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October 24, 2005

SAVE-U - End of the project
After 3 1/2 years of project, it is now over. This website will continue to provide information for a few months. Thanks for your visits.

July 21, 2005

SAVE-U - Final workshop (August 30, Nuneaton, Great Britain)
The SAVE-U workshop will present the final results of the project and will show the two demonstrator cars equipped with the sensor platform in operation on the MIRA test track.
Invitation and registration form:

Jun. 8, 2005

SAVE-U at ITS Hanover (June 1-3, Hanover, Germany)
Volkswagen was present at IST Hanover to show the Passat demonstrator vehicle on which partners have installed the full SAVE-U sensor platform. A paper was also presented at the technical session "Driver Assistance Systems - Parking and Pedestrians"
Paper:

SAVE-U at the 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation (March 15-16, 2005 Hamburg, Germany)
Volkswagen presented a paper, which describes mainly the basic concept for sensor fusion and the way the full SAVE-U sensor platform is integrated on the Passat demonstrator vehicle.
Paper:

Oct. 1, 2004

SAVE-U at SPIE Security & Defence conference (Oct. 26-27, 2004, London, Great Britain)
CEA-LETI will present the results of the work performed in the field of IR modelling. Within the framework of SAVE-U, a complete model of the infrared sensor was developed in order to investigate the impact of technical downgrading (e.g lower resolution) with regards to sensor cost and detection performance.
More information about Congress & Session:		Event web site
Paper:

Aug. 17, 2004

SAVE-U at IST 2004 (Nov. 15-17, 2004, The Hague, Netherlands)
Hosted by the Dutch Presidency of the European Union, the IST 2004 event will take place in The Hague, Netherlands, from 15 to 17 November 2004. During this event, Volkswagen will present their demonstration vehicle equipped with the SAVE-U sensing platform on the booth of the European Commission.
SAVE-U at the event:		SAVE-U page
More information about the event:		IST 2004 The Hague web site

Apr. 20, 2004

SAVE-U at Intelligent Vehicle 2004 (June 14-17, Parma, Italy)
DaimlerChrysler will present a paper focusing on the vision part and SAVE-U Configuration B (radar network and stereovision), describing the improvements from SAVE-U classification on the system performance. Volkswagen and SiemensVDO will present a joint paper, mainly dedicated to radar development and partly to sensor fusion.
DaimlerChrysler's paper
SiemensVDO & VW's paper
More information about the congress:		IEEE IV web site

SAVE-U at ITS Europe 2004 (May 24-26, Budapest, Hungary)
Faurecia will present the progress achieved in the project.
Abstract
Presentation
More information about the congress:		ITS in Europe 2004 web site

Nov. 12, 2003

SAVE-U at MICRO.tec 2003 (Oct 13-15, Munchen, Germany)
CEA has presented a paper on High-sensitivity Uncooled IRFPAs for Driver Vision Enhancement.
Paper
More information about the congress:		MICRO.tec 2003 web site

Apr. 10, 2003

SAVE-U at Intelligent Transport Systems & services 2003 congress (Nov 17-20, Madrid, Spain)
Faurecia will present in a joint paper the main objectives and firsts results of SAVE-U project.
Paper
More information about the congress:		ITS 2003 web site

SAVE-U at International Radar Symposium 2003 congress (Sept 30 - Oct 2, Dresden, Germany)
SiemensVDO Automotive & Volkswagen AG will present a joint paper with an overview on the SAVE-U multi-sensor configuration (IR and colour video cameras, radar), the low and high level data fusion and the 24 GHz radar network operation.
Paper
More information about the congress:		IRS 2003 web site

SAVE-U at Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2003 congress (May 22-23, Berlin, Germany)
CEA will present a paper "Infrared microbolometer sensors and their application in automotive safety".
Paper
More information about the congress:		AMAA website

Aug. 23, 2002

SAVE-U at e-Safety congress (Sept 16-17, 2002, Lyon, France)
Faurecia as coordinator of the project will give a presentation of the objectives of SAVE-U during the e-Safety congress.
Presentation.