Baidu Smart Automotive Eco-Empowered Vehicle Industry Helps Automated Driving Production

【Global Science and Technology Report】How smart will the future be? Will the century-old auto industry be overturned? In the era of Internet of Everything, cars are becoming the third largest connected terminal after computers and smart phones. The future car will be not only a means of transportation, but also a mobile data center and a cognitive center. At the same time, the boundaries of the auto industry are gradually being broken, and more and more “new explorers” from industries such as science and technology and the Internet are pouring in and seeking innovation. On March 23rd, the International Auto Conference 2017 was held in Tokyo, Japan. The theme of the conference was “Car of the future”. Dr. Yuan Xing, the general manager of Baidu’s smart car division, was invited to attend and bring a The splendid speech delivered in English to the participants from giant companies such as Tesla, Google and Ford showed the ecological layout and future vision of Baidu Smart Car.

"The subversive nature of artificial intelligence is comparable to electrical energy." Dr. Yuan Xing pointed out that artificial intelligence is the core support of Baidu smart cars. According to him, artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing are three unique competitive advantages of Baidu. Among the "World's 50 Most Intelligent 50 Companies" selected by the MIT Technology Review (MIT Technology Review), Baidu ranked second. In the global artificial intelligence competition, Baidu has an absolute leading position in many fields. In terms of algorithm, Baidu has reached the world's largest DNN (deep neural network) and supports trillions of parameters. At the same time, Baidu also created the world's top ten supercomputer Minwa, and the world's largest distributed deep-machine learning open source platform. The deep technical accumulation has provided a guarantee for Baidu to build an ecosystem of unmanned and smart cars. It is reported that Baidu Smart Car is an important strategic layout of Baidu in the automotive industry. It focuses on providing auto-driving solutions, car networking solutions, and automotive solutions to partners including auto manufacturers, Tier1 manufacturers, chip makers, and service providers. data service.

Baidu Uses Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate the Popularization of Autopilot

Almost all companies involved in the auto-pilot field have invariably proposed that auto-piloting will be achieved by 2020, and judging from the current development trend, this goal will soon be brought into reality in the near future. With the help of artificial intelligence, Baidu Smart Auto’s autopilot solutions are the absolute leader in the industry, providing application-level autopilot-assisted software services including awareness, self-positioning, and decision-making. Among them, high-precision maps are the key to achieving automatic driving. "Baidu has the best high-precision map in China." According to Yuan Xing, relying on Baidu's world-leading deep learning technology, Baidu's high-precision map data has reached more than 90% automation, and can automatically identify packet traffic signs and ground signs. There are hundreds of targets, such as lane lines and signal lights, with relative accuracy of 0.1-0.2 meters. In 2017, it will cover the entire domestic highway with a total length of 300,000 kilometers. At the same time, relying on the Learning Map platform composed of multi-source sensing data processing, cloud service centers, and data centers, Baidu's high-precision map data can be updated in minutes.

According to the presentation of Yuan Xing at the conference, Baidu's auto-piloting key technologies such as self-positioning, environmental awareness, road prediction, and decision-making are all very mature. Among them, self-positioning technology has achieved very good results in drive tests, with a lateral error of only 20cm and a longitudinal error of 2 meters, which can fully satisfy the application of L3 automatic driving in high-speed scenarios. In the field of target detection, according to the KITTI data of the algorithm evaluation platform, Baidu currently ranks first in the two tests of pedestrian detection and bicycle detection and sixth in vehicle detection testing in the international evaluation of automatic driving scene target detection. .

Dr. Yuan Xing also introduced Baidu Road Hackers, Baidu's automatic driving open platform. Baidu Road Rackers provided a large-scale demonstration of the opening of China's road driving data, a deep learning auto-driving algorithm, and benchmarking of autopilot algorithms. At the same time, Baidu, as the owner of China's largest map collection fleet, has massive data covering the country's millions of kilometers, all cities, various road conditions, and the driving behavior of different drivers. And, because of the advanced sensors and recording devices that collect measurements, these data are of great research value and are the treasure trove of deep learning autopilot algorithm training and testing.

Car networking + big data to achieve intelligent car upgrade

In addition to vigorously advancing the popularity of autopilot solutions, Baidu's smart driving business group has also formed a wealth of product applications in terms of car networking and automotive big data services, providing car users with a more intelligent human-car interactive experience, providing car companies with Accurate and reliable big data analysis support. Yuan Xing introduced in his speech that Baidu's solution for car networking will provide more intelligent and safe driving experience for car owners to build a more complete human car interconnection service platform, mainly including CarLife, MyCar, CoDriver, and MapAuto. solution. Among them, CarLife is a service platform for realizing the intelligent interconnection of vehicles and mobile phones. It can seamlessly switch mobile map navigation, entertainment content, car life services and other mobile scenes to the car scene. Users can easily use Baidu CarLife to pick up the car during driving. Calling, listening to music, booking services, and using various features of Baidu maps. MyCar is a private cloud service platform that collects vehicle owner services, after-vehicle services, and cloud computing data. It is equivalent to installing a “Baidu brain” for each connected vehicle to provide a customized solution for vehicle customization and security management. To give a typical example, when the car is hot, the owner often welcomes a heat wave when he opens the door. Baidu MyCar can intelligently analyze the owner's habits and current status, intelligently before the owner’s usual car time. Start the car air conditioner to ensure the comfort of the car owner. CoDriver is based on intelligent voice for human-computer interaction, based on the world's leading voice technology and natural language processing technology to create smart driving assistant, allowing car owners to truly experience the "free hands" of human and vehicle interaction. MapAuto, as a smart travel solution for front-loading, continues the advantages of mobile Baidu maps, integrates in-vehicle scenarios, and provides vehicle owners with safe and reliable off-line map services.

At the same time, the Baidu Smart Vehicle Business Unit has also launched automotive big data services, through large-scale big data analysis and research, providing vehicle companies with data analysis support for decision making such as precision marketing, vehicle design, and user service management systems, and assisting auto companies in developing real users. Required products and features.

At present, Baidu Smart Car has cooperated with more than 60 OEM manufacturers, and its solution is deployed on more than 200 models. Yuan Xing believes that the smart car will become the next unbeatable mobile terminal after the smart phone. Baidu Smart Motors will uphold an open and cooperative attitude, empower the automotive industry, and strive to become an important force in promoting the comprehensive upgrade of China's auto industry and accelerating automated driving to achieve mass production.