What is machine vision?
Machine vision is to use the machine instead of the human eye to make measurements and judgments. Machine vision system refers to the conversion of the ingested target into an image signal by machine vision products (ie, image capture device, divided into CMOS and CCD), and transmitted to a dedicated image processing system, which is transformed according to pixel distribution, brightness, color, and the like. Digital signals; the image system performs various operations on these signals to extract features of the target, and then controls the device actions on the scene according to the result of the discrimination.
Different from the image recognition and capture functions of traditional machine vision, the Tango project with human visual function can configure a variety of cameras and vision sensors to enable future smartphones and tablets to capture data that application developers have never touched. Includes tracking and depth sensing, as well as real-time 3D graphics.
For example, by using a camera to display a long-range heat map, and with image sensors, motion sensors, and gyroscopes, Tango can draw motion trajectories with 1% accuracy and create an interactive 3D map; gamers can use mobile phones. / The tablet establishes a 3D model of the current environment, so that immersive home soldiers and friends can simulate offensive and defensive battles; deep tracking technology allows blind people to "see" objects in front, avoid obstacles in time, and integrate such Technical wearables can completely replace the cane.
Who is the chip giant behind the Tango plan?
As a visual processing chip company deeply involved in the Google Tango project, Movidius CEO Remi El-Ouazzane commented on Tango as “absolutely a key project that is critical to Google’s future development.†The company’s low-power computer vision The processing unit (VPU) chip Myriad2 can realize spatial positioning of 6 degrees of freedom, which can judge the retinal movement of the human eye, so that the smart phone has a human perspective and can fully perceive the space and depth of field. In general, a camera lens or various visual sensors can only be regarded as a visual eye, while a VPU is a brain for thinking.
Movidius CEO Remi El-Ouazzane
In fact, Microsoft's Kinect and Apple's PrimeSense allow digital devices to gain real-world awareness, but Google intends to use the technology on mobile phones. Remi El-Ouazzane said why computaTIonal imaging has not been converted to practical applications. The main reason is that power consumption is difficult to break through. Of course, this also explains why Google chose the Movidius VPU because "the price of similar products is 5 times that of ours, the power consumption is 10 times that of ours, the performance is only 1/10 of our performance, and the size is 7 times our size. â€
Movidius is a company focused on developing vision processing chips with innovative video processing chips and a robust software development kit (SDK) environment. The company was founded in 2006. The early technology was derived from a Ph.D. thesis at Trinity University. It has Daniel Dobberpuhl, the father of processor, and Dr. Wu Xiong, a computer science/computer vision expert at Carnegie Mellon University. And a strong technical advisory board, including iPhone hardware chief engineer David Tupman.
Recently, Moviduis announced the completion of a new round of $40 million in financing, which is the largest amount of funding that fabless semiconductor companies have received over the past two years. Investors include China Bridge's Summit Bridge Capital, Sunny OpTIcal Technology Group, ARCH Venture Partners, AtlanTIc Bridge Capital, AIB Seed Capital Fund, Capital-E, DFJ Esprit and Robert Bosch Venture Capital focus on the next wave of emerging applications such as virtual reality devices, drones, home automation, security and wearables.
Remi El-Ouazzane also talked about some ideas about opening up the Chinese market because of the venture capital from China. “Chinese customers have shown a strong interest in using our advanced visual processing technology to develop next-generation connected devices. Although I can’t reveal the name of the partner, everyone knows that China has the best smartphones and drones in the world. Industrial robot manufacturers, we will soon announce a very heavyweight cooperation."
According to the plan, Movidius will establish the China Engineering Center in Shenzhen in 2015. The first phase will recruit about 10 application and system engineers to meet the growing needs of Chinese customers through contact, understanding and support for the local market. And the needs of partners.
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