Master's thesis: Federated Self-Supervised Learning for Scalable Autonomous Driving

Background and project description

Autonomous vehicles generate massive amounts of multi-modal sensor data, including camera images, lidar point clouds, radar measurements, GPS information, and vehicle control signals. These heterogeneous data sources provide complementary information that is essential for robust perception, localization, and decision-making. However, transferring such large volumes of data to centralized servers is often impractical due to bandwidth limitations, storage costs, privacy concerns, and regulatory constraints. Federated Learning (FL) offers a distributed and privacy-preserving framework that enables multiple vehicles, fleets, or organizations to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their raw data. While FL has shown significant promise for autonomous driving applications, its effectiveness is often limited by the availability of high-quality labeled data. Deep learning-based perception modules require high-quality a...