Scientists in Japan have developed a groundbreaking AI synapse that recognizes colors nearly as well as the human eye, promising great advances in energy-efficient visual recognition for smartphones, drones, and autonomous vehicles.
The research team at the Tokyo University of Science developed the self- powered optoelectronic device, which operates entirely on light, to address the high power, storage and computational demands of current machine vision systems.
Led by Associate Professor Takashi Ikuno, PhD, from the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the university’s School of Advanced Engineering, the study was inspired by the human visual system, which they say is highly efficient at filtering visual data.
“The results show great potential for the application of this next- generation optoelectronic device, which enables high-resolution color discrimination and logical operations simultaneously, to low-power artificial intelligence (AI) systems with visual recognition,” Ikuno explained.
(My first reaction was this could make for better soldier robots. China already made robots that learned from humans how to do hand to hand combat.)
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