Hi there,

Today, we have an exciting announcement to make about Computer Vision for self-driving cars!

Specifically, we're going to talk about Multi-Task Learning and HydraNets!

And to introduce the topic, we will show you a benchmark of 2 Computer Vision models running on an NVIDIA GPU on 3 different configurations.

  • In the first configuration, we're running a semantic segmentation model.
  • On the second configuration, we're stacking a monocular depth estimation model to it.
  • In the third configuration, we're building a HydraNet capable of doing both tasks at the same time. 

Now look at the results:

The first configuration works well, but we are only doing one task.

As soon as we're adding another task in parallel, we're consuming our entire GPU and losing in FPS.

And this is fixed by the HydraNet architecture.

Because instead of doing this:

We're doing this:

Today, the PyImageSearch Team brings back self-driving car expert Jeremy Cohen to the University to teach you about multi-task learning models for self-driving cars!

Jeremy is the founder of Think Autonomous, an online course platform for "cutting-edge engineers." In addition, he has been helping many PyImageSearch University students build intermediate skills in Computer Vision through his mini-courses.

He is the first external expert to teach on the PyImageSearch platform, and today, he is returning to PyImageSearch University to introduce a new course.

In the new mini-course, you'll learn how to build multi-task learning models for Computer Vision so that you can build cutting-edge models for companies like Tesla or Google.

Earlier this month, we released the course for existing PyImageSearch University students, and some of them have already completed it.

Here's a preview of how your project will look:

You can probably see why we're so excited about this course.  Approximately 55% of new PyImageSearch University students say they want to finish their first class in a day. Our team took the HydraNets course and finished it in a day and loved it, so we think this could be a great first course for you to take.

As a University member, this and future courses are included in your membership.  Pretty cool, huh?

If you're committed to learning about the future of Deep Learning with us in 2022, then press the button:

Start the course


PyImageSearch Team