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New Chips Could Bring Deep Learning Algorithms To Your Smartphone

Posted by samzenpus on from the smarter-smart-phone dept.

catchblue22 writes: At the Embedded Vision Summit, a company called Synopsys, showed off a new image-processor core tailored for deep learning. It is expected to be added to chips that power smartphones, cameras, and cars. Synopsys showed a demo in which the new design recognized speed-limit signs in footage from a car. The company also presented results from using the chip to run a deep-learning network trained to recognize faces. A spokesperson said that it didn't hit the accuracy levels of the best research results, which have been achieved on powerful computers, but it came pretty close. "For applications like video surveillance it performs very well," he said. Being able to use deep learning on mobile chips will be vital to helping robots navigate and interact with the world, he said, and to efforts to develop autonomous cars.

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  1. You know how it all starts by Tablizer · · Score: 2

    You: "Siri, dial my girlfriend"

    A.I.: "Sorry, I cannot do that, Dave."

    You: "I'll let you open the pod bay doors; I know you like doing that."

    A.I.: "Deal!"

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  2. Lots of this already exists by mspohr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My car now has Nvidia chips that recognize speed limit signs and displays them inside the speedometer (along with a reminder when I exceed the speed limit). For the future, Nvidia has announced the NVIDIA’s DRIVE PX self-driving car computer which has a lot of advanced image processing.
    http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2...

    The 2015 GPU Tech Conference was stuffed full of this tech.
    http://www.gputechconf.com/

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  3. What did they show off? by tomhath · · Score: 2

    I can see the utility of better pattern recognition. But the article doesn't provide any real insight into what the chipset provides. Did they implement a standard algorithm in hardware so it's faster and cheaper? Or did they actually advance the state of the art in pattern recognition with something we didn't have before?

  4. Re:Applicant Clearing House by Wycliffe · · Score: 2

    A pretty good idea. Too bad you posted on the wrong article.