BEIJING, April 3, 2019,/PRNewswire/ — The global automotive industry’s development has been almost stagnant since the beginning of the 21st century. In stark contrast, China’s car ownership and market size have continued to grow in recent years. The autonomous driving industry is becoming more popular, and the derived field of high-definition maps has also received much more attention.
Kuang Technology Releases Large-Scale Automatic High-Definition Map Technology
High-definition maps are often called the “brains” of autonomous driving. Unlike traditional navigation maps, they must not only accurately recognize dynamic traffic information, such as lane models, road components, and road attributes, but also clearly determine road congestion, construction conditions, traffic accidents, traffic control conditions, and weather conditions.
The “Extreme Accuracy – Large-scale Automatic High-definition Map Technology Conference” held by KuanDeng Technology demonstrated the technologies of large-scale networking, automatic processing, and map collection in high-definition maps. Visual-based technology allows KuanDeng Technology to achieve greater scale, automation, and speed advantages, which is quite different from traditional workforce and material resources.
The founder and CEO of KuanDeng Technology, Liu Jun, said, “Every industry revolution is a new market opportunity when technology and environmental conditions are in place simultaneously. Today, high-definition maps will establish a new industry based on technology, model, and demand.”
He believes that in terms of technology, thanks to the support of artificial intelligence, various highly accurate image-processing techniques have made high-definition map innovations possible. Secondly, in terms of model innovation, the popularity of intelligent driving and intelligent networked vehicles has made crowd-sourced maps possible, making the production model of high-definition maps a truly disruptive opportunity for the first time. Finally, with the rapid development of assisted autonomous driving and autonomous driving, more demand has emerged, promoting the renewal and development of the entire industry.
The Kuang Tecogy’s high-definition maps not only present the road shape, slope, curvature, paving, direction, and other formations like normal maps do but also include detailed data on lane line type, lane width, roadside landmarks, fences, road edge types, etc. It will provide powerful technical support for industry developers and partners to develop autonomous driving and promote the commercial application of automatic driving in various scenarios.
