Apple's AI Director talks about the technology related to automatic driving cars under development

Apple's CEO Tim CookWe are pursuing development aiming further ahead of the automatic driving car itselfIt was revealed. And, newly, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, director of Apple 's Artificial Intelligence (AI) study, talks about what we are aiming for in an automated driving car.

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Use the laser to grasp the positional relationship with surrounding objects "LiDAR"Technology is used in many automatic driving cars, and Apple is also developing this LiDAR. Apple on LiDAR in November 2017Research paperWas released.

In a paper published in November 2017, it was described how to build software to identify cars (green), pedestrians (yellow), and bicycles (light blue) by using LiDAR and machine learning.


Being Apple's AI directorRuslan SalakhutdinovAccording to Mr. Apple, the latest camera-based object recognition system under development, even when the lens is covered with rain, can accurately identify the object and even a pedestrian hidden behind the parked vehicle It seems that we could identify it. About this achievement, Mr. Salakhutdinov said, "If you asked" If such technology is feasible? "Five years ago, I would say" I can do it "although it is very skeptical," He said that he succeeded in developing technology that did not know how to realize it five years ago.

Also, in research projects other than LiDAR, we are using "autonomous machines"SLAMSalakhutdinov reveals that he is working on the development of software using technology called " SLAM is a technology used for autonomous robots and automobiles, and it also has applications related to mapping and augmented reality (AR).

In another project, it is said that it is creating a 3D map of the city including detailed information such as road signs. This is the data necessary for actually running the automatic driving car and it is thought that it was made based on the information collected by the automatic driving car unit that Apple is reporting that it is being tested on the public road I will.

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