Computer Vision News - October 2021

2 Summary AI Systems for Autonomous Mobility 16 Spleenlab.ai is a pure AI software company, specializing in safe and intelligent AI systems for autonomous mobility, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and autonomous driving. Their vision is to be an AI software supplier for air taxis, which are a composition of both UAVs and autonomous vehicles. Stefan Milz is Head of R&D, Managing Director and Founder of Spleenlab GmbH. He received his PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Munich and has a strong history in professional software development and automotive. Stefan tells us more about Spleenlab. To date, AI research has tended to focus on achieving higher accuracy, better models, and more trustworthy or explainable AI. But for Spleenlab , working in the field of autonomous mobility, safety is king . The domains of UAVs, autonomous driving, and airborne systems are all regulated by entities such as EASA in Europe and the FAA in the United States. There are important industrial standards such as ISO 26262 in the automotive domain and DO-178 for software in airborne systems, as well as new standards emerging in the UAV domain. Systems are expected to have a fully deterministic behaviour. “We believe that people need extreme safety, ” Stefan tells us. “It’s important to foresee what state your system can achieve in an automated scene. We want to have a Automotive Sensor Fusion