Lidar, Radar, Sonar, Hadar,… wait, Hadar?
Hadar is changing thermal radiation from everything around the car into pictures with texture and depth
To give a Machine Vision, we can use all sorts of radar. New on the list is Hadar. Hadar is heat-assisted detection and ranging (HADAR) technique that resolves cluttered heat signals to “see” texture and depth.
Heath is ‘overlooked’ in Machine Vision, due to the non-stop scatter when you want to make images with a infrared camera. Researchers at Purdue and Michigan State universities have developed a new heat-assisted detection and ranging (HADAR) technique that resolves this problem. In a proof-of-concept experiment, they demonstrated that HADAR ranging during nighttime is as good as RGB stereovision in the day, according to their research as published in Nature.
This new research will help autonomous driving vehicles to create a clear picture of the surrounding. It is a passive measurement – the researchers see this as a big advantage. They hope their work will lead to a technology that can accelerate the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) with HADAR-based autonomous navigation and human–robot social interactions.
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