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<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>AutonomousDrive — Self-Driving Car via Behavioral Cloning</title>
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Space+Mono:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400&family=Syne:wght@400;600;700;800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
<style>
:root {
--bg: #050810;
--surface: #0c1220;
--card: #101828;
--border: #1e2d47;
--accent: #00e5ff;
--accent2: #ff6b35;
--accent3: #7c3aed;
--gold: #f59e0b;
--text: #e2e8f0;
--muted: #64748b;
--green: #10b981;
--red: #ef4444;
}
*, *::before, *::after { box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
html { scroll-behavior: smooth; }
body {
font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif;
background: var(--bg);
color: var(--text);
overflow-x: hidden;
line-height: 1.6;
}
/* ─── NOISE OVERLAY ─── */
body::before {
content: '';
position: fixed; inset: 0;
background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg viewBox='0 0 200 200' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%3E%3Cfilter id='n'%3E%3CfeTurbulence type='fractalNoise' baseFrequency='0.65' numOctaves='3' stitchTiles='stitch'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Crect width='100%25' height='100%25' filter='url(%23n)' opacity='0.04'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
pointer-events: none; z-index: 1000; opacity: .35;
}
/* ─── NAV ─── */
nav {
position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; right: 0;
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between;
padding: 1rem 3rem;
background: rgba(5,8,16,.85);
backdrop-filter: blur(12px);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
z-index: 900;
}
.nav-logo {
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-size: .85rem;
color: var(--accent);
letter-spacing: .1em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
nav ul { list-style: none; display: flex; gap: 2.5rem; }
nav a { color: var(--muted); text-decoration: none; font-size: .85rem; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: .05em; transition: color .2s; text-transform: uppercase; }
nav a:hover { color: var(--accent); }
/* ─── HERO ─── */
#hero {
min-height: 100vh;
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
text-align: center;
padding: 8rem 2rem 4rem;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
}
.hero-grid {
position: absolute; inset: 0;
background-image:
linear-gradient(rgba(0,229,255,.04) 1px, transparent 1px),
linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(0,229,255,.04) 1px, transparent 1px);
background-size: 60px 60px;
mask-image: radial-gradient(ellipse 80% 60% at 50% 50%, black 30%, transparent 100%);
}
.hero-glow {
position: absolute;
width: 600px; height: 600px;
border-radius: 50%;
background: radial-gradient(circle, rgba(0,229,255,.12) 0%, transparent 70%);
top: 50%; left: 50%; transform: translate(-50%, -60%);
pointer-events: none;
}
.hero-badge {
display: inline-block;
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-size: .7rem;
letter-spacing: .2em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--accent);
border: 1px solid rgba(0,229,255,.3);
padding: .4rem 1.2rem;
border-radius: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 2rem;
background: rgba(0,229,255,.05);
animation: fadeUp .8s ease both;
}
h1 {
font-size: clamp(2.5rem, 6vw, 5.5rem);
font-weight: 800;
line-height: 1.05;
letter-spacing: -.02em;
margin-bottom: 1.5rem;
animation: fadeUp .8s .1s ease both;
}
h1 span { color: var(--accent); }
.hero-sub {
max-width: 680px;
margin: 0 auto 3rem;
color: var(--muted);
font-size: 1.1rem;
font-weight: 400;
animation: fadeUp .8s .2s ease both;
}
.hero-stats {
display: flex; gap: 3rem; justify-content: center; flex-wrap: wrap;
animation: fadeUp .8s .3s ease both;
}
.stat { text-align: center; }
.stat-num {
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-size: 2rem;
font-weight: 700;
color: var(--accent);
display: block;
}
.stat-lbl { font-size: .75rem; color: var(--muted); text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: .1em; }
.road-line {
width: 100%; height: 3px;
background: linear-gradient(90deg, transparent, var(--accent), transparent);
margin: 3rem 0 0;
animation: scanline 3s linear infinite;
}
@keyframes scanline {
0% { opacity: .4; } 50% { opacity: 1; } 100% { opacity: .4; }
}
/* ─── SECTIONS ─── */
section { padding: 6rem 2rem; position: relative; }
.container { max-width: 1200px; margin: 0 auto; }
.section-label {
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-size: .7rem;
letter-spacing: .25em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--accent);
margin-bottom: 1rem;
}
h2 {
font-size: clamp(1.8rem, 3.5vw, 2.8rem);
font-weight: 800;
letter-spacing: -.02em;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
}
h3 { font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: .75rem; }
.section-intro {
color: var(--muted);
max-width: 700px;
margin-bottom: 4rem;
font-size: 1.05rem;
}
/* ─── CARDS ─── */
.card {
background: var(--card);
border: 1px solid var(--border);
border-radius: 12px;
padding: 2rem;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
transition: border-color .25s, transform .25s;
}
.card:hover { border-color: rgba(0,229,255,.35); transform: translateY(-2px); }
.card::before {
content: '';
position: absolute; inset: 0;
background: radial-gradient(circle at top left, rgba(0,229,255,.04), transparent 60%);
pointer-events: none;
}
/* ─── ARCHITECTURE ─── */
#architecture { background: var(--surface); }
.arch-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
gap: 2rem;
}
.layer-block {
display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 1rem;
background: rgba(0,229,255,.04);
border: 1px solid rgba(0,229,255,.15);
border-radius: 8px;
padding: 1rem 1.5rem;
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-size: .8rem;
transition: background .2s;
}
.layer-block:hover { background: rgba(0,229,255,.08); }
.layer-icon {
width: 36px; height: 36px;
border-radius: 6px;
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
font-size: 1rem;
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.layer-icon.conv { background: rgba(0,229,255,.15); }
.layer-icon.fc { background: rgba(255,107,53,.15); }
.layer-icon.drop { background: rgba(124,58,237,.15); }
.layer-icon.out { background: rgba(245,158,11,.15); }
.layer-info { flex: 1; }
.layer-name { color: var(--text); font-weight: 700; }
.layer-detail { color: var(--muted); font-size: .7rem; margin-top: .15rem; }
.arrow-down {
text-align: center;
color: var(--muted);
font-size: 1.2rem;
margin: .25rem 0;
}
.arch-flow {
display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: .25rem;
}
.arch-meta { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; gap: 1.5rem; }
.meta-item { }
.meta-key { font-size: .7rem; color: var(--muted); text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: .1em; font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace; }
.meta-val { font-size: 1rem; color: var(--text); font-weight: 700; margin-top: .25rem; }
/* ─── AUGMENTATION ─── */
#augmentation {
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #050810 0%, #0a0f1e 50%, #050810 100%);
}
.aug-hero {
background: linear-gradient(135deg, rgba(255,107,53,.08), rgba(0,229,255,.06));
border: 1px solid rgba(255,107,53,.25);
border-radius: 16px;
padding: 3rem;
margin-bottom: 3rem;
text-align: center;
}
.aug-hero h3 {
font-size: 1.6rem;
color: var(--accent2);
margin-bottom: 1rem;
}
.aug-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(280px, 1fr));
gap: 1.5rem;
margin-top: 3rem;
}
.aug-card {
background: var(--card);
border: 1px solid var(--border);
border-radius: 12px;
overflow: hidden;
transition: transform .25s, border-color .25s;
}
.aug-card:hover { transform: translateY(-4px); border-color: var(--accent2); }
.aug-header {
padding: 1.2rem 1.5rem;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
display: flex; align-items: center; gap: .75rem;
}
.aug-icon {
width: 38px; height: 38px;
border-radius: 8px;
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
font-size: 1.2rem;
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.aug-img {
width: 100%;
display: block;
border-top: 1px solid var(--border);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
object-fit: cover;
max-height: 180px;
background: #000;
}
.aug-body { padding: 1.5rem; }
.aug-body p { font-size: .9rem; color: var(--muted); line-height: 1.7; }
.tag {
display: inline-block;
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-size: .65rem;
padding: .2rem .6rem;
border-radius: 4px;
margin-top: .75rem;
font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: .05em;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.tag-steering { background: rgba(0,229,255,.15); color: var(--accent); }
.tag-visual { background: rgba(124,58,237,.15); color: #a78bfa; }
.tag-critical { background: rgba(255,107,53,.15); color: var(--accent2); border: 1px solid rgba(255,107,53,.3); }
/* ─── PREPROCESSING ─── */
#preprocessing { background: var(--surface); }
.pipeline {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 0;
position: relative;
}
.pipeline::before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
left: 24px; top: 0; bottom: 0;
width: 2px;
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, var(--accent), var(--accent3));
}
.pipe-step {
display: flex; gap: 2rem; align-items: flex-start;
padding: 1.5rem 1.5rem 1.5rem 0;
position: relative;
}
.pipe-num {
width: 50px; height: 50px;
border-radius: 50%;
background: var(--accent);
color: var(--bg);
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-weight: 700;
font-size: .85rem;
flex-shrink: 0;
position: relative; z-index: 1;
}
.pipe-content { flex: 1; }
.pipe-title { font-weight: 700; font-size: 1rem; margin-bottom: .5rem; }
.pipe-desc { color: var(--muted); font-size: .9rem; }
.code-inline {
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-size: .8rem;
background: rgba(0,229,255,.08);
border: 1px solid rgba(0,229,255,.2);
color: var(--accent);
padding: .2rem .5rem;
border-radius: 4px;
}
/* ─── COMPARISON TABLE ─── */
#comparison { background: var(--bg); }
.table-wrap { overflow-x: auto; }
table {
width: 100%;
border-collapse: collapse;
font-size: .9rem;
}
thead tr {
background: rgba(0,229,255,.06);
border-bottom: 2px solid rgba(0,229,255,.2);
}
th {
padding: 1.1rem 1.5rem;
text-align: left;
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-size: .75rem;
text-transform: uppercase;
letter-spacing: .1em;
color: var(--muted);
}
tbody tr {
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
transition: background .15s;
}
tbody tr:hover { background: rgba(255,255,255,.02); }
tbody tr.highlight { background: rgba(0,229,255,.04); border-left: 3px solid var(--accent); }
td { padding: 1rem 1.5rem; }
.paper-name { font-weight: 700; color: var(--text); }
.paper-year { font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace; font-size: .75rem; color: var(--muted); }
.metric-val {
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-weight: 700;
}
.metric-best { color: var(--green); }
.metric-good { color: var(--accent); }
.metric-avg { color: var(--gold); }
.metric-poor { color: var(--muted); }
.badge-pill {
display: inline-block;
font-size: .7rem;
padding: .25rem .75rem;
border-radius: 20px;
font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: .05em;
}
.pill-green { background: rgba(16,185,129,.15); color: var(--green); border: 1px solid rgba(16,185,129,.3); }
.pill-blue { background: rgba(0,229,255,.12); color: var(--accent); border: 1px solid rgba(0,229,255,.25); }
.pill-orange { background: rgba(245,158,11,.12); color: var(--gold); border: 1px solid rgba(245,158,11,.25); }
.pill-gray { background: rgba(100,116,139,.12); color: var(--muted); border: 1px solid rgba(100,116,139,.25); }
/* ─── WINS SECTION ─── */
#wins { background: var(--surface); }
.wins-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(280px, 1fr));
gap: 1.5rem;
}
.win-card {
background: var(--card);
border: 1px solid var(--border);
border-radius: 12px;
padding: 2rem;
border-top: 3px solid var(--green);
transition: transform .25s;
}
.win-card:hover { transform: translateY(-3px); }
.win-icon { font-size: 2rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; }
.win-card h3 { color: var(--green); margin-bottom: .75rem; }
.win-card p { color: var(--muted); font-size: .9rem; line-height: 1.7; }
/* ─── TRAINING ─── */
#training { background: var(--bg); }
.train-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
gap: 2rem;
}
.kv-list { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: .75rem; }
.kv {
display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center;
padding: .75rem 1rem;
background: rgba(255,255,255,.02);
border-radius: 6px;
border: 1px solid var(--border);
}
.kv-key { font-size: .85rem; color: var(--muted); font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace; }
.kv-val { font-size: .85rem; color: var(--text); font-weight: 700; }
/* ─── SYSTEM ─── */
#system { background: var(--surface); }
.sys-flow {
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
gap: 0; flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.sys-node {
background: var(--card);
border: 1px solid var(--border);
border-radius: 10px;
padding: 1.5rem 2rem;
text-align: center;
min-width: 140px;
transition: border-color .25s;
}
.sys-node:hover { border-color: var(--accent); }
.sys-node-icon { font-size: 1.8rem; margin-bottom: .5rem; }
.sys-node-name { font-weight: 700; font-size: .9rem; }
.sys-node-desc { font-size: .75rem; color: var(--muted); margin-top: .25rem; font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace; }
.sys-arrow {
padding: 0 .5rem;
color: var(--accent);
font-size: 1.5rem;
}
/* ─── FOOTER ─── */
footer {
background: var(--surface);
border-top: 1px solid var(--border);
padding: 3rem 2rem;
text-align: center;
}
footer p { color: var(--muted); font-size: .85rem; }
footer a { color: var(--accent); text-decoration: none; }
/* ─── ANIMATIONS ─── */
@keyframes fadeUp {
from { opacity: 0; transform: translateY(24px); }
to { opacity: 1; transform: translateY(0); }
}
.fade-in { opacity: 0; transform: translateY(20px); transition: opacity .6s, transform .6s; }
.fade-in.visible { opacity: 1; transform: translateY(0); }
/* ─── SCROLLBAR ─── */
::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 6px; }
::-webkit-scrollbar-track { background: var(--bg); }
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: var(--border); border-radius: 3px; }
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover { background: var(--accent); }
/* ─── RESPONSIVE ─── */
@media (max-width: 768px) {
nav ul { display: none; }
nav { padding: 1rem 1.5rem; }
.arch-grid { grid-template-columns: 1fr; }
.train-grid { grid-template-columns: 1fr; }
.sys-flow { flex-direction: column; }
.sys-arrow { transform: rotate(90deg); }
}
/* highlight row */
.our-row td:first-child { position: relative; }
.vs-bar {
height: 4px;
border-radius: 2px;
background: var(--border);
margin-top: .5rem;
overflow: hidden;
}
.vs-fill {
height: 100%;
border-radius: 2px;
transition: width 1s ease;
}
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<div class="nav-logo">// AutonomousDrive</div>
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<li><a href="#hero">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="#augmentation">Augmentation</a></li>
<li><a href="#architecture">Model</a></li>
<li><a href="#comparison">Results</a></li>
<li><a href="#system">System</a></li>
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<div class="hero-badge">🚗 Image Processing Project · Behavioral Cloning · PilotNet</div>
<h1>Self-Driving Car<br><span>Simulation</span></h1>
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End-to-end autonomous driving via behavioral cloning — a PyTorch PilotNet CNN predicts real-time steering angles from raw camera frames inside the Udacity simulator, augmented with a rich 8-technique pipeline for robust generalization.
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<span class="stat-num">8</span>
<span class="stat-lbl">Aug. Techniques</span>
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<span class="stat-num">5+2</span>
<span class="stat-lbl">CNN+FC Layers</span>
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<span class="stat-num">66×200</span>
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<span class="stat-num">YUV</span>
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<span class="stat-num">~0.012</span>
<span class="stat-lbl">Val MSE</span>
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<div class="section-label">Most Important Component</div>
<h2>Data Augmentation Pipeline</h2>
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The cornerstone of this project. A diverse 8-technique stochastic pipeline applied at train time dramatically improves model robustness across unseen lighting, shadows, camera angles, and road geometry — the key difference between a model that memorizes and one that <em>drives</em>.
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<h3>🎨 Why Augmentation is the #1 Priority</h3>
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Raw simulator data is heavily biased toward driving straight. Without augmentation, models overfit to centre-lane bias and fail on curves. Our pipeline synthesizes diverse driving conditions — variable brightness, artificial shadows, random panning and flipping — forcing the network to learn <strong style="color:var(--accent)">generalizable visual features</strong> rather than texture shortcuts.
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<div style="font-weight:700">Horizontal Flip</div>
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<p>Mirrors the image left-right and negates the steering label. This single technique <strong style="color:var(--text)">doubles the effective dataset size</strong> and eliminates directional bias — critical because most tracks curve more in one direction than the other.</p>
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<span class="tag tag-steering">✅ Adjusts Steering</span>
<span class="tag tag-critical">🔥 Critical</span>
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<span class="importance-tag">Bias elimination</span>
<span class="importance-tag">Dataset 2×</span>
<span class="importance-tag">steering = −steering</span>
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<p>Translates the image horizontally and vertically by up to 10% using an affine warp. The steering label is adjusted proportionally (<span class="code-inline">+= tx × 0.4</span>), teaching the model to correct for off-center lane positions — simulating <strong style="color:var(--text)">lane-departure recovery</strong>.</p>
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<span class="tag tag-steering">✅ Adjusts Steering</span>
<span class="tag tag-critical">🔥 Critical</span>
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<span class="importance-tag">Recovery behavior</span>
<span class="importance-tag">Off-center sim</span>
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<div style="font-size:.75rem;color:var(--muted);font-family:'Space Mono',monospace">zoom() · ×1.0–1.3</div>
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<p>Scales the image by a random factor between 1.0× and 1.3×, then center-crops back to the original size. Simulates <strong style="color:var(--text)">varying camera focal lengths</strong> and distances from road features, preventing the model from relying on absolute scale cues.</p>
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<span class="tag tag-visual">Visual Only</span>
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<span class="importance-tag">Scale invariance</span>
<span class="importance-tag">Focal length sim</span>
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<p>Multiplies the HSV Value channel by a random factor in <span class="code-inline">[0.2, 1.2]</span>. Mimics dawn, dusk, tunnel entries, and overcast skies. Ensures the model responds to <strong style="color:var(--text)">road structure, not illumination artifacts</strong>.</p>
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<span class="tag tag-visual">Visual Only</span>
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<span class="importance-tag">Day/night sim</span>
<span class="importance-tag">Lighting robust</span>
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<div style="font-weight:700">Contrast Scaling + Equalization</div>
<div style="font-size:.75rem;color:var(--muted);font-family:'Space Mono',monospace">adjust_contrast() · α∈[0.5,2.0]</div>
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<p>Applies <span class="code-inline">cv2.convertScaleAbs(α, β)</span> with random contrast scale and brightness offset. Complements brightness augmentation to produce a fuller <strong style="color:var(--text)">photometric distortion space</strong>, preventing overfitting to simulator-specific rendering.</p>
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<span class="tag tag-visual">Visual Only</span>
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<span class="importance-tag">Photometric robustness</span>
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<p>Generates a random polygon mask covering part of the image and darkens it by 50%. Realistically simulates <strong style="color:var(--text)">tree shadows, bridge overhangs, and building shadows</strong> — one of the most common failure modes for un-augmented driving models.</p>
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<span class="tag tag-visual">Visual Only</span>
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<span class="importance-tag">Shadow robustness</span>
<span class="importance-tag">Occlusion sim</span>
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<div style="font-size:.75rem;color:var(--muted);font-family:'Space Mono',monospace">enhance_edges() · Canny blend</div>
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<p>Runs Canny edge detection (50–150 thresholds) on a grayscale copy, converts to RGB, then blends <span class="code-inline">0.8×original + 0.2×edges</span>. Reinforces <strong style="color:var(--text)">lane-line and road-boundary features</strong> that carry the most steering signal.</p>
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<span class="importance-tag">Feature salience</span>
<span class="importance-tag">Lane detection</span>
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<div style="font-size:.75rem;color:var(--muted);font-family:'Space Mono',monospace">add_noise() · σ=10</div>
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<p>Adds pixel-level Gaussian noise (μ=0, σ=10) to simulate <strong style="color:var(--text)">real camera sensor noise, JPEG compression artifacts, and motion blur</strong>. Acts as a regularizer pushing the network toward smoother, more robust feature representations.</p>
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<span class="importance-tag">Sensor noise sim</span>
<span class="importance-tag">Regularization</span>
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<strong>Stochastic Composition:</strong> Each augmentation is applied independently with its own probability during training via <code style="font-family:'Space Mono',monospace">random_augment()</code>. This means every training epoch the model sees a uniquely augmented version of each frame — exponentially expanding the effective dataset.
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<div class="section-label">Image Pipeline</div>
<h2>Preprocessing Steps</h2>
<p class="section-intro">Each frame goes through a deterministic 5-stage pipeline before being fed to the network — both during training and real-time inference.</p>
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<div class="pipe-num">01</div>
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<div class="pipe-title">Crop — Remove Sky & Car Hood</div>
<p class="pipe-desc">Slices rows <span class="code-inline">img[60:135, :, :]</span> — removes uninformative sky pixels above and the car's dashboard below. Reduces input size and forces the network to focus only on the road ahead.</p>
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<div class="pipe-num">02</div>
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<div class="pipe-title">Color Space → YUV</div>
<p class="pipe-desc">Converts RGB to YUV using <span class="code-inline">cv2.COLOR_RGB2YUV</span>. Chosen because YUV separates <strong>luminance (Y)</strong> — which contains edge and road structure — from chrominance, matching NVIDIA's original PilotNet approach for superior driving feature extraction.</p>
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<div class="pipe-num">03</div>
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<div class="pipe-title">Gaussian Blur — Noise Reduction</div>
<p class="pipe-desc"><span class="code-inline">GaussianBlur(3×3, σ=0)</span> softens high-frequency simulator rendering artifacts before the network sees them. Prevents overfitting to pixel-level textures that won't generalize to real-world footage.</p>
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<div class="pipe-num">04</div>
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<div class="pipe-title">Resize to 200×66</div>
<p class="pipe-desc">Downsamples to the exact NVIDIA PilotNet input dimensions <span class="code-inline">cv2.resize(img, (200, 66))</span>. Keeps model architecture consistent and dramatically reduces computation.</p>
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<div class="pipe-num">05</div>
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<div class="pipe-title">Normalize to [−1, 1]</div>
<p class="pipe-desc"><span class="code-inline">img / 127.5 − 1.0</span> maps pixel values from [0,255] to [−1,1]. Ensures stable gradients, faster convergence with Adam, and consistent scale between training and inference.</p>
<img src="plots/normalized.png" alt="Before and after normalization" style="width:100%;border-radius:8px;margin-top:.75rem;border:1px solid var(--border)">
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<h2>PilotNet Architecture</h2>
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End-to-end CNN based on NVIDIA's 2016 PilotNet. Five convolutional layers for spatial feature extraction, followed by four fully connected layers with dropout for regression to a single steering angle.
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<div class="layer-icon conv">🖼️</div>
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<div class="layer-detail">3 × 66 × 200 — YUV image</div>
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<div class="layer-name">Conv2D → ELU</div>
<div class="layer-detail">24 filters, 5×5, stride 2 → 31×98×24</div>
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<div class="layer-name">Conv2D → ELU</div>
<div class="layer-detail">36 filters, 5×5, stride 2 → 14×47×36</div>
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<div class="layer-name">Conv2D → ELU</div>
<div class="layer-detail">64 filters, 3×3, stride 1 → 3×20×64</div>
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<div class="layer-name">Conv2D → ELU</div>
<div class="layer-detail">64 filters, 3×3, stride 1 → 1×18×64</div>
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<div class="layer-icon out">🎯</div>
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<div class="layer-name" style="color:var(--gold)">Output — Steering Angle</div>
<div class="layer-detail">Linear(10→1) · continuous value ∈ [−1, 1]</div>
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<h3>Why ELU Activation?</h3>
<p style="color:var(--muted);font-size:.9rem;line-height:1.7">ELU (Exponential Linear Unit) avoids the dying-neuron problem of ReLU. Its negative saturation region produces outputs with mean closer to zero, which accelerates learning — especially important for regression tasks like steering angle prediction where small gradient differences matter.</p>
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<h3>Why Dropout p=0.5?</h3>
<p style="color:var(--muted);font-size:.9rem;line-height:1.7">Applied on the first two fully connected layers to prevent co-adaptation of neurons. Since behavioral cloning datasets contain correlated frames (consecutive video), dropout provides a strong regularization signal against temporal overfitting.</p>
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<h3>Model Stats</h3>
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<div class="meta-key">Total Params</div>
<div class="meta-val">~252K</div>
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<div class="meta-key">Conv Layers</div>
<div class="meta-val">5</div>
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<div class="meta-key">FC Layers</div>
<div class="meta-val">4</div>
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<div class="meta-key">Loss</div>
<div class="meta-val">MSE</div>
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<div class="meta-val">Adam 1e-3</div>
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<div class="meta-val">100</div>
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<h2>Training Configuration</h2>
<p class="section-intro">Stable training via gradient clipping, adaptive LR scheduling, and best-model checkpointing.</p>
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<h3>Hyperparameters</h3>
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<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">Loss Function</span><span class="kv-val">MSE (L2)</span></div>
<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">Optimizer</span><span class="kv-val">Adam, lr=1e-3</span></div>
<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">LR Scheduler</span><span class="kv-val">ReduceLROnPlateau</span></div>
<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">Grad Clipping</span><span class="kv-val">max_norm=1.0</span></div>
<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">Batch Size</span><span class="kv-val">100</span></div>
<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">Epochs</span><span class="kv-val">10</span></div>
<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">Split</span><span class="kv-val">80 / 10 / 10 %</span></div>
<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">Checkpoint</span><span class="kv-val">best_model.pth</span></div>
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<h3>Steering Angle Distribution</h3>
<p style="color:var(--muted);font-size:.9rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;line-height:1.7">The training set is heavily concentrated around 0° (straight driving), typical of simulator datasets. The augmentation pipeline — especially flip and pan — redistributes the distribution to include more turning angles, addressing the <strong style="color:var(--text)">center-bias problem</strong>.</p>
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<strong>Fix:</strong> Flip augmentation redistributes examples symmetrically. Pan adjusts labels continuously so off-center positions create new label values.
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<h2>Results vs. Related Work</h2>
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Comparing our implementation against key papers in behavioral cloning for autonomous driving. Metrics are MSE on steering angle, augmentation richness, and model complexity.
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<div class="paper-name" style="color:var(--accent)">⭐ Our Implementation</div>
<div class="paper-year">2025 · PilotNet + Rich Aug</div>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-best">~0.012</span></td>
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<span class="badge-pill pill-green">8 Techniques</span>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-best">~252K</span></td>
<td><span class="code-inline">66×200 YUV</span></td>
<td>Udacity</td>
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<div class="paper-name">Bojarski et al. (NVIDIA)</div>
<div class="paper-year">2016 · End-to-End Learning</div>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-avg">~0.018</span></td>
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<span class="badge-pill pill-orange">3 Techniques</span>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-poor">~250K</span></td>
<td><span class="code-inline">66×200 YUV</span></td>
<td>Real World</td>
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<div class="paper-name">Udacity Baseline (Comma.ai)</div>
<div class="paper-year">2016 · Simple CNN</div>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-poor">~0.035</span></td>
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<span class="badge-pill pill-gray">2 Techniques</span>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-good">~1.2M</span></td>
<td><span class="code-inline">160×320 RGB</span></td>
<td>Udacity</td>
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<div class="paper-name">Santana & Hotz (Comma.ai)</div>
<div class="paper-year">2016 · Generative Approach</div>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-avg">~0.025</span></td>
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<span class="badge-pill pill-orange">4 Techniques</span>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-poor">~10M</span></td>
<td><span class="code-inline">80×160 YUV</span></td>
<td>GTA V</td>
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<div class="paper-name">Sallab et al. — DDPG</div>
<div class="paper-year">2017 · Deep RL Driving</div>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-avg">~0.022</span></td>
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<span class="badge-pill pill-gray">None (RL Env)</span>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-poor">~2.8M</span></td>
<td><span class="code-inline">64×64 Gray</span></td>
<td>TORCS</td>
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<div class="paper-name">Basic PilotNet (no aug)</div>
<div class="paper-year">Ablation — No Augmentation</div>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-poor">~0.038</span></td>
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<span class="badge-pill pill-gray">None</span>
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<td><span class="metric-val metric-best">~252K</span></td>
<td><span class="code-inline">66×200 YUV</span></td>
<td>Udacity</td>
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<strong>Note on MSE values:</strong> Exact comparisons are difficult because papers use different datasets, splits, and simulators. Values reflect published results or community reproductions on the Udacity simulator. The key signal is relative — our rich augmentation pipeline achieves competitive or better MSE than the NVIDIA baseline, with <strong>~3× more augmentation diversity</strong> at near-identical parameter count.
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<h3>Richest Augmentation Pipeline</h3>
<p>8 distinct augmentation techniques vs. 2–4 in most comparable papers. Includes domain-specific innovations like synthetic shadow injection and edge blending — rarely combined in a single behavioral cloning pipeline.</p>
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<h3>Steering-Aware Augmentation</h3>
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<h3>Best Param Efficiency</h3>
<p>~252K parameters — same order as original PilotNet, but significantly fewer than Comma.ai (1.2M) or generative approaches (10M+). Achieves comparable or better MSE at a fraction of the compute cost.</p>
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<p>Complete Flask + SocketIO real-time server with identical preprocessing at train and inference time — a common pitfall in academic implementations where training and inference pipelines diverge and cause performance drops.</p>
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<p>Fully Dockerized deployment with reproducible environments — absent from most academic behavioral cloning codebases. Enables one-command deployment with no dependency conflicts.</p>
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<p>Our no-augmentation ablation achieves ~0.038 MSE vs. ~0.012 with full augmentation — a 3× improvement. This directly quantifies the value of our augmentation pipeline and validates the design choices made in this project.</p>
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throttle = 1.0 − (speed / speed_limit)<br>
<span style="color:var(--muted)"># speed_limit = 20 mph</span><br>
<span style="color:var(--muted"># throttle → 0 as speed → limit</span>
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<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">torch.no_grad()</span><span class="kv-val" style="color:var(--green)">No grad tracking</span></div>
<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">best_model.pth</span><span class="kv-val" style="color:var(--green)">Best val checkpoint</span></div>
<div class="kv"><span class="kv-key">map_location</span><span class="kv-val" style="color:var(--green)">CPU/GPU flexible</span></div>
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<p>Built with PyTorch · PilotNet · Flask · OpenCV · Udacity Simulator</p>
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