- The Volvo Association with Nvidia goes beyond french fries in cars
- The Gaussian spark creates high fidelity 3D scenes
- The technique can recreate “edge cases” to train faster models
Volvo is using a new so -called ‘Splating Gaussian’ technique to train its vehicles and accelerate its objective of zero collisions on the roads, and everything is thanks to its recently enlarged association with NVIDIA.
Last month we reported that the next Volvo ES90 will be the most powerful car that has created in terms of central computer capacity, because it packs a dual configuration of Nvidia Agx Orin.
Now, the company has revealed how this type of supercomputing is also helping to train its advanced driver assistance systems.
Volvo states that it can now synthesize incident data collected by advanced sensors in their latest vehicles, such as emergency braking, acute direction or manual intervention.
This allows the company to rebuild and explore in new ways to better understand how incidents can be avoided.
The novel method is called Splatting Gaussian and allows the company’s software to produce high -fidelity realistic scenes and topics from real world images.
Una vez que se han creado estas escenas, los ingenieros de Volvo pueden manipularlas para generar varios resultados. The examples of video clip offered by the Swedish brand are strangely realistic.
It is similar to a human who learns to skate playing
“We can select one of the rare edge cases and exploit it in thousands of new scenario variations to train and validate our models,” explains Alwin Bakkenes, head of global software engineering in Volvo Cars.
Bakkenes says that this has the potential to unlock a scale that Volvo has never had before and even to catch edge cases before they occur in the real world.
The Gaussian burst is a relatively new 3D representation technique that does not depend on neuronal networks, unlike the most complex methods, such as the neural radiation field (NERF).
Esto permite crear escenas 3D increíblemente complejas en tiempo real. The technique is currently being explored in multiple industries, from games to interactive development of applications.
The use of advanced Lidar Volvo, high -definition camera sensor and technology, as shown first in the former90, collects data resumes that can then be reproduced in a manipulable 3D model, allowing their engineers to train the AI of the vehicle to work better in the real world.
There was a certain disappointment when the ex90 was launched, since its lidar technology would remain out of line for the use of consumer, effectively banished to simply collect data until Volvo’s computing power was at a level at which the company was happy to introduce adas systems that depend on the set of sensors and the software stack.
Fortunately, its recently announced association with NVIDIA will help the Swedish brand, which is synonym for road safety, to perform its vision of zero collisions and assistance systems for drivers that really help, instead of simply NAG.
In addition, the company has also declared that early ex90 models will be updated with the Dual Nvidia Agx Orin system in a chips configuration, so they can also make the most of the latest developments in autonomous driving systems and ADAS.
