Fraunhofer Representative Office Beijing
Teaching tomorrow’s automobiles to hear

© Fraunhofer IDMT/Hannes Kalter


 
Modern cars already feature a range of sophisticated systems such as remote-controlled parking, automatic lane-departure warning and drowsiness recognition. In the future, self-driving cars will also have auditory capabilities. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Oldenburg, Germany, have now developed a prototype system capable of recognizing external noises such as sirens.



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