AI-SEE

Enhancing vehicle vision in low visibility conditions 24 hours and 365 days of the year

How can we ensure that automated vehicles drive reliably even in adverse weather conditions?

This is the central question that AI-SEE, a PENTA EURIPIDES² labelled research project is addressing. 

One of the biggest remaining challenges towards the commercialization of automated vehicles today, is the ability to drive also autonomously under any relevant weather and lighting conditions. To date, the testing and validation of automated vehicles is mostly taking place in a small, designated area under good weather conditions and even the best in class prototypes still struggle or even fail completely in adverse weather situations. 

 

The solution

The key for market introduction and large dispersion is a robust and fail-safe perception system able to operate in all relevant weather conditions experienced 365 days of the year!

Objectives

AI-SEE, will greatly extend the Operational Design Domain (ODD) of today´s systems that assist the driver or provide conditional automation to full self-driving capabilities.
 

AI-SEE  will close the  current gap by:

Developing a robust and fault-tolerant novel sensing technology and associated AI

Permitting safe driving 24h/365-days

Enabling automated driving in all relevant weather & lighting conditions (snow, heavy rain, fog)

Starting from a strong collaboration

The advantage of AI-SEE is that it will not start from scratch. It will take up the results of the predecessor EU-funded project DENSE, which already developed a significantly improved environment perception system compared to conventional systems. The AI-SEE project partners will improve the system to realistically simulate sensor output under adverse weather and to adapt and test it on artificial data.

Find out more about AI-SEE  in the project section

Latest news

Enhancing Vehicle Vision: AI-SEE's Spotlight at the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium on Jeju Island

From 2 June to 5 June 2024, the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) took place on Jeju Island, Korea. Among the many presentations, AI-SEE’s contributions captured the attention of attendees with their innovative approach to enhancing vehicle vision in adverse weather. read more

AI-SEE attends CAD Workshop and Tutorial at IEEE IV 2024, 2-5 June 2024, Jeju Island, Korea

On 2 June 2024 AI-SEE will attend the 12th Workshop on Cooperative and Automotive Driving to be held as part of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium on Jeju Island in Korea. Alongside presenting key project outcomes, several project & industry partners will contribute to a prestigious Industry Panel. read more

Powder snow spray for AI-SEE's test cars

In February this year, Mercedes-Benz, VTT, ANSYS and Magna conducted a comprehensive test campaign in Muonio, Finland, focusing on validating and testing sensor technology in adverse weather conditions, specifically powder snow and snow spray (which usually leads to even greater visual impairment than the powder snowfall itself). read more

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