Brendan Morris, an ECE student working with Prof. Mohan Trivedi, is the winner of the 2009 Student Essay Competition by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America). Brendan`s paper deals with video based trajectory analysis for traffic pattern and vehicle classification, for safety enhancement. It shows how machine learning and vision algorithms can be used for predicting potentially dangerous situations in real-time. This research is sponsored by NSF, Volkswagen and UC Discovery. The award is the most prestigious recognition given to a student involved in the field of Intelligent Transportation and Intelligent Vehicles.
Interested in Research
At UC San Diego, you don’t have to wait until graduate school. You can do research alongside faculty, postdoctoral researchers, grad students and even researchers from industry. Lab research is integrated into the curriculum, and students can work in the school’s one-of-a-kind labs and research centers.
At UC San Diego, you don’t have to wait until graduate school. You can do research alongside faculty, postdoctoral researchers, grad students and even researchers from industry. Lab research is integrated into the curriculum, and students can work in the school’s one-of-a-kind labs and research centers.