Thursday, Nov. 14, Noon to 1 p.m., virtual
Free to attend, registration required
Unintentional lane departures are a significant safety risk. This webinar will focus on a new app developed to warn drivers against inadvertently leaving their lane.
Currently, available commercial lane departure warning systems use vision-based or GPS technology with lane-level resolution. These techniques have their own performance limitations in poor weather conditions.
Imran Hayee, principal investigator and Victor Lund, technical liaison will discuss an LRRB project that addresses those limitations with the development of an innovative lane departure detection app that provides real-time warnings to drivers.
Speakers
Imran Hayee is a professor and chair of the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1999. Hayee worked in industry including Tyco Submarine Systems (formerly known as Bell Laboratories) and a startup company for almost six years before joining the University of Minnesota, Duluth in Fall 2004. His research areas of interest are communication systems, signal processing and intelligent transportation systems. He holds 19 US patents and has published more than 70 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences.
Vic Lund has more than 17 years of experience as the traffic engineer for St. Louis County, Minn. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Michigan Technological University in Civil Engineering, and his Master of Science Degree from Iowa State University in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Transportation Engineering. His experience includes rural and urban traffic safety, intersection design, intelligent transportation systems and transportation research. Lund was awarded the 2022 David P. Brand Safety Award from the National Association of County Engineers. He is the current chair of the Minnesota County Engineers Association Highway Safety Committee and serves frequently as a technical liaison for Local Road Research Board research projects.