The AI that allows self-driving cars to 'see' around corners

Researchers at US universities have created an imaging system powered by artificial intelligence that could help self-driving cars "see" around corners in minute detail to identify hazards. The imaging system uses a conventional camera sensor and a laser beam that can be "bounced" off walls and onto objects to create a pattern – visually similar to the static on an old untuned television to the naked eye. The image is then reconstructed by an AI algorithm, eliminating the'noise' and able to produce images of even 1cm tall letters. Deep-learning is a form of artificial intelligence that mimics the working of the human brain to process data and create patterns. It is a particularly powerful subset of machine learning AI, able to learn unsupervised with unstructured data.