektronische Sensoreinrichtung für ein Kraftfahrzeug N2 - Beschrieben wird eine optoelektronische Sensoreinrichtung für ein Kraftfahrzeug zur unterscheidenden Detektion von Feuchtigkeit und Salzlösungen auf einer Fahrzeugscheibe, mit einer Beleuchtungseinheit zur Einstrahlung von Licht in eine Fahrzeugscheibe und mit einem Lichtempfänger, welcher von der Fahrzeugscheibe reflektiertes Licht erfasst, sowie mit einem Koppelelement zur Ein- und Auskopplung von Licht in bzw. aus der Fahrzeugscheibe, wobei die Beleuchtungseinrichtung Licht über einen Einfallswinkelbereich in die Fahrzeugscheibe einstrahlt, der sich über mehrere Winkelgrade erstreckt, wobei der Lichtempfänger eine Vielzahl von Empfangselementen aufweist, wobei ein optisches System das von der Fahrzeugscheibe in einen Ausfallswinkelbereich reflektierte Licht auf Empfangselemente des Lichtempfängers abbildet und wobei der Lichtempfänger ein Signal generiert, aus dem eine Auswertevorrichtung den Grenzwinkel der Totalreflexion an der Fahrzeugscheibe ermittelt. Y1 - 2009 UR - https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?action=bibdat&docid=DE102007052704A1 PB - Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brummel, Mattis A1 - Müller, Patrick A1 - Braun, Alexander T1 - Spatial precision and recall indices to assess the performance of instance segmentation algorithms JF - Electronic Imaging KW - Space-Variance KW - Computer Vision KW - IoU KW - image perturbations Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-41552 SN - 2470-1173 VL - 34 IS - 16 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - Society for Imaging Science and Technology ER - TY - INPR A1 - Geerkens, Simon A1 - Sieberichs, Christian A1 - Braun, Alexander A1 - Waschulzik, Thomas T1 - QI2 -- an Interactive Tool for Data Quality Assurance N2 - The importance of high data quality is increasing with the growing impact and distribution of ML systems and big data. Also the planned AI Act from the European commission defines challenging legal requirements for data quality especially for the market introduction of safety relevant ML systems. In this paper we introduce a novel approach that supports the data quality assurance process of multiple data quality aspects. This approach enables the verification of quantitative data quality requirements. The concept and benefits are introduced and explained on small example data sets. How the method is applied is demonstrated on the well known MNIST data set based an handwritten digits. KW - Data Structures and Algorithms KW - Machine Learning KW - Computers and Society KW - Artificial Intelligence Y1 - 2023 CY - arXiv ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wohlers, Luis Constantin A1 - Müller, Patrick A1 - Braun, Alexander T1 - Original image noise reconstruction for spatially-varying filtered driving scenes JF - Electronic Imaging: Society for Imaging Science and Technology Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-41479 SN - 2470-1173 VL - 34 IS - 16 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - Society for Imaging Sciences and Technology ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Dominik Werner A1 - Ulrich, Markus A1 - Braun, Alexander T1 - Novel developments of refractive power measurement techniques in the automotive world JF - Metrologia N2 - Refractive power measurements serve as the primary quality standard in the automotive glazing industry. In the light of autonomous driving new optical metrics are becoming more and more popular for specifying optical quality requirements for the windshield. Nevertheless, the link between those quantities and the refractive power needs to be established in order to ensure a holistic requirement profile for the windshield. As a consequence, traceable high-resolution refractive power measurements are still required for the glass quality assessment. Standard measurement systems using Moiré patterns for refractive power monitoring in the automotive industry are highly resolution limited, wherefore they are insufficient for evaluating the camera window area. Consequently, there is a need for more sophisticated refractive power measurement systems that provide a higher spatial resolution. In addition, a calibration procedure has to be developed in order to guarantee for comparability of the measurement results. For increasing the resolution, a measurement setup based on an auto-correlation algorithm is tested in this paper. Furthermore, a calibration procedure is established by using a single reference lens with a nominal refractive power of 100 km-1. For the calibration of the entire measurement range of the system, the lens is tilted by an inclination angle orthogonal to the optical axis. The effective refractive power is then given by the Kerkhof model. By adopting the measurement and calibration procedure presented in this paper, glass suppliers in the automotive industry will be able to detect relevant manufacturing defects within the camera window area more accurately paving the way for a holistic quality assurance of the windshield for future advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) functionalities. Concurrently, the traceability of the measurement results is ensured by establishing a calibration chain based on a single reference lens, which is traced back to international standards. Y1 - 2023 UR - http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1681-7575/acf1a4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1681-7575/acf1a4 SN - 1681-7575 IS - ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT PB - IOP Publishing ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Müller, Patrick A1 - Braun, Alexander A1 - Keuper, Margret T1 - Impact of realistic properties of the point spread function on classification tasks to reveal a possible distribution shift T2 - NeurIPS 2022: Workshop on Distribution Shifts: Connecting Methods and Applications, December 3rd, 2022, New Orleans, USA KW - chromatic aberration KW - corruption KW - Deep Neural Networks KW - Distribution Shift KW - MTF Y1 - 2022 UR - https://openreview.net/forum?id=r7WJpE3oy0 CY - New Orleans ER - TY - INPR A1 - Sieberichs, Christian A1 - Geerkens, Simon A1 - Braun, Alexander A1 - Waschulzik, Thomas T1 - ECS -- an Interactive Tool for Data Quality Assurance N2 - With the increasing capabilities of machine learning systems and their potential use in safety-critical systems, ensuring high-quality data is becoming increasingly important. In this paper we present a novel approach for the assurance of data quality. For this purpose, the mathematical basics are first discussed and the approach is presented using multiple examples. This results in the detection of data points with potentially harmful properties for the use in safety-critical systems. KW - Artificial Intelligence KW - Machine Learning KW - PrePrint KW - Systems and Control Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.04368 PB - arXiv ER -