This work introduces my initial experiment to study Artificial Perception in Self-Driving technology. Vehicle Artificial Perception is known as a capability that helps Self-driving cars to understand the surrounding environment through a computer based-system. The system can consist of several different sensors such as Cameras, Lidar, Radar, GPS, IMU...to gather information around the car. An intelligent software then processes the data collected from the sensors to recognize and classify surrounding objects such as cars, humans, road marks, traffic signs.... Based on the understanding of the detected objects, the intelligent software can predict behavior and plan appropriate reactions according to the situations. Creating such an intelligent software has been a challenge for Artificial Intelligence researchers for decades. However, Deep Learning has recently offered a promising solution in the field of Artificial Intelligence, in which Deep Learning software has the ability to learn to create its own Artificial Neural Networks.

In 2017, your new fridge might be able to tell you corny jokes and serenade you, but still lack a witty answer to "Are you Skynet?" Microsoft announced during the WinHEC coference in Shenzhen, China that Cortana would arrive on Windows IoT Core as part of the Windows 10 Creators Update. The IoT version of Windows is designed for smart devices such as robots, maker projects, thermostats, toasters, doorbells, and picture frames. Windows IoT Core can sometimes lag a little behind Windows 10 PC releases so it's not clear when the IoT version will roll out. During the Windows 10 November Update in 2015, the IoT build lagged by about a month, though the earlier Anniversary Update arrived around the same time on both PCs and IoT devices. The impact on you at home: If I was in a betting mood I'd expect to see the new Windows IoT Core inspire multiple Cortana-powered smart speakers from third parties. Microsoft doesn't appear to have any interest in making its own smart speaker.

In this Maker Mini, @pjdecarlo walks through an elaborate demonstration of Windows IoT Core and Azure Machine Learning that was recently unveiled at the Microsoft exhibition booth at First Robotics 2016 in St. Louis, MO. We'll check out brand new features included in the current preview release of Windows IoT Core, notably the Windows IoT Remote Client and PWM Bus Provider. Plus we will get to see an example of an Machine Learning Experiment being piped into a web-frontend for a live simulation that you can replicate for yourself @ internetofyourthings.com.