Imagry, a mapless autonomous driving solution is possible
Summary
A new generation of software may bring about the breakthrough: location-independent autonomous driving, without infrastructure and mobile phone charges, without space-consuming data storage, but with self-learning artificial intelligence: this reduces the cost of autonomous driving functions for levels 3 and 4. Israeli start-up Imagry aims to give a new impetus to autonomous driving, unveiling an innovative technology based on artificial intelligence. Two key elements make this technological advancement possible: a real-time image recognition system that uses video footage to create a reliable top-down view of the vehicle’s surroundings, and a spatial DCNN (Deep Convolutional Neural Network) that learns to drive by mimicking human driving behavior. The new technology will be used in two pilot programs for autonomous buses and shuttle services. The second program involves an autonomous bus capable of traveling on a public road.