Redrawing the World in LiDAR
Web App Design — Product Design — Designing for 3D
An example of a car (the red dot) moving through an annotated LiDAR space, full of colorful cuboids (wevolver.com)
TLDR —
Self-driving cars rely on several systems to help understand the world around it. One involves drawing and labeling boxes (🟥 🟨 🟦) around point clusters in the LiDAR point cloud space — aka, annotating cuboids.
While some third-party annotation tools exist, we wanted to create our own solution to have better control of the annotation process from start to finish. This project details how we’ve built our own annotation tooling from the ground up to help train cars to see the world in LiDAR.
My Role
Senior product designer responsible for in-depth research, and end-to-end design of the annotator experience across the labeling platform
Team
1 product designer, 1 product manager, 3 frontend engineers @ Motional. We also worked closely with our Data Operations teams to build research feedback loops.
Timeline
December 2021 - May 2022 beta launch. Annotation team has since tripled in size. Ongoing research + feature development to this date.