DiFoRem: artificial intelligence assists automated driving

Frankfurt (IAA), 12th September 2019 EDAG BFFT Electronics have developed software that uses artificial intelligence to support assisted and automated driving, even when visibility is poor. The DiFoRem (Dirt & Fog Removal) system is able to compensate for image errors caused by dirt, fogging or camera lens defects with the help of neural networks in real time. The reconstructed image can then be used by other assistance systems or for automated driving, providing a significant increase in image and information quality. In order to digitally compensate for image errors, the impaired areas of every single ingoing image are first identified algorithmically and marked accordingly. To this end, neural networks have been trained to learn the relation between image sections with and without errors.