Leading the Digital New Deal in Gyeonggi Province! AICT discloses public autonomous car data

For one of the key projects of the digital new deal in Gyeonggi-do, AICT decided to disclose public autonomous car data. Why and what is it?

Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology discloses public autonomous car data for the first time in Korea

Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology (AICT, Director Joo Yeong-chang) is disclosing its autonomous driving data collected in Pangyo Zero City and making it available for public access for the vitalization of Korea's autonomous driving industry. The data will be disclosed through the public data utilization project, and will be the first autonomous driving data collected in actual road environments to be released to the public.

The public data utilization project is a government-wide public data disclosure project for Korea's Digital New Deal and the data economy. The disclosed data encompass 6 domains and 46 fields, which will stimulate growth of new industries, such as autonomous driving, healthcare, smart city and disaster safety management, as well as assist citizens’ lives.

Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology strives for the vitalization of Korea's autonomous driving industry
ⓒGyeonggi Province

The AICT decided to disclose the safety control event video that was automatically extracted by the intelligent CCTV installed in Pangyo Zero City (Pangyo Techno Valley 1 and 2), the first urban autonomous driving testbed in Korea. In order to protect personal data, an annotation file for major subjects that are made to be non-identifiable (e.g. pedestrians, cars, traffic lights) is going to be provided as well. The AICT's Gyeonggi Autonomous Driving Center is the first organization to disclose autonomous driving data collected in actual road environments where autonomous vehicle infrastructure rather than data collected in virtual environments or special control areas. The AICT's disclosed autonomous driving video data can be used as training data for AI programs to learn object recognition and situational awareness. Local governments and research centers that are building safety systems for autonomous vehicles can also use the data.

The AICT, which has been independently producing its autonomous vehicle Zero Shuttle, and securing empirical data that can minimize risks in actual road environments, will lead the development of autonomous vehicles, which is one of the key projects of the Digital New Deal.