Mitsubishi uses AI to create 3D maps for self driving cars

Self driving vehicles require both in-vehicle sensors and dynamic maps. To keep the map information constantly up to date is a tough task. Mitsubishi Electric has come out with a new technology for automated-mapping and extraction of transitions in mapping landscape. Mitsubishi Electric able to create dynamic 3D mapping using artificial intelligence (AI) software by using its own Mobile Mapping System (MMS). The 3-dimensional maps provide static information of roads and surrounding objects required for autonomous self-driving technologies. The maps are refreshed with dynamic information such as traffic signals, surrounding vehicles, and any such physical things for safe, highly precise autonomous driving.
AI powered automated mapping technology collects information such as road markings and traffic signs from laser-point clouds and camera data measured and collected by MMS. Mitsubishi Electric's MMS provides 3D positional information of roads and roadside structures with a 10cm or less accuracy. All this information is collected via a system consisting of laser scanners, cameras and GPS antennas, while driving. AI is used for improving the precision of extraction and recognition of the only data necessary, resulting in some 10 times faster map creation compared to ind...