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Waymo Releases Data Trove on Self Driving
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo autonomous vehicle development unit is granting researchers free access to a huge data set useful for teaching self-driving vehicles how to “see.”
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Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo autonomous vehicle development unit is giving researchers free access to a huge data set useful for teaching self-driving vehicles how to “see.”
The database comprises 1,000 high-resolution driving scenes that label such objects as cyclists, pedestrians and traffic signs. Waymo notes that giving researcher access to identified objects speeds up the process of teaching algorithms to interpret a vehicle’s surroundings.
The company’s offer comes a month after ride-hailing service Lyft Inc. released its own trove of data collected from sensors used by self-driving test vehicles. Lyft is making 55,000 3D frames of video footage available to autonomy researchers.
Developers of autonomous systems have become increasingly aware of the difficulties of teaching machines to accurately assess their surroundings. Waymo says its data offer is driven by a desire to “empower” the research community, not by fears that machine vision is too difficult for one company to master.
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