Artificial Intelligence
Eye-tracking system uses ordinary smartphone camera
For the past 40 years, eye-tracking technology - which can determine where in a visual scene people are directing their gaze - has been widely used in psychological experiments and marketing research, but it’s required pricey hardware that has kept it from finding consumer applications.
Laser diode driver is suited for automotive HUDs
Projecting full-HD colour video onto the windshield at nearly twice the current of competitive solutions, the ISL78365 laser diode driver has been announced by Intersil. The ISL78365 pulses four high intensity lasers up to 750mA for automotive HUD systems. The device’s higher current and faster switching speed enables HUDs with high resolution, high colour-depth and high frame-rate projections.
Easing the path to evaluation and system development
Supplier of next generation system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, Socionext, has launched a new evaluation solution package for its 360° Wrap-Around View (WAV) system. The package combines the hardware, software and support services necessary for initial evaluation and development of the WAV system.
NXP demonstrates complete autonomous vehicle platform
Marking a significant milestone in the fast-approaching self-driving vehicles era, NXP Semiconductors has demonstrated a comprehensive and highly manufacturable autonomous vehicles platform leveraging NXP’s BlueBox engine and deploying NXP silicon and software solutions at each ADAS node. The system demonstration incorporates the BlueBox central computing engine, together with radar, lidar, and vision sensing, as well as an onboard secure V...
AI teaching assistant fools students
College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel teaches Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence (KBAI) every semester. It’s a core requirement of Georgia Tech’s online master’s of science in computer science programme. And every time he offers it, Goel estimates, his 300 or so students post roughly 10,000 messages in the online forums - far too many enquiries for him and his eight Teaching Assistants (TAs) to handle.
Electronic driver assistance system for trams
For tram drivers, every second on the job requires complete concentration. Heavy traffic conditions might lead to collisions with other trams, cars or trucks at any time. Soon, the first trams featuring the new Bosch technology that can actively prevent such accidents will enter into service in Frankfurt. The innovative driver assistance system warns tram drivers of any impending collision: if the driver brakes too late, or not at all, the system...
Software playing a key role in ADAS
The growing area of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for the automotive industry is benefiting from software tools and services for real time system design and development from Symtavision, a Luxoft subsidiary.
Self-driving trucks have tested successfully at up to 90 km/h
A self-driving truck under development by Scania and KTH researchers has tested successfully at speeds of up to 90 km/h. According to the research lead at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the successful tests are aimed at implementing self-driving Scania trucks in mining operations within a year or two. "We have come a long way with the work and have already proven with a real truck that the task is possible," says Bo Wahlberg, profes...
Can you detect a driverless car based on behaviour?
Members of the public are being sought to take part in a new study by the University of Southampton to understand people’s perceptions of automated vehicles. Participants will be required to view a series of four to five second videos of a car (a white Tesla Model S) making lane changes, while driving down the motorway, and to decide whether it is being driven by a human driver or a computer.
Kalman Filter acceleration IP core suits ADAS
EnSilica has launched a Kalman Filter acceleration IP core for use in situational awareness radar sensors for ADAS, such as electronic stability control systems, pre-crash impact mitigation, blind spot detection, lane departure detection and self-parking.