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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Research @ Porsche Digital Campus |
| 3 | +date: 2023-12-18 |
| 4 | +image: /assets/blog/pdc/hero.jpg |
| 5 | +descriptionShort: The Porsche Digital Campus is an innovative initiative with the goal of bringing together research and real-world application in the fields of AI, machine learning, and data science. |
| 6 | +author: |
| 7 | + name: Porsche Digital Campus |
| 8 | + description: The Porsche Digital Campus is an innovative initiative with the goal of bringing together research and real-world application in the fields of AI, machine learning, and data science. |
| 9 | + image: https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/6419a4c2c9609e21b02a47e8/6454e539d4ea54c08e42aedb_Frame%2010683.png |
| 10 | + slug: https://campus.porsche.digital/ |
| 11 | +readTime: 3min |
| 12 | +--- |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +<ImageText imageSrc="/assets/blog/pdc/team.jpg" imageAlt="Porsche Digital Campus" theme="light" |
| 15 | + title="Tell us a little more about yourself, your role at Porsche Digital and what topics drive you. "> |
| 16 | + We are the research team and part of the Porsche Digital Campus: An |
| 17 | + international group of software technology experts with a clear focus on the |
| 18 | + application of artificial intelligence as well quantum computing. |
| 19 | +</ImageText> |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +<ImageText imageSrc="/assets/blog/pdc/1.png" imageAlt="Porsche Digital Campus" theme="light" left |
| 22 | + title="Porsche Digital has published several research projects in the field of artificial intelligence on GitHub. How would you explain these projects to a five-year-old? What problem do these projects solve for Porsche?"> |
| 23 | + For the [first project](https://github.com/porscheofficial/sls_sat_solving_with_deep_learning), “Using deep learning to construct stochastic local |
| 24 | + search SAT solvers with performance bounds”, imagine you have a tricky |
| 25 | + puzzle. Computers have a special friend, like a magical helper, that helps |
| 26 | + them solve these puzzles faster and better! We built a magical helper that |
| 27 | + is really smart and can learn the best way to solve more difficult puzzles |
| 28 | + quickly. So, with this helper, computers can play and finish more tough |
| 29 | + puzzles in less time! It’s like having a super-smart friend to help you with |
| 30 | + your games! |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + For the [second project](https://github.com/porscheofficial/distribution_and_volume_based_isolation_forest), “Distribution and volume based scoring for Isolation |
| 33 | + Forest’, imagine you have a super-smart robot that can find which toys are |
| 34 | + different from the others. We made this robot even smarter! The team taught it a |
| 35 | + new way to look at all the toys and find the different ones more accurately. We |
| 36 | + tested the new smart robot with lots of toys and found out it can spot the |
| 37 | + different ones even better than before! So, it’s like having an upgraded robot |
| 38 | + friend who’s really good at finding unique toys! |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | + For the [third project](https://github.com/porscheofficial/speed-estimation-traffic-monitoring), “FARSEC: A Reproducible Framework for Automatic Real-Time |
| 41 | + Vehicle Speed Estimation Using Traffic Cameras”, imagine you have a smart camera |
| 42 | + that can watch cars and see how fast they are going. This is important to help |
| 43 | + cars move smoothly on the road and to keep everyone safe. Some smart cameras are |
| 44 | + good but can only work well with certain videos. In this project, we developed a |
| 45 | + new software algorithm for smart cameras that can work well with many different |
| 46 | + videos and can understand how fast cars are going even if the camera is moving. |
| 47 | + This new camera is easy to use and can be made even smarter in the future! |
| 48 | +</ImageText> |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +<ImageText imageSrc="/assets/blog/pdc/2.png" imageAlt="Porsche Digital Campus" theme="light" |
| 51 | + title="By publishing AI research projects as open-source projects, you’ve made a big step ahead in our FOSS movement. What was your initial motivation to take this path? Can you tell us why you’ve chosen to release your project on GitHub?"> |
| 52 | + Today, providing the code and data necessary to reproduce the results |
| 53 | + presented in a research paper is a necessary requirement for scientific |
| 54 | + credibility. So being able to make our code available alongside our |
| 55 | + publications is absolute key to establishing that our work is as credible as |
| 56 | + that of academic institutions. Porsche’s official [GitHub organization](https://github.com/porscheofficial) |
| 57 | + is the perfect place to do so. |
| 58 | +</ImageText> |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +<ImageText imageSrc="/assets/blog/pdc/3.png" imageAlt="Porsche Digital Campus" theme="light" left |
| 61 | + title="What did you learn along the way? What were the benefits of this strategy for you, your team and Porsche Digital?"> |
| 62 | + We were very keen to see the results of the research. Knowing that we would |
| 63 | + make the code public was exciting and the team paid even more attention to |
| 64 | + writing clean code, keeping the size of the repo manageable, and having |
| 65 | + sensible code structures. This, again, improved the quality of the code and |
| 66 | + hence the progress of the whole project. |
| 67 | +</ImageText> |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +<ImageText imageSrc="/assets/blog/pdc/4.png" imageAlt="Porsche Digital Campus" theme="light" |
| 70 | + title="With a glimpse into the future: What are your further plans regarding FOSS Contributions? Who would you like to see next joining our FOSS Contributor community?"> |
| 71 | + Publishing on GitHub will become the new default way of making the code for |
| 72 | + studies available alongside academic publications. So, keep your eyes |
| 73 | + peeled! |
| 74 | +</ImageText> |
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