SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Dec. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Visteon Corporation's (NYSE: VC) new technical center in
Silicon Valley will lead the company's development of artificial
intelligence for autonomous vehicles. Visteon's breakthrough
autonomous vehicle program will apply machine learning technology
for accurately detecting and classifying objects in a vehicle's
path and planning the vehicle's movements, resulting in fully
trained driving control systems.
The recently opened facility in Santa
Clara, California, will work closely with global Visteon
tech centers to develop excellence in artificial intelligence
software, advanced driver awareness systems (ADAS) and deep machine
learning. These efforts will support Visteon's approach to
autonomous driving, which encompasses three key elements:
- Creating fail-safe, centralized domain controller hardware
leveraging Visteon's industry-first cockpit domain controller,
Smartcore™.
- Unlocking the innovation potential of algorithm developers
through an easy-to-access open framework and test/simulation
environment.
- Applying artificial intelligence for object detection,
classification, perception and decision-making in future autonomous
vehicles.
"Most current advanced driver assistance systems based on radar
and cameras are not capable of accurately detecting and classifying
objects – such as cars, pedestrians or bicycles – at a level
required for autonomous driving," said Sachin Lawande, president and CEO of Visteon, a
leading global cockpit electronics supplier. "We need to achieve
virtually 100 percent accuracy for autonomous driving, which will
require innovative solutions based on deep machine learning
technology. Our Silicon Valley team, with its focus on machine
learning software development, will be a critical part of our
autonomous driving technology initiative."
Visteon's recently opened facility in the heart of Silicon
Valley will house a team of engineers specializing in artificial
intelligence and machine learning. The center is located close to
the West Coast offices of various automakers and tech companies, as
well as Stanford University and the
University of California, Berkeley –
two of the leading universities for artificial intelligence and
deep learning in the U.S.
In addition to leading Visteon's artificial intelligence
efforts, the Silicon Valley office will play a key role in
delivering control systems, localization and vision processing –
interpreting live camera data and converting it to information
required for autonomous driving. Visteon is targeting launching its
first autonomous driving domain controller platform in 2018.
Leading Visteon's artificial intelligence effort based in
Silicon Valley is Vijay Nadkarni,
who joined Visteon earlier this year from Chalkzen, Inc., where he
developed and launched a revolutionary SaaS (software as a service)
and connected car services platform.
Visteon has been continually expanding its resources to support
development of next-generation ADAS development and autonomous
driving. On April 1, Markus Schupfner
joined the company as chief technology officer, bringing more than
20 years of experience leading software development for global
automotive suppliers. Visteon recently announced that Matthias Schulze will join the company in
January 2017 from Daimler AG; he will
lead Visteon's ADAS development, including overseeing the Silicon
Valley facility.
About Visteon
Visteon is a global company that designs, engineers and
manufactures innovative cockpit electronics products and connected
car solutions for most of the world's major vehicle manufacturers.
Visteon is a leading provider of instrument clusters, head-up
displays, information displays, infotainment, audio systems,
telematics solutions and SmartCore™ cockpit domain controllers.
Visteon also supplies embedded multimedia and smartphone
connectivity software solutions to the global automotive industry.
Headquartered in Van Buren Township,
Michigan, Visteon has approximately 10,000 employees at more
than 40 facilities in 18 countries. Visteon had sales of
$3.25 billion in 2015. Learn more at
www.visteon.com.
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