“Cooperating with leading research institutions is of the utmost importance,” said Kurt Lehmann, Continental’s corporate technology officer. “It is an important building block that will enable us to measure up to the persistent demands calling on us to shape the mobility of the future and acquire qualified employees and executives for tomorrow.”
Professor Andrea Vedaldi, a principal investigator in Oxford’s Visual Geometry Group, added: “The Group is thrilled to collaborate with Continental in applying its cutting-edge research in deep learning and computer vision to the important and demanding domain of assisted mobility. We believe that, due to the extensive presence of Continental’s technology in the automotive sector, incorporating state of the art artificial intelligence systems in its products has significant transformative potential.”
The envisaged three year partnership includes new postdoctoral research positions at Oxford, with plans to extend the research scope and the time frame in the future.