Ambarella and INVO Tech Deliver Driver and Occupant Monitoring System for Mass Production of GAC Motor SUVs
09 November 2022 - 9:00PM
Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), an edge AI semiconductor company,
and Suzhou INVO Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. (hereafter
referred to as “INVO Tech”), a progressive intelligent driving
customized system supplier, today announced that INVO Tech’s
Cockpit Super Sensory Interactive System based on the Ambarella
CV25AQ AI perception system-on-chip (SoC), has been mass-produced
and delivered on the GAC Motor SUVs. This cooperation makes driving
safer by bringing multi-sensor perception technology to vehicle
smart cockpits.
As GAC’s first self-developed hybrid SUV model, the Emkoo is
equipped with the GAC Mega Wave Power Hybrid GMC 2.0. The maximum
range of the Emkoo is 1,711 kilometers, and the fuel consumption
for 100 kilometers is only 3.2L. With its youthful fashion and
intelligent technology, this SUV targets young customers such as
Generation Z. This model has a trendy design that looks sci-fi and
avant-garde, with a variety of trims to choose from, and is favored
by young customers.
The Emkoo SUV’s smart hardware configuration is based on GAC
Motor’s in-house, full-stack smart driving technology platform.
Based on years of experience in computer vision and image
perception, INVO Tech, together with GAC Motor and Ambarella, have
developed the Super Sensory Cockpit Interactive System. This system
uses a single CV25AQ AI SoC from Ambarella, and integrates one 2
megapixel (MP) driver monitoring system (DMS) camera, one front
occupant monitoring system (OMS) camera, two rear OMS cameras, and
one “life monitoring” radar, along with a comprehensive layout of
other integrated sensing technologies. The DMS camera uses
OMNIVISION’s IR sensor to sense the driver’s behavior and status in
all directions and scenarios. The OMS camera uses OMNIVISION’s
RGB-IR sensors, which are deployed in the ceiling lights and left
and right B-pillars to ensure there are no blind spots in the
cabin. The combined DMS and OMS cameras can not only track the
driver’s status and provide fatigue alerts, but can also track rear
passengers to help make driving safer and easier.
Through this hardware configuration, INVO Tech, in conjunction
with upstream and downstream ecosystem partners, has developed
functions such as Face ID, along with the detection of driver
fatigue, smoking, phone calls, gender and age, as well as the
recognition of moods, gestures, signs, and other indicators to
provide a super-sensory interactive experience. Examples of the
functions this system provides include driver fatigue warnings,
music volume reduction during phone calls, automatic window roll
down when smoking, infotainment gesture control, auto-generated
mood-based music playlists, and child monitoring. INVO Tech plans
to continue increasing its partner investments and collaborations
to create diversified products that promote the development of
autonomous driving technologies. The advanced algorithms in this
project are powered by Ambarella’s CVflow® AI engine inside its
CV25AQ SoC.
INVO Tech’s cockpit visual perception system based on
Ambarella’s CV25AQ SoC and related products have been mass-produced
on GAC vehicle models. The CV25AQ is an automotive grade AI
perception SoC from Ambarella that uses advanced 10nm process
technology. It provides high AI performance and low power
consumption, and is a proven technology that is mature and stable.
It is popular in a wide variety of AI computer vision applications,
and has industry-leading performance advantages and very low power
consumption.
In addition to its AI capabilities, Ambarella’s CV25AQ SoC
integrates an industry-leading ISP with excellent image quality. It
supports a wide variety of different CMOS image sensors (e.g.,
monochrome, RGBIR, RGGB), and includes features such as accurate
CMOS image sensor synchronization and exposure control to avoid
interference from the multi-camera infrared lights in DMS/OMS
systems. These image quality advantages also help visual perception
algorithms achieve greater accuracy using the CV25AQ’s AI
engine.
INVO Tech’s Cockpit Super Sensory Interactive System complies
with Euro NCAP 2025 standards. This means that it can perform
reliable visual processing in complex lighting conditions to ensure
the safety of the driver and the passengers. The CV25AQ’s software
also includes fault tolerance for unexpected interruptions in the
camera signal and general fault handling, which meets the system’s
ASIL functional safety requirements.
The collaboration between Ambarella and INVO Tech in the Cockpit
Super Sensory Interactive System has made smart vehicles safer and
better. In particular, the companies have further improved the
safety of smart cockpits. They plan to continue their
collaborations, in support of making vehicles safer.
About INVO TechINVO Tech (Full name: Suzhou
INVO Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.), founded in 2012, is a
supplier of progressive intelligent driving customization systems
and is a fully independent R&D intelligent driving enterprise
cultivated by Tsinghua University. The company has advanced
intelligent driving integrated sensing and regulation algorithm
capabilities. It has design, development and innovation
capabilities of customized intelligent driving systems and smart
sensors, as well as leading automotive-grade manufacturing
capabilities. The company focuses on three smart driving scenarios:
smart driving, smart parking, and smart cockpit, providing
advanced, safe and reliable intelligent driving system products for
the global automotive industry. Learn more at www.invo.cn.
About AmbarellaAmbarella’s products are used in
a wide variety of human and computer vision applications, including
video security, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS),
electronic mirror, drive recorder, driver/cabin monitoring,
autonomous driving and robotics applications. Ambarella’s low-power
systems-on-chip (SoCs) offer high-resolution video compression,
advanced image processing and powerful deep neural network
processing to enable intelligent perception, fusion and central
processing systems to extract valuable data from high-resolution
video and radar streams. For more information, please visit
www.ambarella.com.
INVO Tech Contacts
- Media contact: Ella Shi, lu.shi@invo.cn, +86 0512-67887666
- Investor contact: Carson Cao, sw.cao@invo.cn, +86
0512-67887666
Ambarella Contacts
- Media contact: Eric Lawson, elawson@ambarella.com, +1
480-276-9572
- Investor contact: Louis Gerhardy, lgerhardy@ambarella.com, +1
408-636-2310
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