NODAR, the leading provider of multi-camera 3D vision technology, was awarded the Informa Tech Automotive Awards 2021 for Startup of the Year.
The Informa Tech Automotive Awards, formerly known as TU-Automotive Awards, celebrates the best talent, products, and services across automotive technology.
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“We are honored to be recognized by Informa as Startup of the Year,” says Leaf Jiang, Chief Executive Officer of NODAR. “Winning this award further validates our approach. Reliable, high-resolution depth sensing is essential to the future of autonomous driving and NODAR aims to provide that for every vehicle.”
NODAR’s camera-based 3D vision software technology is a crucial component in the development of ADAS and autonomous vehicles bringing safety, advanced performance, and cost-effectiveness to the automotive market. Between 2025 and 2030 a projected 250 million vehicles will require L2 and above autonomy to understand their environment and provide the high-level of safety required as autonomous systems control more of the driving function.
NODAR’s 3D vision platform, Hammerhead, delivers reliable, ultra-precise, and real-time 3D sensing at long-range (up to 1000 meters), providing LiDAR-quality at the price point of camera technology. Current vision systems use single cameras to infer size and distance, but can only determine distance to a small set of predefined objects such as cars and pedestrians, and these inference-based AI systems have not been accurate or reliable enough for driverless operations/L4 vehicles and higher. NODAR overcomes these limitations and enables any-object-detection by comparing perspectives from multiple cameras to create physical measurements of distance to each pixel in the scene.
NODAR’s 3D vision platform delivers reliable, ultra-precise, and real-time 3D sensing at a long-range (up to 1000 meters), providing LiDAR-quality at the price point of camera technology. NODAR uniquely provides long-range, high-density, high frame-rate 3D data and can detect any object as small as 10cm at 150m range.