Systems, methods and apparatuses of radar Electronic Control Units (ECUs) of autonomous vehicles. A radar ECU can include: a memory configured to store a radar image and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN); an inference engine configured to use the (ANN) to analyze the radar image and generate inference results; and a communication interface coupled to a computer system of a vehicle to implement an advanced driver assistance system to operate the controls according to the inference results and a sensor data stream generated by sensors configured on the vehicle.