The Globe and Mail article about edge cases
Prof. Krzysztof Czarnecki and Michał Antkiewicz were interviewed for a Jun 5, 2025 article titled "" by Kunal D'souza published in The Globe and Mail.
The article highlights the need for self-driving vehicles to understand and properly react to rare and potentially dangerous situations called edge cases. Currently, self-driving cars perform relatively well in common traffic situations. However, they get confused when an unusual situation occurs that was not included in the training data of the AI systems used on the car.
To be able to evaluate how self-driving cars deal with the edge cases, WISE Lab is working on a dataset containing 1000 curated and labelled videos and images of rare and dangerous traffic situations. Such a dataset can be used to measure how well a self-driving system can characterize hazardous conditions and take appropriate action. The more of these edge cases a self-driving car can handle, the safer it will be.