Category Archives: AI

TRB AFB80 Summer Meeting is Just One Week Away

Posted on June 25, 2019 by lidar

TRB AFB80 is the standing committee focused on Geospatial Data Acquisition Technologies in Design and Construction relating to highway transportation. We will be meeting in Daytona, FL July 21 – 24, 2019 at the Daytona Hotel. Time to register for … Continue reading →

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Waymo CTO is Working on The Difficult Edge Cases

Posted on June 23, 2019 by lidar

Dmitri Dolgov, Waymo CTO is fighting the elements in his bid to bring autonomous cars to the world. The chief technology officer of Waymo, the Alphabet-owned firm born out of Google’s semi-secret X development lab, is at a point where … Continue reading →

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Cleaning of 3D Laser Scans with Machine Learning

Posted on June 20, 2019 by lidar

In this article, we introduce a semi-automated cleaning of 3D laser scans approach that incrementally trains a random forest (RF) classifier on an initial keep/discard point labeling generated by the user when cleaning the first scan(s). The classifier is then … Continue reading →

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Cruise is Sharing Data Visualization Platform

Posted on June 19, 2019 by lidar

Autonomous vehicle start-up Cruise is sharing a software platform with roboticists that was initially created to give its own engineers a better understanding of the petabytes of data generated every month from its fleet of autonomous vehicles. From an article … Continue reading →

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Second Annual World Safety Summit – Time to Register

Posted on June 18, 2019 by lidar

Velodyne Lidar is hosting the second annual World Safety Summit on Autonomous Technology at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, October 2, 2019. The event is free, but we encourage you to RSVP by clicking here. In the spirit of … Continue reading →

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Sense Photonics Mounts Flash Lidar on Curved Surface

Posted on June 17, 2019 by lidar

The latest stealth autonomous vehicle start-up to come out of hiding is Sense Photonics offering “flexible” flash lidar. The main advantages that this provides is the ability to locate the sensor on a curved surface and the ability to achieve … Continue reading →

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Ground Penetrating Radar for the Surveyor

Posted on June 13, 2019 by lidar

One of the more impressive product announcements from this week at HxGN Live involves GRP – ground penetrating radar. Geoff Zeiss in his Between the Poles blog commented, “Two years ago the one-button BLK360 opened up engineering grade laser scanning … Continue reading →

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Super Cruise from GM Expands Hands-Free Territory

Posted on June 6, 2019 by lidar

While the rest of the autonomous vehicle start-ups are making promises, General Motors is now delivering hands-free, Super Cruise on the Cadillac CT6. With the help of the stealth, mobile lidar mapping firm Ushr the coverage is now expanding to … Continue reading →

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FMCW – Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Lidar

Posted on June 4, 2019 by lidar

It certainly sounds more complicated than Time of Flight (ToF), but Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) lidar has a number of important advantages over ToF, like being able to measure the velocity of objects in a scene and having the … Continue reading →

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Solid-State Lidar Could be a Game Changer for Autonomous

Posted on May 27, 2019 by lidar

On the surface it certainly seems like solid-state lidar has many advantages over electromechanical systems and that VCSEL is the leading ship design. From an article in All About Circuits. ams, a leading worldwide supplier of high-performance sensor solutions, announced … Continue reading →

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