AutoBrains and Continental Collaborate to Launch Unsupervised AI System to Accelerate ADAS and AV System Development

According to foreign media reports, AI developer AutoBrains announced that it has developed a new unsupervised AI system for the automotive industry with Tier 1 supplier Continental, which is expected to accelerate the technical development of ADAS and AV systems and bring the technology to market.

AutoBrains said that completely different from the traditional deep learning systems in most current ADAS, the operation mode of this unsupervised AI system is based on multidisciplinary research and development, which enables the system to independently learn, process and interpret relevant data about the car's surroundings in real time, thereby producing the same perception mode as the human brain.

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In addition, one of the main advantages of this disruptive technology compared to traditional deep learning is the reduced reliance on expensive and error-prone manually labeled training datasets. The unsupervised AI system is said to be able to successfully interpret and navigate abnormal driving scenarios and edge cases that are very unreliable in traditional supervised learning systems.

Furthermore, reducing the reliance on stored data means that the system requires approximately 10 times less computing power than currently available systems, and can be produced at a lower cost. This system also improves the availability of ADAS in the market segment as regulations continue to increase the number of driver assistance features for passenger cars and commercial vehicles .

Igal Raichelgauz, CEO of AutoBrains, said: "We are delighted to work with Continental to bring this revolutionary technology to market. Unsupervised AI has been developed over a decade and supported by Continental for nearly two years, with more than 200 patents to date. We are excited to move to the next stage together with Continental."

“We are excited to be working with AutoBrains to bring their advanced and proven AI technology to the market. We believe this technology will revolutionize the ADAS and AV markets, which have been limited in the past by their reliance on supervised learning, which uses large labeled training data sets and requires a lot of computing power,” said Frank Petznick, head of Continental’s Driver Assistance Systems business unit.

AutoBrains’ AI overcomes these barriers in a unique way. It processes signals about the car’s surroundings in a similar way to how a human driver would, improving performance while saving computing power and energy. Together with AutoBrains, we will rapidly advance safer and increasingly automated driving experiences.”