Timeliness
That this CVPR workshop is inter-disciplinary can be seen from the fact that not all speakers (and participants) would come from computer vision background.
Also, we believe this workshop is extremely timely because of several factors such as:
- Because of industrial application of deep networks, it has become imperative that safety guarantees are given. On the other hand, accidents with autonomous cars have brought safety of overall system into the centre of debate.
- Recent regulations and standards (especially ISO26262 updates, RAND report) have shed more light on why these networks need high level of certification (e.g., ASIL D certification for a pedestrian detection).
- Since the development of Reluplex and Planet, more avenues for scalable formal verification seem achievable for practical systems in foreseeable future.
- CVPR is a flagship conference of computer vision society. Most of the state-of-the-art deployment of vision-based systems in autonomous driving have originated here. Also, since a part of the strategy for certification is composing a parallel system with classical computer vision approaches, CVPR venue suits very well.
- Last but not the least, both academic contributions (such as Reluplex from David Dill's group) and industrial applications (such as several autonomous driving companies) have originated in California.
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