[News] Ouster and DXOMARK Announce Strategic Collaboration on the World’s First Native Color Lidar with REV8

Ouster, Inc., a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, announced today its strategic collaboration with DXOMARK, a global leader in image quality evaluation and developer of advanced testing solutions. This partnership aims to test and optimize the next generation of sensing technologies, starting with the new Ouster Rev8 OS family, the world’s first native color lidar.

As sensing technologies evolve toward more complex, multi-modal systems, the need for accurate, reliable, and standardized performance evaluation becomes critical. This collaboration brings DXOMARK’s 20 years of expertise in image quality testing and sensor benchmarking to Ouster’s cutting-edge digital lidar technology to support the development and optimization of next-generation sensing products. Through rigorous independent testing, DXOMARK enables Ouster to maximize system performance and image quality for the most demanding real-world environments.

During the development of Ouster Rev8, DXOMARK provided a comprehensive analysis of Image Sensor Processing and conducted a series of advanced tests to assess and optimize system performance in real-world scenarios. These included computation and evaluations of color fidelity, environmental robustness, and perception accuracy under varying lighting and weather conditions, ensuring Rev8 meets the requirements of next generation use cases.

“DXOMARK is a leader in image quality testing across multiple industries. Their rigorous and trusted benchmarking methodologies make them an ideal partner as we continue to push the boundaries of sensing performance and perception systems,” said Ouster CEO Angus Pacala.

Where traditional cameras struggle in adverse weather and lidar has historically been limited to near-infrared light, Ouster’s Rev8 native color lidar bridges the gap. By expanding the sensor’s vision to the full range of human-visible color, Rev8 captures a massive increase in environmental data with intuitive visual information. Critically, even when objects exceed the lidar’s detection range, integrated color data continues to provide a rich stream of information, maintaining visual awareness where depth data cannot reach. With structural and color data fused through physics at the silicon level, the system requires no complex calibration, allowing the industry to instantly pair lidar precision with computer vision to power the next era of Physical AI.

“We are proud to collaborate with Ouster, a company that shares our commitment to innovation, on its new Rev8 sensors. This partnership represents an important step in extending our image quality expertise to new 3D depth sensing domains and supporting the development of next-generation perception systems,” said Frédéric Guichard, CEO of DXOMARK.

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