MWS China 2021 Speaker

Weide Zhang

  • FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., Ltd
  • Chief Architect
  • Biography

Weide Zhang is chief architect of FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co.,Ltd supervising the development of L2-L4 development of autonomous technology. Before FAW, he was a senior architect at Baidu and one of the early founding members of Baidu Apollo team. Before Baidu, he had been working in various areas of system development as well as machine learning in the past 7 years. He has Masters degree in Computer Science and System Engineering from University of Virginia and Bachelors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

  • Presentation

The Requirements of Lidar in Autonomous Driving

Lidar plays an important role in autonomous driving. The 3d geometry information obtained from lidar makes it suitable for tasks such as object detection, localization, etc. I will showcase the autonomous driving system we built in FAW Nanjing and talks about the strengths and challenges of using Lidar as main sensor. In addition, I will talk about what Lidar can accomplish in L2-L4 driving and sensor level requirements for autonomous driving from OEM prospective.

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  • Company Profile

FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., Ltd

FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., LTD (referred to as FAW Nanjing Company) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FAW Group Corporation, which was established on April 9, 2020. FAW Nanjing Company, as FAW Group Corporation’s Artificial Intelligence research and development center, mainly focus on AI perception system and AI big data platfom. The AI perception system is able to support L2-L4 autonomous driving. The AI big data platform includes data analysis, customer behavior analysis, and so on. The company aim to be a reliable intelligent driving partner, who infuses vehicles with soul, and makes travel easier.

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