Manually annotating the huge volumes of video data that are used for testing and training autonomous vehicles and ensure that they safely react to any object or event would be a Herculean task. Thanks to work under the Cloud-LSVA project, it will soon be possible to combine Big Data and cloud computing to perform this task automatically.
The race to put the first-ever driverless car on the market is on. And we already have a pretty good idea of what they’ll look like: a car covered in all kinds of cameras and sensors that will record and analyse everything happening in their surroundings, in real-time.
Further details: Automated video annotation for risk-proof driverless cars