Prism AI Software Accelerates Thermal Camera Integration for ADAS & Autonomous Vehicles

Teledyne FLIR has announced the release of Prism AI, a software framework that provides classification, object detection, and object tracking, enabling perception engineers to quickly start integrating thermal cameras for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicle (AV) systems. Built for automotive perception system developers, Prism includes features such as visible-and-thermal image fusion and advanced thermal image processing capabilities that provide superior pedestrian and animal detection in challenging lighting conditions, especially at night. "The Prism AI software model has performed successfully in third-party, NCAP Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) tests and will now help perception engineers create more effective systems," said Michael Walters, vice president product management, Teledyne FLIR. "Combining the Prism AI development tools, plugins, and dataset development offers integrators a route to quickly test and decrease development cost for thermal-enabled ADAS or AV that will help save lives." Developers can use Prism AI as the primary perception software or as reference software during in-house development.