The auto industry has not shown a lot of interest yet. First of all, the system must be 100 per cent reliable. Still, researchers from around the world are interested in this project. Dr. Lu receives many e-mails with requests for information. Traffic sign recognition is not the only computer vision systems project related to neural network.
Research also includes edge enhancement, texture analysis and visual speech recognition.
All of which are unique and interesting. Dr. Lu expressed his concern about the fact that there are less and less graduate students in Computer Science. Currently Dr. Lu is unable to work on all projects with the same efficiency because of the lack of students. They choose to pursue well-paid jobs rather than continue their studies.