Waymo Applies Google Image Recognition to Autonomous Vehicles

Waymo, the self-driving technology company, just came out with the modestly named Content Search, but it could have huge implications for advancing autonomous vehicle technology. Waymo's new Content Search tool allows engineers to catalogue and find billions of images. As explained on its blog, Waymo and Google Research, both divisions of parent company Alphabet, collaborated to create Content Search. By leveraging the search technology similar to what powers Google Photos and Google Image, Waymo engineers can now quickly locate just about any object stored in Waymo's driving history and logs through 20 million miles of collecting data on the road. In essence, the Content Search turns all the objects into a searchable catalogue, accurately tracking billions of images.