Munich, Germany – 9 November 2026 – Intellias, a global partner for AI-enabled product engineering and digital solutions, has been named a finalist at The European Software Testing Awards 2026 for Physical Performance Analyzer, an AI-enabled accelerator for testing in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. The solution is shortlisted in the AI-Powered Quality Assurance category. Winners will be announced in London on 17 November 2026.
Organized by UK-based Test Associates, The European Software Testing Awards is now in its 13th year, and an independent panel of judges selects finalists among testing projects, teams, and organizations from the UK and Europe.
Measuring how fast an IVI system responds to a driver often still takes two people: one triggers the event, the other times it with a stopwatch. Human reaction time makes the readings vary: in a navigation startup scenario tested by Intellias, manual results differed from the accelerator’s measurements by about one to three seconds.
With Physical Performance Analyzer, a single test engineer describes the start and stop events in plain language, such as “the door opens” or “the map is fully loaded.” A vision-language model finds the matching video frames, the PANNs model classifies sounds across 527 categories, and a large language model adapts each description for these models. A coarse-to-fine search locates the exact frame with about 100 model calls per minute of video instead of roughly 1,800, and in the tested setup analysis took about four minutes on a single GPU. Results go into CI/CD pipelines as millisecond-level reports.
Infotainment response time is one of the first things a driver notices, and in many test labs it’s still measured with a stopwatch. We built Physical Performance Analyzer so a test engineer can describe an event in plain words and get a frame-accurate number on every build. Reaching the final shows the testing community sees the same gap our automotive validation teams see.
Physical Performance Analyzer is the latest Intellias Mobility solution to gain industry recognition. In 2025, Zeekr’s navigation app, developed by Zeekr Technology Europe with Intellias and powered by Mapbox, was named Navigation App of the Year at the AutoTech Breakthrough Awards. In software testing, Intellias won the Asia Pacific Software Testing Awards 2024 for Best Advancing Software Testing Practice and was a finalist at the European and North American Software Testing Awards 2023 in the same category. Physical Performance Analyzer is available to OEM and Tier-1 test teams building automated IVI performance pipelines.