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<p>The luxury car market has demanding product development standards aimed at providing state-of-the-art features in the automotive domain. Handling performance is amongst the most important properties that must be assessed when developing a new car model. In this work, we analyse the problem of predicting subjective evaluations of automobiles handling performances from objective records of driving sessions. A record is a multi-dimensional time series describing the temporal evolution of the mechanical state of an automobile. A categorical variable quantifies the evaluations of handling properties. We describe an original deep learning system, featuring a denoising autoencoder and hierarchical attention mechanisms, that we designed to solve this task. Attention mechanisms intrinsically compute probability distributions over their inputs’ components. Combining this feature with the saliency maps technique, our system can compute <italic>heatmaps</italic> that provide a visual aid to identify the physical events conditioning its predictions.</p>
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The luxury car market has demanding product development standards aimed at providing state-of-the-art features in the automotive domain. Handling performance is amongst the most important properties that must be assessed when developing a new car model. In this work, we analyse the problem of predicting subjective evaluations of automobiles handling performances from objective records of driving sessions. A record is a multi-dimensional time series describing the temporal evolution of the mechanical state of an automobile. A categorical variable quantifies the evaluations of handling properties. We describe an original deep learning system, featuring a denoising autoencoder and hierarchical attention mechanisms, that we designed to solve this task. Attention mechanisms intrinsically compute probability distributions over their inputs’ components. Combining this feature with the saliency maps technique, our system can compute heatmaps that provide a visual aid to identify the physical events conditioning its predictions.

Deep learning-assisted analysis of automobiles handling performances

Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche

Departement Informationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik

Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences

Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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The luxury car market has demanding product development standards aimed at providing state-of-the-art features in the automotive domain. Handling performance...

Deep learning-assisted analysis of automobiles handling performances

Publié en ligne: 24 déc. 2022

Pages: 78 - 95

Reçu: 26 avr. 2022

Accepté: 09 nov. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/caim-2022-0007

Mots clés
Automotive engineering, Automobiles design, Deep learning, Saliency maps, Attention mechanisms

© 2022 Davide Sapienza et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Deep learning-assisted analysis of automobiles handling performances

Publié en ligne: 24 déc. 2022

Pages: 78 - 95

Reçu: 26 avr. 2022

Accepté: 09 nov. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/caim-2022-0007

Mots clésAutomotive engineering, Automobiles design, Deep learning, Saliency maps, Attention mechanisms

© 2022 Davide Sapienza et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Automotive engineering, Automobiles design, Deep learning, Saliency maps, Attention mechanisms