Seeing Machines and Ambarella collaborate on driver monitoring system solutions
Summary
As part of this collaboration, Seeing Machines will enable its embedded Driver Monitoring Engine (e-DME) software to provide a highly optimised, accelerated “back end.” This e-DME back end will utilise the CVflow acceleration engine inside Ambarella’s SoCs, allowing forward-facing ADAS camera designers to seamlessly integrate Seeing Machines’ proven OMS and DMS technology. This agreement marks the beginning of a strategic relationship where Ambarella and Seeing Machines intend to combine their skills, products, IP and experience in the domain of embedding AI vision algorithms to deliver driver and occupant monitoring system solutions. Paul McGlone, CEO at Seeing Machines commented: “The contextual information that can be gathered with the fusion of inward and outward facing sensing is an important area for us as we seek to advance our safety focused technology solutions. Ambarella has made significant advances in forward-facing sensing, with its recent Oculii radar technology acquisition and its collaborations in the algorithm space, to make this a really interesting opportunity for Seeing Machines. Leveraging the industry leading performance per watt of our CVflow AI perception SoCs and Seeing Machines’ sophisticated AI-based driver and occupant monitoring algorithms will enable automotive safety systems with the very highest levels of accuracy and reliability.”