Employing simulation environments for sensing performance evaluation – challenges and opportunities

To tackle the problem of verification and validation of autonomous vehicles, synthetic data generated in simulation environments can be employed to complement field testing, due to the fact that these environments are highly flexible and inexpensive. Although in recent years virtual environments have been employed by the community to develop and test ADAS/AD functionalities, such as AEB or ACC, there has been limited possibility to utilize synthetic data for sensing functions performance evaluation. This presentation will address the challenges and opportunities of simulation environments for verification and validation of camera-based sensing algorithms.