Intel’s RealSense brings computer vision to machines to visually process and understand its surroundings.
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Intel’s RealSense platform was created to “enable intelligent, interactive and autonomous machines with human-like 3D perception”. Intel has complimented its acquisition of Movidius with the purchase of several machine learning, cognitive computing and deep learning companies.
Remi El-Ouazzane, the CEO of Movidius, goes on to explain in its statement that while its been attacking the evolution of autonomous machines from a device level, with Intel, the Movidius team will be attacking these trends from the cloud.
“Upon integration, computer vision enables navigation and mapping, collision avoidance, tracking, object recognition, inspection analytics and more – capabilities that are extremely compelling in emerging markets”.
“The ability to track, navigate, map and recognize both scenes and objects using Movidius’ low-power and high-performance SoCs [systems on chips] opens opportunities in areas where heat, battery life and form factors are key”, Josh Walden, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s New Technology Group, wrote in a blog post yesterday. This means the SoC can be used in devices where access to power is contained, such as small drones, yet still allow computer vision systems to run. Movidius is working on the Google’s Project Tango after declaring its association with Google in January, 2016.
Movidius has existing deals with Lenovo, for its Myriad 2 processors, and with Google, to use its neural computation engine to improve machine learning capabilities of mobile devices.
Intel says Movidius will help advance its RealSense platform-specifically augmented/virtual/merged reality, drones, robotics, and digital security cameras.
This year has seen the chipmaker showcase Project Alloy, a reference platform for a wireless VR headset that packs all the sensors and chips needed to power it within the headset, rather than relying on external sensors or a PC to provide the processing grunt.
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The addition of Movidius’ technology to RealSense will help “trigger a Cambrian explosion of compute” for the estimated 50 billion devices expected to be network-connected by 2020, Walden said yesterday.
