AI helps driverless cars predict how unseen pedestrians may move
The artificial intelligence systems that control driverless cars can still struggle to predict the sudden appearance of other vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians – but a new algorithm has shown how they can more accurately anticipate the presence of such hidden objects, and predict their movements.
“We ensured that it captured real-world complexities like hidden pedestrians or cyclists moving unpredictably,” says Hari Thiruvengada at VERSES AI, a cognitive computing company headquartered in California. “We added occlusion reasoning to help anticipate the behaviour of road users hidden from direct…