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Category Archives: AI
Crowdsourced Database of Street-Level Imagery
Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company’s blog. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed. … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, AI, AR/VR, artificial intelligence, Augmented reality, Business Development, Consumer, Data, Mapping, Open Source, Orgs, Sensors, Software, virtual reality, Visualization, Young Geospatial Professional
Tagged Apple, Atlas ML, facebook, Facebook Marketplace, free, Mapillary, OpenStreetMap, Papers with Code, Polar Rose, Scape, street-level imagery
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AV Test Initiative Will Encourage Failure Reporting
Federal safety regulators on Monday launched an effort to get companies working on autonomous vehicle – AV technology to share more data about the limits of their systems. From an article in Forbes by Greg Gardner. The National Highway Traffic … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, Admin, AI, artificial intelligence, Autonomous vehicles, Business Development, driverless vehicles, Education, Government, Laser Scanning, Lidar, Research, Safety, Technology, The Industry
Tagged AV Test Iniative, NHTSA, Partners for Automated Vehicle Education, PAVE, transportation, Waymo
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Toyota Smart Vehicle Strategy Could Be the Winner
The automobile world is in quiet retreat on the topic of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs). As an excellent article by Steve LeVine in Marker described, vehicle autonomy is closely linked with ride-sharing, and in the pandemic era we’re going through, … Continue reading
Posted in AI, artifical perception, artificial intelligence, Autonomous vehicles, Business Development, Consumer, Data, Deep Learning, driverless vehicles, Government, Laser Scanning, Lidar, Mapping, Research, Safety
Tagged Ford, GM, Musk, Tesla, Toyota Chauffer, Toyota Guardian, Toyota Research Institute
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Pokemon GO May Support iPhone 12 Pro Lidar
Today a datamined app file for the latest version of Pokemon GO showed imagery of a near-future feature. With one image (and some code clues from the code) we can see that Pokemon GO may have, and likely will have, … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, AI, AR/VR, artificial intelligence, Autonomous vehicles, Business Development, Consumer, Data, Entertainment, Games, Hardware, Laser Scanning, Lidar, Mapping, Research, Sensors, Software, Technology, Visualization, Young Geospatial Professional
Tagged Apple, Google Project Tango, iPhone 12, Niantic, PokeMiners, Pokemon GO, Pokestop
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FedTech is a Unique Start-up Platform
I received an email from an individual that is a volunteer with a very interesting program appropriately called FedTech since it seeks to match entrepreneurs with scientists and their IP who work at federal facilities such as NASA. I had … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, AI, airborne LiDAR, artificial intelligence, atmospheric, Business Development, Government, Lidar, machine learning, Mapping, remote sensing, Research, satellites, Sensors, Technology
Tagged FedTech, gas concentrations, inventions, NASA Goddard, Patents, start-ups
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Small Satellites – The Next Big Thing in Geospatial Innovation
For all of us in the geospatial industry an important milestone was achieved recently. It was a story on 60 Minutes which introduced the masses to the small satellite boom that is ever so quietly revolutionizing the collection of imagery … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, Agriculture, AI, Business Development, computer vision, Consumer, Data, Environmental, Feature Extraction, Forestry, Government, Mapping, military, Photogrammetry, remote sensing, Research, satellites, topography
Tagged 60 Minutes, change detection, NASA, Planet Labs
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Training Data for AVs is Key to Success
High-quality data is the fuel that powers AI algorithms. Without a continual flow of labeled training data, bottlenecks can occur and the algorithm will slowly get worse and add risk to the system. From an article in Tech Crunch by … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, AI, artifical perception, artificial intelligence, Autonomous vehicles, Business Development, computer vision, Consumer, Covid-19, Data, Deep Learning, driverless vehicles, Government, Hardware, Laser Scanning, Lidar, machine learning, Mapping, point clouds, Quality, Research, Safety, Sensors, Software, Technology, The Industry, training, Visualization
Tagged Airbnb, Cruise AV, Hesai, labeled data, open source, PandarGT lidar, PandaSet, Pinterest, Scale AI, Training Data Sets, Waymo, Zoox
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Apple Glasses Will Include Lidar to Support AR
It seems inevitable that Apple will someday release a set of AR Apple glasses, and today we have a set of rumors from YouTuber Jon Prosser of the “Front Page Tech” YouTube channel. Prosser is a fairly new leaker, but … Continue reading
Automotive Lidar Companies Analyzed – Will Consolidate
Part 1 (published 4/12/2020), dealt with the parallels between the automotive LiDAR and telecom optics investment booms, and posited that going forward, consolidation and pivots for LiDAR companies are inevitable. Part 2 (this article) discusses which types of companies will … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, AI, artifical perception, artificial intelligence, Autonomous vehicles, Business Development, computer vision, Data, driverless vehicles, Flash LiDAR, Hardware, Laser Scanning, Lidar, machine learning, Mapping, Mobile LiDAR, Research, Robots, Safety, Sensors, Software, solid state, solid state lidar, Technology, The Industry
Tagged Covid, FMCW, Ford, GM-Cruise, Ike, Kodiak, OEM, Quanergy Systems, ride hailing, Tesla, Velodyne Lidar, Waymo, Zoox
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