Wang Gang, Chief Scientist of Alibaba AI Lab
According to the report, the automatic driving technology developed by Ari's team was L4 full-automatic driving, which means that the driving is driven by the machine. In most scenarios, no human intervention is required. Ali's road test vehicle was modified from Lincoln MKZ. Baidu, Invista and various startups' autopilot systems have adopted this vehicle modification and deployment. Currently, existing vehicles have undergone normalized drive tests and have the ability to test on open roads.
On January 14 of this year, Alibaba first appeared in the KITTI road scene segmentation chart of the world's largest automated driving computer vision algorithm. The list shows that the Ali artificial intelligence team iDST won the first of three division tasks, including UU_ROAD (rural lanes). ) With UMM_ROAD (multi-lane) two specific scene tasks, and the overall scene of the comprehensive evaluation task URBAN_ROAD (city lane).
At that time, Ali had denied access to the automatic driving business. The responsible person said that the company attaches importance to basic scientific research, and autopilot technology is part of it. The research is being led by Alibaba machine vision scientist Ren Xiaofeng.
After a lapse of three months, Ali Fang confirmed the layout of automatic driving. The technology was led by Wang Gang, chief scientist of AI Labs, and he made rapid progress in the short term.