Academicians help! This Shanghai AI company has launched its products overseas along the “Belt and Road”

Qian Ming from Shanghai
Quantum Bit Report | Public Account QbitAI

Once a year, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference is held.

In this conference attended by many bigwigs and giant companies, a Shanghai AI company stood out.

DeepBlue, DeepBlue Technology, not only received support from Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, but also announced multiple progress in implementation.

First, the Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission solicited Shanghai's second batch of artificial intelligence application scenario solutions, and the video image quality enhancement solution provided by SenseTime was successfully shortlisted.

Secondly, SenseTime's Panda smart bus has obtained Shanghai's first smart connected bus license. It is also the first smart connected bus to pass Shanghai's V2X network test.

Finally, Shenlan signed a contract for the commercialization of "Belt and Road" artificial intelligence products. Its AI products will be implemented overseas along the "Belt and Road", opening up greater space for the implementation of AI technology.

The company has received technical support from top academic experts and its products have been recognized by many parties. This speed of development is rare in the entire AI industry.

Moreover, for Chen Haibo, founder and chairman of SenseTime, this is just the first step in the development of SenseTime.

With the help of academicians, the strength is further enhanced

Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, participated in the development of China's first self-designed electronic tube computer.

Now I have a new title: Consultant of the Expert Committee of Shenzhen Lan Academy of Sciences.

At the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference "AI Shining on the Belt and Road" theme forum, he delivered a speech entitled "Welcoming the New Trend of Open Source Chips".

Afterwards, he will provide guidance for SenseTime's related research and assist SenseTime in its R&D efforts.

Shenlan's technical strength has been proven in major international competitions. In the first half of this year, it has won 6 world championships , 2 runner-ups and 2 third places.

In June 2019, in the Cassava Disease Classification Challenge of CVPR, DeepBlue stood out from more than 1,300 proposals proposed by 88 teams around the world and won the championship.

In addition to this challenge, DeepBlue also won the second and third place in the target detection transfer learning, target tracking transfer learning, and large-scale detection interpolation exploration challenges at CVPR.

Also in 2019, SenseTime won many world-class competitions including the PAKDD 2019 AutoML3+ Challenge and the IEEE ISI World Cup 2019. It has also applied cutting-edge technologies such as AutoML to various products and solutions internally.

During the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, SenseTime once again won a world-class award in the field of AutoML: the champion of the "Fourth Paradigm AutoNLP Competition" at the WAIC2019 Hackathon.

SenseTime explained that these achievements were due to the company's emphasis on and accumulation of technological research and development.

To date, they have established joint laboratories in many related fields including artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, AI chips, 5G applications and computer vision with Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Central South University and many other well-known domestic and foreign universities, and jointly built a scientific research system with Shenzhen Lan Academy of Sciences.

Now, with the help of top academic experts, SenseTime's technical strength has been further enhanced. These are the strength and confidence of SenseTime in promoting the implementation of its products.

“One Belt, One Road” strategy to bring AI products abroad

In 2017, SenseTime began to increase its investment in application areas, entering various AI+ application fields, promoting the transformation of research results, and building a platform-based full business chain of algorithm output, integrated installation and hardware delivery.

In Chen Haibo's view, compared with other similar AI companies, hardware manufacturing is SenseTime's competitive barrier. Currently, SenseTime already has four manufacturing bases in China to serve the implementation of AI technology.

At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shenlan brought its star product, the Panda Bus, to the event. This time, there were not only buses, but also supporting infrastructure - the 5G AI Panda Bus Station.

In the field of autonomous driving, DeepBlue Technology has made rapid progress and has been applied all over the world. In Europe, it has signed smart city cooperation agreements with Greece and Italy, and smart driving buses are expected to be implemented in Thailand and other European countries soon.

In China, SenseTime has also obtained smart bus road test licenses in Guangzhou and Changsha. It is worth noting that the road test licenses issued in Guangzhou and Changsha also attach great importance to applications such as 5G. SenseTime's ability to obtain a license also proves its strength in this field.

At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, SenseTime not only brought products to the booth, but also announced tangible progress.

On the one hand, Shenlan obtained the first intelligent networked bus license in Shanghai. So far, Shenlan has three road test licenses for autonomous driving buses.

Afterwards, Shenlan Technology will carry out open testing of the Panda Bus's intelligent connected network on a total of 37.2 kilometers of public roads in Jiading District and Lingang District of Shanghai.

Unlike ordinary passenger vehicles, the Panda Bus is a medium-to-large autonomous driving vehicle system, with a length of 12 meters, a width of 2.55 meters, a height of 3.25 meters, and a weight of approximately 10 tons. This greatly increases the difficulty in sensor layout design, perception detection fusion and scene recognition, networked communications and control strategies, and decision-making and control of the entire vehicle system.

According to SenseTime, the successful passing of the Shanghai Intelligent Connected Vehicle Test License (1,400+ tests) by Panda Bus marks a new level of autonomous driving for domestic medium and large vehicles.

On the other hand, as the representative of the Belt and Road Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance, SenseTime read out the "Joint Declaration" and officially announced that the Panda Smart Bus will be a "Belt and Road" image product of "China's Intelligent Manufacturing" and will be headed to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Australia and other countries.

Moreover, it is not just the Panda Bus, there is also Shenlan's AI smart sweeper, new retail and other businesses, etc., which serve as the external output of the entire Shenlan ecosystem.

In addition, at this World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission solicited Shanghai's second batch of artificial intelligence application scenario solutions, and the video image quality enhancement solution provided by SenseTime was successfully shortlisted.

All of the above developments have greatly helped SenseTime to open up more space and promote the implementation of technology, and also provided more imagination for the development of SenseTime.

What does Shenlan want to do?

Although Alibaba and other giants have long been partners and there are many academicians in the technical committee, Shenlan's image and external presentation are more about introducing industry solutions to customers, adhering to the Shanghai company's consistent low-key characteristics.

Its official website shows that SenseTime's layout is mainly concentrated in three major areas: smart cars, smart sanitation, and smart cities. It provides more than 30 products and applications in smart driving, smart robots, biological intelligence, smart retail, smart voice, security, chips, education, and smart city scenarios.

In the field of AI, there are not many companies that can provide solutions in so many fields, and SenseTime is already at the forefront.

In Chen Haibo's view, Shenlan's goal is not limited to providing solutions based on current AI technology to implement artificial intelligence technology, but is based on future-oriented AI technology.

In his opinion, there are four stages in the development of artificial intelligence: symbolic reasoning, deep learning, cognitive reasoning, and human-computer intelligence.

As companies engaged in artificial intelligence and basic research, they should use small samples to solve big problems and break the ceiling of current artificial intelligence technology based on deep learning. An important focus is to strengthen basic research:

We should fully draw on the advantages of symbolic reasoning to deep learning, give play to cognitive reasoning, find new data mechanisms for unified representation from symbolic space to vector space, and create a more efficient and explainable new artificial intelligence deep learning framework based on cognitive reasoning.

Chen Haibo said that Shenzhen Lan Academy of Sciences has invested a lot of resources in cognitive intelligence, chips, medicine, and computational biology, focusing on basic research. Based on these studies, it has actively promoted the role of artificial intelligence in scenarios such as intelligent transportation, intelligent sanitation, and intelligent cities.

What does Shenlan want to do? Chen Haibo also gave the "small goals" for the next three years:

Become a world-renowned artificial intelligence company, achieve dual strengths in basic research and application development, be strong in both software output and hardware manufacturing and delivery, and become an artificial intelligence industry manufacturing industry covering multiple fields. We also hope that Shenlan's products, services and technologies will serve the main high-growth markets.

Everything now is just the beginning.