Muhammad Zain Khawaja

Muhammad Zain Khawaja is a senior tech lead at the Autoware Foundation, where he leads the development of a new open-source autonomous highway pilot system within Autoware. Khawaja is also the lead developer and architect of the AutoSeg Vision Foundation Model. Prior to joining Autoware, Khawaja gained his MEng from Oxford and was an early software engineer at Oxa. Khawaja was also CEO and founder of UK-based autonomous driving startup, Propelmee, which holds the record for the longest-ever recorded autonomous journey on UK public roads. Khawaja also previously founded a VC-backed virtual reality startup.

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AutoSeg Vision Foundation Model with OpenADKit – scalable, deployable AI

The AutoSeg Vision Foundation model is an artificial intelligence framework powering camera-based scene understanding for autonomous driving, developed by the Autoware Foundation. AutoSeg’s custom neural network architecture processes images and computes multiple perception outputs including semantic segmentation, 3D scene estimation, end-to-end path prediction and lane detection – forming the building blocks of autonomous driving. Combining AutoSeg with Autoware’s OpenADKit -offers a modular, scalable and cross-platform AI system which can be trained in the cloud, deployed on the edge and updated over-the-air as part of a holistic data pipeline, enabling autonomous cars to learn as they drive.