Mobileye has introduced the vision-only Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA) solution for automakers, following testing and certification across Europe. The camera-only solution helps global automakers meet new European Union (EU) General Safety Regulation (GSR) standards requiring automatic sensing of speed limits in all new vehicle models, without the need to rely on third-party maps and GPS data.
The new software, designed for Mobileye’s EyeQ platform, has been certified for use in all 27 EU countries as well as Israel, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey. The EyeQ4 and EyeQ6-based ISA system allows OEMs whose vehicles already integrate these chips to meet the new standards merely by updating the EyeQ’s existing software, without any new hardware requirements.
The Mobileye ISA system is expected to be integrated by a major global auto group into two vehicle brands for models going on sale in Europe later this year, with three other global automakers following close behind in 2024 and beyond.
Mobileye has developed several technologies that upgraded the legacy traffic sign recognition technology to meet GSR requirements, including:
- Traffic sign relevancy technology that identifies whether a speed sign is relevant to a specific lane,
- Signature-based classification that loads the ‘signature’ of a new traffic sign to the vehicle, even for new signs that were introduced after the vehicle’s manufacture,
- OCR-based city entrance identification for European-style signs,
- Advanced search engines that allow finding examples of rare signs in Mobileye’s huge clips database and integrate them into the system, and
- Road-type classifier that can work out the right speed, even when traffic signs are missing, by using different cues in the scene to detect the road type.
