Engineering students at the University of Leicester (www.le.ac.uk) have developed a miniature autonomous?drive-by-wire? It is a 1:6 scale version of the LUTZ Pathfinder Pod developed by the Transport Systems Catapult (TSC).

In the close future, algorithms will be able to infer even the situation implied?--?such as a kids party, a sports event, a business conference or a random arrangement of people in a park. The possible applications of computer vision are impressive: from autonomous cars which can'see' in 360 and understand their environment and its dynamics in real-time, to special applications like the Seeing AI by Microsoft?--?a prototype system helping people who are visually impaired or blind to understand their environment!