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In this work a learning algorithm for visual object tracking is presented. As object representation a fast computable set of Haar-like features is used and a weighted correlation is applied for the matching process. The object tracker utilizes the same set of features that is already calculated for object detection and thus it is possible to reuse features for detection and tracking. The feature's weight values are optimized for the tracking purpose by means of evolutionary strategies.Different tests of the object tracker on real-world sequences are presented using vehicles as example objects. Additionally, an object detection system and the integration of the object tracker into that system is described. Besides the system is based on a cascade of boosted classifiers, Haar and Triangle features, an adaptive sliding window and finally a Kalman filter.

Deployment of modern data-driven machine learning methods, most often realized by deep neural networks (DNNs), in safety-critical applications such as health care, industrial plant control, or autonomous driving is highly challenging due to numerous model-inherent shortcomings. These shortcomings are diverse and range from a lack of generalization over insufficient interpretability and implausible predictions to directed attacks by means of malicious inputs. Cyber-physical systems employing DNNs are therefore likely to suffer from so-called safety concerns, properties that preclude their deployment as no argument or experimental setup can help to assess the remaining risk. In recent years, an abundance of state-of-the-art techniques aiming to address these safety concerns has emerged. This chapter provides a structured and broad overview of them. We first identify categories of insufficiencies to then describe research activities aiming at their detection, quantification, or mitigation. Our work addresses machine learning experts and safety engineers alike: The former ones might profit from the broad range of machine learning topics covered and discussions on limitations of recent methods. The latter ones might gain insights into the specifics of modern machine learning methods. We hope that this contribution fuels discussions on desiderata for machine learning systems and strategies on how to help to advance existing approaches accordingly.