LiDAR: China vs. US vs. EU
According to Yole Intelligence, with a strong emergence of the intelligent driving industry in China, Chinese manufacturers such as Hesai have become important players in the global LiDAR market. Among…
RMCW vs. FMCW
Coherent Random-Modulated Continuous-Wave (RMCW) https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/8/11/475/htm FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS-WAVE (FMCW) https://www.radartutorial.eu/02.basics/Frequency%20Modulated%20Continuous%20Wave%20Radar.en.html FMCW LiDAR http://www.mingwulab.berkeley.edu/research/fmcwlidar/ RMCW by CIBBY PULIKKASERIL, FOUNDER & CTO, BARAJA: Automotive LiDAR is quickly growing in importance for Advanced Driver…
Direct ToF Single-Photon Imaging
The June 2022 issue of IEEE Trans. Electron. Devices has an invited paper titled Direct Time-of-Flight Single-Photon Imaging by Istvan Gyongy et al. from University of Edinburgh and STMicroelectronics. This…
LiDAR vs RADAR for self-driving cars
LiDAR vs RADAR LiDAR vs RADAR is an interesting topic, especially after recently in Feb Tesla has announced to remove RADAR mainly because of accuracy and signl/noise issue. Tesla CEO also…
Photon counting cameras for quantum imaging applications
Prof. Edoardo Charbon: Photon counting has entered the realm of image sensing with the creation of deep-submicron CMOS SPAD technology. The format of SPAD image sensors has expanded from 8×4 pixels…
Tutorial on Single-Photon Detectors
Krister Shalm of National Institute of Standards and Technologies presented a tutorial: Single-photon detectors at the 2013 QCrypt Conference in August. http://2013.qcrypt.net This is from a while back but an…
Google AI: Lidar-Camera Fusion
A team from Google Research has a new blog article on fusing Lidar and camera data for 3D object detection. The motivating problem here seems to be the issue of…
LiDAR Videos: market, SPAD and etc
PhotonicsNXT Fall Summit keynote discusses automotive lidar How Lidar Is Powering Automated Driving This keynote session by Pierrick Boulay of Yole Developpement at the PhotonicsNXT Fall Summit held on October…
SiLC: Integrated FMCW LiDAR Sensor
MONROVIA, Calif. — () — Today, SiLC Technologies, Inc. (SiLC) announces the launch of its powerful, compact vision sensor delivering coherent vision and chip-scale integration to the broader market. The new Eyeonic™ Vision Sensor…
Apple’s Autopilot Project Titan has reportedly gained Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Software
It was reported on October 22 that Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Software Christopher ‘CJ’ Moore left Tesla. Moore had been with Tesla for almost 7.5 years. Today we’re learning that…