Starting today, I can no longer say that Ali has no cars.
According to the "Caixin" news, the Ali team is developing L4 and above automatic driving technology. The existing vehicles (Lincoln MKZ modified, equipped with laser radar and other sensors) have been normalized road test, and have the ability to test in open sections. There are still dozens of vehicles in the development process. The number of recent recruitment needs is more than 50.
Ali confirmed the news and said that Professor Wang Gang, the chief scientist of Ali AI Lab, is indeed leading the development of unmanned driving, and it is very fast, but it is unable to disclose more information at present.
Previously, I also reported on the Ali team, saying that the team has about 10 people, and plans to expand to 50 people by the beginning of 2018. At that time, it was hoped that the Demo verification will be completed by the end of 2017, and then the technical planning will be carried out accordingly.
Looking at it now, the Demo verification may have been completed and entered the team architecture build phase.
In addition, we also learned that Ali headhunting information on the Baidu unmanned vehicle team.
However, this time Wang Gang, who is leading the Ali unmanned vehicle, is not the one who came from Ali to the Iron Army and invested in the dripping Wang Gang.
Wang Gang joined the Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in March 2017 as the chief scientist responsible for the research and development of machine learning, computer vision and natural language understanding.
Previously, Wang Gang was a tenured professor at Nanyang Technological University. He was also the editor of the IEEE TransacTIons on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), the leading journal in the field of artificial intelligence. He has been invited to become the top academic conference of artificial intelligence. The chairman of the ICCV field has deep research accumulation and international authority in the field of deep learning algorithms.
In 2016, he also became one of the 10 winners of the Youth Innovation Award under the age of 35 in the Asian Technology Review Magazine for his outstanding contribution to deep neural network design.
Earlier, Wang Gang graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2005 and then received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010. He is an expert in machine vision, machine learning and natural language understanding and processing.
Interestingly, in Singapore, Wang Gang also worked on the development of assisted driving systems for vehicles, distances and lane detection, and successfully completed commercialization. So it was not unexpected to be the head of the Ali Unmanned Vehicles team.
Visual technology reserve
Although the Ali unmanned car layout is later than Baidu and Tencent, it is not completely empty-handed. Previously, in the field of basic technology, especially in the field of computer vision, there have been some signs.
In January of this year, Ali refreshed the ranking in the world's authoritative machine vision algorithm list KITTI - Alibaba, the artificial intelligence research institute of Alibaba, won the individual test of pedestrians.
At the same time, in the well-known pedestrian re-identification data set Market1501, they also made a major breakthrough, the first hit rate increased to 96.17%, ranking first in the world.
Pedestrian detection and pedestrian re-identification are two core basic technologies in the fields of traffic management, urban security, and driverless driving.
Pedestrian detection requires the machine to determine from the image or video whether there are pedestrians, where the pedestrians are; pedestrian recognition requires the machine to recognize all images of a particular person.
These two technologies can play a huge role in the application of crowd forecasting in scenic shopping malls, personalization analysis of pedestrians, pedestrian traffic safety, driverless driving, and the search for lost elderly children.
However, at that time, Ali was mainly transferred to the outside world, or the use of the technology in the brain of Ali ET, not automatic driving. However, there are also insiders from Ali who say that the importance of pedestrian detection and pedestrian recognition in autonomous driving is self-evident. Therefore, at this time, Ali is indeed making basic preparations for the unmanned car "high-speed cornering" and "curve overtaking".
Driving on two legs
Of course, in addition to the official development of the unmanned car research team today, in fact, Ali's "two routes" in the car field has already begun.
One is naturally a faster landing car network. In September last year, Ali officially announced the upgrade of YunOS in the mobile Internet era to "AliOS", and Alibaba Cloud President Hu Xiaoming (Sun Quan) personally took the helm, aiming to win the war of the next generation operating system.
Among them, AliOS under the car scene is naturally the most important.
Earlier, Ali had established a subsidiary, Zebra Network, with SAIC Group to establish a mission of car intellectual networking. More than 250,000 vehicles are on the road, contributing data every day to help optimize the driving experience. In addition, the cooperation model with Dongfeng Citroen will also be available.
Now, another longer-term route is officially launched. However, in some restrictive scenarios, such as logistics, Ali's automatic driving has also been low-key appearance.
Ali's rookie network has already disclosed auto-driving logistics vehicles. At the time, it also adopted a multi-sensor fusion scheme such as laser radar and vision. The actual situation is not much different from the current unmanned passenger vehicle scheme.
In addition, Ali also holds the map manufacturer Gao De and the Chihiro location of the joint venture subsidiary. Finally, Ali is also investing in car-related layout.
The most important investment so far is the investment in Xiaopeng Automobile. The founder and chairman of Xiaopeng Automobile is the president of the former Ali Mobile Group He Xiaopeng. More broadly, Ali also invests in the world's fastest AI companies, such as Face++ and Shang Tang. The AI ​​chip holds the Cambrian and Shenjian technologies. In short, Alibaba is coming at a high speed, and there is an entire ecological boost behind it. This also means that BAT is currently appearing on the autopilot track. Baidu ranks first, Tencent is second, Ali is later, but the giants may be racing as long as a corner is not possible.
It is reported that in order to strengthen the layout of the AI ​​field, "a wholly-owned acquisition of the star AI company" has been put on the agenda - and there may be more than one.
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