“To self-drive or not to self-drive is not the question” __Madhav SBSS Sensors play a key role in self-driving cars. Radars are widely used as they are good in different weather and lighting conditions and they are cheap. Lidars are high density sensors but are not cheap and are not good in poor lighting and weather conditions. Cameras are cheap, high density but don’t
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“To drive better than humans, autonomous vehicles must first see better than humans.” __Nvidia How does the technology we briefly reviewed in part 1 of this blog actually work to make self-driving possible? before jumping into how the tech comes together, we should understand the leveling up to become fully autonomous – Levels of autonomy Different cars are capable of different levels of self-driving,
“Google is working on self-driving cars and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better” __Marc Andreessen What’s the big deal with self driving cars anyway. Why do we need them, can’t humans do any work anymore, are we so lazy that we just want to be transported from
Can a developer enhance Google’s Speech to Text system (GS2T)? Short answer is “Yes”. Let’s take a look how to go about it Google has what’s called language “hints”. By adding hints to the vocabulary, google speech-to-text is able to “understand” the audio and transcribe better. As I had shared in part 1 of this blog, I tried transcribing the following The lines in
tran·scrip·tion/ˌ tran(t)ˈskripSH(ə)n/a written or printed representation of something. Written representation of audio is normally considered as transcription. How does one go from audio to written word? We could listen to the audio word by word and note down the written representation of each word. This is a manual process and sometimes, we may need to pause the audio to catch up. Some words might