On April 20th, as one of the few suppliers of automotive intelligent driving assistance chips and solutions in China, Horizon reopened the Technology Experience Day. Different from the technical solutions focused on ADAS released in the past, this time Horizon brings a complete set of all-scenario intelligent driving solutions, including: the world's first mass-produced 8-megapixel single-view ADAS solution, Horizon Matrix Mono; the only weekly vision perception NOA that can support large-scale landing in China, Horizon Matrix Pilot; and the industry's first in-vehicle intelligent interaction solution that realizes multi-mode voice pre-fusion landing, Horizon Halo。
At the same time, Horizon's Journey series chips are the only vehicle-grade AI chips that have achieved front-loading mass production in both the autonomous driving domain and the smart cockpit domain. Horizon has the industry's only series of vehicle-grade AI chips covering the journey series that supportSpeed L2 to L4 intelligent driving applications, and has experience in algorithm knowhow and mass production engineering for the intelligent landing of all-scenario vehicles. Through soft and hard collaborative optimization, Horizon will continue to expand the algorithm leading edge and accelerate the efficiency of product iteration.
Horizon Matrix Mono Front-View Assisted Driving Solution
Horizon Matrix Mono is a global leading single-vision perception solution for the forward-looking ADAS market based on Horizon Curve-grade AI chip Journey 2 and Journey 3. Includes the Mono 2 for L0-L2 and the Mono 3 series for L2+.
Mono 2 is the only monocular visual ADAS solution based on domestic AI chips, which can effectively identify 128 kinds of targets such as pedestrians, vehicles, and traffic signs in terms of traffic target detection and identification, especially lane line detection, vehicle classification detection, special type detection, ranging accuracy and other perceptual performance is comprehensively superior to competitors.
Based on the deep understanding of China's local roads and scenes, Horizon has been specially optimized for most of the characteristic road scenes, and has realized the high-precision detection and effective identification of "no one has me", such as Chinese characteristic models (tricycles, xenocars, bicycles, etc.), Chinese characteristic lane lines (fishbone lines, etc.), Chinese characteristic traffic signs (traffic lights, road signs, etc.), and typical traffic obstacles (cone barrels).
Mono 3 is a bold innovation, can abandon the higher cost of millimeter wave radar or lidar, through the 8 million pixel single sight camera, to achieve NOA, L2+ driving assistance and fully automatic parking, etc., is the world's first mass production level 8MP pixel single current sight ADAS solution.
Relying on the detection distance improvement and ISP performance improvement brought by the 8MP high-definition camera, it supports ultra-long-distance vehicle detection (including 3D), supports farther traffic lights and stop zebra crossing ground marking detection, and supports long-distance and light changes in the tunnel and tunnel lane line detection. In complex road scenarios, the function utilization rate can be improved, and the functions of automatic adaptation to cruise (ACC), high-speed cruise lane central driving assistance (ICA), and traffic congestion assistance (TJA) can be more stable, and the functions can be smoothly passed through urban intersections and tunnels.
The camera angle is increased from 100° to 120°, providing a wider lateral perception range, adjacent lane vehicles appear in the forward horizontal view of the car, even in the case of occlusion, Mono 3 can still detect cut-in vehicles earlier, automatic adaptive cruise (ACC), traffic congestion assist (TJA) function performance is more stable.
The accompanying Journey 3 chip is the only high-performance vehicle-grade AI chip on the market that has low power consumption and can support 8MP pixel camera front-view integrated machines. Its single chip power consumption is only 2.5W, which is much lower than the 30W of NVIDIA Xavier, achieving the advantage of computing power per unit of power.
Horizon Matrix Pilot Pilot Pilot Assisted Driving Solution
The solution is based on horizon journey series chips and high-performance algorithms, covering intelligent driving needs such as forward vision perception and 360 ° circumferential vision perception, which can help customers achieve rapid front-loading mass production of visually centralized intelligent driving solutions, realize the landing of L2+ automatic driving, and improve travel efficiency with intelligence.
Horizon Matrix Pilot can provide customers with large-scale deliverable weekly vision perception NOA solutions, using 10 cameras (6 ADAS driving cameras, 4-way surround view parking cameras) to achieve 360 ° blind spot perception coverage of the whole vehicle; compared with radar, it can achieve more accurate target classification, and accurately determine the lateral position of the target and the lane information. For example, through the cross-camera tracking function to track the vehicle from other perspectives in advance, predict the intention of lane change, and through the strengthening of the rear and side rear perception capabilities, improve the performance of lane change, and ensure higher safety and experience comfort.
While ensuring the safety and reliability of the system, passive heat dissipation can popularize the NOA function that is currently only a high-end pure electric model to the mainstream fuel model, which greatly accelerates the process of popularizing the intelligent driving function (the only NOA solutions that have been mass-produced using Zhoushi perception are Xiaopeng NGP and Tesla NOA).
Thanks to the advantages of high performance and low power consumption of the Journey series chips, Pilot can integrate the driving and parking functions into the same domain controller through the effective use of the computing power of the three Journey 3 chips, making the overall intelligent driver assistance system more compact and convenient for the layout of the whole vehicle.
Horizon Halo in-vehicle intelligent interaction solution
Horizon Halo 3.0 is a new, high-performance in-vehicle intelligent interaction solution based on Horizon Journey 3.
With the 5 TOPS computing power provided by Journey 3, up to 6 camera access capabilities. Halo 3.0 provides a complete set of AI solutions including DMS, face detection, behavior detection, gesture recognition, children's behavior detection, multi-mode voice interaction and other functions for front and rear users. Create a smart, safe, proactive, and natural ride experience. In addition, in order to help the openness and win-win of the industry ecosystem, Halo 3.0 provides a flexible and easy-to-use development toolset and a high-quality basic algorithm package, enabling developers to develop differentiated AI algorithms and applications at the lowest cost to meet the increasingly rich user needs in cockpit scenarios.
Horizon believes that man-machine co-driving is an inevitable trend in the next stage of intelligent vehicle development, and the ultimate form of intelligent car application is a person-centered "all-scenario vehicle intelligence", which includes full-scene automatic driving, vehicle-computer interaction and vehicle intelligence with internal and external linkage.
Full-scene vehicle intelligence, through the pre-communication of the intelligent driving system to automatic driving behavior, so that users better understand the decision-making and execution logic of the machine, to establish better psychological safety; through the rich definition of the whole scene, so that the machine understands people's behavior and habits better, can be based on the outside of the car and the driver's state of the car fusion judgment active intervention; based on the scene perception and understanding of the car dynamic adjustment of driving strategy, so as to establish human-machine mutual trust, to create an intelligent and humanized driving experience.
In 2020, Horizon officially opened the first year of the front-loading mass production of China's automotive intelligent chips, achieving a breakthrough from 0 to 1, and today, horizon journey chip shipments have exceeded 1 million pieces, obtained 45+ front-loading mass production projects, and worked with partners to achieve value exploration from 1 to N.
At present, Horizon has reached in-depth cooperation with OTI, BYD, Changan Automobile, Great Wall Motor, Dongfeng Motor, GAC Group, Hongqi, Jiangqi Group, Ideal Automobile, Chery Automobile, SAIC Motor and other OEMs, as well as Tier1 such as Desay SV, Neusoft Ruichi, Continental Group, Freetech, Faurecia, Huayang, Asia Pacific, and InBev Supercomputer to quickly build an open and win-win intelligent car core ecology.
Up to now, Changan UNI-T, Chery Ant, Zhiji Automobile, Changan UNI-K, GAC Aian AION Y, Dongfeng Lantu FREE, JAC Sihao QX, GAC Trumpchi GS4 Plus, SAIC Maxus MIFA concept car, 2021 Ideal ONE, Great Wall Haval H9-2022, Changan UNI-V and other models have been announced to be equipped with Horizon Journey chips. More models equipped with the Horizon Journey series chips will be released one after another.
The Journey 5 chip released in August last year is the third generation of vehicle specification products launched by Horizon after Journey 2 and Journey 3, with both high performance and large computing power. Based on Horizon's latest BPU Bayesian architecture design, The journey 5 hash rate of up to 128 TOPS for a single chip, up to 1283 FPS for real AI performance, supports 16-channel camera perceptual computing, and competes for efficient collaboration in milliseconds.
Unlike Bosch, Mobileye and NVIDIA, Horizon provides chips and optional production-grade algorithms to help customers and partners accelerate the mass production of intelligent driving applications, and can provide flexible and open development tools to support partners to develop efficiently and create customized and differentiated applications. Through in-depth alliance and collaborative innovation with partners, we can provide car companies with rich solutions for the landing of all-scenario vehicle intelligent applications.