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At the beginning of 2020, the domestic self-driving truck company-onboard technology ushered in the first round of good news. Dr. Yang Ruigang, former director and chief 3D vision scientist of Baidu Robotics and Autopilot Laboratory, and Dr. Chen Tian, former vice president of Huawei's American technology and software architect, announced their participation in vehicle-mounted technology.

Dr. Yang Ruigang will be the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Yuche Technology, who will be fully responsible for the research and development of autonomous driving technology in China and the United States; Dr. Chen Tian will be the vice president of meta-technology, responsible for the related work of software systems, and preside over the work of R&D Center in Silicon Valley.

It is worth mentioning that Huang Gang, the former general manager of Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle, also joined Carriage Technology on 20 19 as the executive vice president and the person in charge of vehicle engineering.

Carriage technology already has all-round autopilot talents from forward-looking artificial intelligence, software system engineering to vehicle integration.

Its mature self-driving truck technology, coupled with the introduction of this round of AI and software system talents, the road of mass production of self-driving trucks with on-board technology is steadily moving forward.

1. Did Baidu's former chief 3D vision scientist join us? From artificial intelligence research to large-scale production and development

As the former director and chief 3D vision scientist of Baidu Robotics and Autopilot Laboratory, Dr. Yang Ruigang is a world-renowned computer vision scientist.

Up to now, more than one academic article 100 has been published in related fields, and Google? Scholars have cited tens of thousands of articles and served as the top international conference of visual ICCV/CVPR/ECCV for many times. Tian will be the chairman of CVPR again? 202 1 chairman of the planning commission (planning? Chair).

In the field of three-dimensional reconstruction and three-dimensional data analysis, he has also made many world-class scientific research achievements, including developing the world's first high-speed stereo matching algorithm based on GPU and the world's first real-time dense three-dimensional street view reconstruction system. He combined with the stereo matching algorithm of deep learning to rank first in KITTI benchmark database.

During his stay in Baidu, Dr. Yang Ruigang presided over the development of ApolloScape, the world's largest self-driving open source data set. Its augmented reality-based automatic driving simulation system (AADS) was published in Science magazine and was selected as one of the top ten technological innovations of Baidu AI in 20 19.

Not only that, he also led the research team to develop the intelligent incubation project and prototype products of construction machinery for perception, decision-making and control of the full stack system in semi-closed scenes.

▲ Chief Technology Officer of Yuche Technology? Yang Ruigang

Yang Ruigang briefly talked about his views on why he joined Wintech from two aspects: personal and Wintech.

He pointed out that from a personal point of view, it is his ideal to turn knowledge into productive forces. He said: "I went from pure academic research to product concept research and development of Baidu, and then to commercial mass production development. This is my dream? The path (ideal road) has realized the advancement from' learning' to' research' and then to' production'. "

From the perspective of winning technology, the company itself attracted him. He pointed out that there are many companies doing research and development of self-driving freight technology, but few companies really have massive operational data resources. Now, if any AI company wants to succeed, it must bring its own traffic. There are live data and thermal data, which is the absolute advantage of hybrid vehicles. Start the operation business synchronously from the first day, establish a data closed loop, and support rapid technology upgrade iteration.

Not only that, Yang Ruigang also agrees with the business logic of Wintek. He said that Win Technology started from L3, with clear commercial value and little influence from the external environment.

As a startup company, Yang Ruigang attaches great importance to both the ultimate pursuit of technology and the rational judgment of business value.

Second, the former Huawei software Daniel? Switch to the self-driving truck track

Dr. Chen Tian is the vice president of technology and software architect of Huawei in the United States. He is a top expert in this field. Rich experience in full-stack software infrastructure, proficient in parallel and distributed systems, compilers, computer architecture, OS, cloud computing and AI framework.

He has published nearly 30 research papers at the top conferences of computer systems such as PLDI, ASPLOS and EuroSys, and has 65,438+05 patents related to software architecture.

During his tenure at Huawei in the United States, Dr. Chen Tian led several R&D projects as an architect and vice president of technology. He has profound insights and rich experience on how to build software products with stable and reliable performance and how to quickly transform scientific research results into product characteristics.

Not only that, he also has rich experience in managing large-scale technical teams, and has led hundreds of technical teams to complete several R&D projects related to embedded products, consumer products, cloud services and AI software.

As for the reasons for joining Wintek, Dr. Chen Tian thinks that he has seen a very broad world in Wintek. He pointed out: "AI stands out from the Internet, and the future trend must be to enter all walks of life to improve efficiency. The important application of AI in the automotive and logistics fields is self-driving freight, which will completely change the efficiency of the logistics industry. "

▲ Vice President of Yuche Technology? Shen Tian

Third, the "technology+operation" model is two-pronged? The mass production of self-driving trucks is progressing steadily.

Looking at the whole self-driving freight field, hybrid car technology has become the head player in this field.

In terms of technology, the mass production of its self-driving trucks is progressing steadily. According to hybrid technology, it is currently related to OEMs and Tier. The cooperation of 1 is progressing very smoothly, and the phased objectives of the mass production project have been completed as scheduled.

The joining of Dr. Yang Ruigang and Dr. Tian Chen will further strengthen the strength of Win Car Technology in AI and software architecture, and make it run faster and better on the road of autonomous driving research and development in China and the United States.

At the same time, in terms of operation, the smart truck operation platform business built simultaneously has basically covered the whole country, with nearly 100 customers.

Technology and operation go hand in hand, carriage technology has unique competitiveness in the field of self-driving freight, and its road to mass production of self-driving trucks will go smoother.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.