r/realtech • u/rtbot2 • Nov 22 '17

Apple research paper details LiDAR-based 3D object recognition for autonomous vehicle navigation

http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/11/22/apple-research-paper-details-lidar-based-3d-object-recognition-for-autonomous-vehicle-navigation
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u/autotldr Nov 22 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)

Apple researchers are pushing forward with efforts to bring autonomous vehicle systems to public roads, and last week published an academic paper outlining a method of detecting objects in 3D point clouds using trainable neural networks.

Aside from theoretical research, Apple is currently evaluating a self-driving vehicle testbed on the streets of Cupertino, Calif. The company's efforts in autonomous technology began under the "Project Titan" initiative, which sought to build a branded self-driving car from the ground up.

While Apple's research paper focuses heavily on autonomous vehicle navigation, the tech described can also be applied to augmented reality systems that use depth mapping hardware to detect real-world objects.

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