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Creating Together Opens a New Future of Self-Driving Cars

SINGAPORE, Dec. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Demand for self-driving cars and the safety it brings is rising, particularly in Japan, where a super-aging society has upped the stakes considerably in recent years. Learn how Toshiba's image recognition technology, Visconti™, developed and refined over half a century, provides a myriad of possibilities in realising self-driving systems in the near future.

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Image recognition as seen on Visconti™
Image recognition as seen on Visconti™

 

Ryuzo Okada, Senior Manager of the Media AI Laboratory, Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation
Ryuzo Okada, Senior Manager of the Media AI Laboratory, Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation

 

Takashi Miyamori, General Manager of the Electronic Devices & Storage Research & Development Center, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
Takashi Miyamori, General Manager of the Electronic Devices & Storage Research & Development Center, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation

 

(Left) Takashi Miyamori, General Manager of the Electronic Devices & Storage Research & Development Center, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, (Right) Ryuzo Okada, Senior Manager of the Media AI Laboratory, Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation
(Left) Takashi Miyamori, General Manager of the Electronic Devices & Storage Research & Development Center, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, (Right) Ryuzo Okada, Senior Manager of the Media AI Laboratory, Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation

Visconti™ - The Game Changer in Image Recognition Technology

Self-driving systems require high-level image recognition to see and understand its surroundings followed by decision making, so that humans don't have to. The latest version of Visconti™ 5 contributes to all these functions while also achieving lower power consumption than conventional processors.

There are two technologies that make up Visconti™. The first is image recognition, tasked with recognizing/detecting the other cars, pedestrians, and traffic lights from images on the vehicle-mounted cameras, and then assisting in taking action to prevent or avoid collisions, whether it be day or night. The other half of the technology that makes up Visconti™ is the embodiment of image recognition technology as a processor, which makes it viable as a business, a product.

Visconti™ was not simply the brainchild of Toshiba engineers, but instead created with customers and their inputs. By thinking about the features and functions that customers will want in the future, and preparing solutions for these needs in advance, Toshiba is able to create products with features that reflect its strengths.

When Toshiba's research in image recognition technology began half a century ago, AI and self-driving cars were an impossible dream. Many of Toshiba's past engineers believed in the potential of image recognition technology and worked tirelessly to refine it, eventually developing it into what it is today. Today, the research continues under the lead of two engineers across the research and business divisions, Ryuzo Okada and Takashi Miyamori, who shares a vision of making the world a better place with Visconti™.

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Source: Toshiba Corporation
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