
DEMOCRATIZING ROAD SCENARIO COLLECTION
Scalable . Smart . Connected
THE PROBLEM
One of the largest roadblocks of the autonomous vehicle industry in achieving Level 4 and above autonomy is the challenge of validating AV performance under real-world conditions. To sufficiently address this, companies often require an exhaustive collection of realistic domain-specific driving scenarios. This is all in the hopes of training the AV to safely maneuver even the “edge cases” that may occur when operating a vehicle in the real world.


WHO WE ARE
We are a group of Mechatronics Engineering students with shared technical experience from several companies including Uber ATG, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. Together, we aim to accelerate the development and adoption of level 4 and 5 self-driving vehicles.
THE FOREST AI TEAM

TIANYU GUO

ISAAC CHANG

TAMIM FARUK

KHALED BERRY
OUR SOLUTION
Scalable. Smart. Connected. Guard.
Forest AI is aiming to create the first low cost in-vehicle driving scenario collection system, Guard, of which the primary goal is to enable crowdsourcing as a method of data collection for on-road traffic scenarios. Facilitating this method of data collection will accelerate the validation of self-driving vehicles by providing realistic domain specific driving scenarios at scale which can be used in autonomous vehicle simulation systems to ensure the behavioural competency of self-driving cars. In addition, the scalability of the platform will unlock the massive amount of edge-case driving scenarios of which self-driving cars are inevitably going to encounter on the road. The two-part system is comprised of a user friendly in-vehicle sensor suite in addition to a cloud-based video annotation and data storage system managed by Forest AI.

AWARDS

PROBLEM LAB PITCH 1ST PLACE WINNERS
November 17, 2019
Team Forest AI was the recipient of the Quantum Valley Problem Lab Award for identifying a ‘Billion Dollar’ problem. Team Forest AI presented the premise for Guard, identifying the challenges of having an unconstrained number of unique driving scenarios and the consequences this has on the AV industry.
GM CANADA CAPSTONE DESIGN SEED FUND
October 14, 2019
Team Forest was one of two recipients of GM’s Innovation Award for identifying a problem in the autonomous vehicle industry that prevents it from being more inclusive and accessible.

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