The GenX320 event-based vision sensor builds on Prophesee’s track record of proven success and expertise in delivering the speed, low latency, dynamic range and power efficiency and privacy benefits of event-based?vision to a diverse array of applications.
The 320×320 6.3μm pixel BSI stacked event-based vision sensor offers a tiny 1/5” optical format. It has been developed with a specific focus on the unique requirements of efficient integration of innovative event sensing in energy-, compute and size-constrained embedded at-the-edge vision systems. The GenX320 enables robust, high-speed vision at ultra-low power and in challenging operating and lighting conditions.
“The low-power Edge-AI market offers a diverse range of applications where the power efficiency and performance characteristics of event sensors are ideally suited. We have built on our foundation of commercial success in other application areas and developed this new eventbased Metavision sensor to address the needs of Edge system developers with a sensor that is easy to integrate, configure and optimize for multiple compelling use cases in motion and object detection, presence awareness, gesture recognition, eye tracking, and other high growth areas,” said Luca Verre, CEO and co-founder of Prophesee.
The GenX320 is available for purchase from Prophesee and its sales partners. It is supported by a complete range of development tools for easy exploration and optimization, including a comprehensive Evaluation Kit housing a chip on board (COB) GenX320 module, or a compact optical flex module. In addition, Prophesee is offering assembly kits that enable seamless connectivity to a large range of embedded platforms, such as an STM32 MCU, enabling faster time-to-market.
“Zinn Labs is developing the next generation of gaze tracking systems built on the unique capabilities of Prophesee’s Metavision event sensors. The new GenX320 sensor meets the demands of eye and gaze movements that change on millisecond timescales. Unlike traditional video-based gaze tracking pipelines, Zinn Labs is able to leverage the GenX320 sensor to track features of the eye with a fraction of the power and compute required for full-blown computer vision algorithms, bringing the footprint of the gaze tracking system below 20 mW. The small package size of the new sensor makes this the first time an event-based vision sensor can be applied to space-constrained head-mounted applications in AR/VR products. Zinn Labs is happy to be working with Prophesee and the GenX320 sensor as we move towards integrating this new sensor into upcoming customer projects.”
Kevin Boyle
CEO & Founder
“Privacy continues to be one of the biggest consumer concerns when vision-based technology is used in our products such as DMS and TV services. Prophesee’s event-based Metavision technology enables us to take our ‘privacy by design’ principle to an even more secure level by allowing scene understanding without the need to have explicit visual representation of the scene.?By capturing only?changes in every pixel, rather than the entire scene as with traditional frame-based imaging sensors, our algorithms can derive knowledge to sense what is in the scene, without a detailed representation of it. We have developed a proof-of-concept demo that demonstrates DMS is fully possible using neuromorphic sensors. Using a 1MP neuromorphic sensor we can infer similar performance as an active NIR illumination 2MP vision sensor-based solution. Going forward, we focus on the GenX320 neuromorphic sensor that can be used in privacy sensitive smart devices to improve user experience.”
Petronel Bigioi
Chief Technology Officer
“We have seen the benefits of Prophesee’s event-based sensors in enabling hands-free interaction via highly accurate gesture recognition and hand tracking capabilities in Ultraleap’s TouchFree application. Their ability to operate in challenging environmental conditions, at very efficient power levels, and with low system latency enhances the overall user experience and intuitiveness of our touch free UIs. With the new Genx320 sensor, these benefits of robustness, low power consumption, latency and high dynamic range can be extended to more types of applications and devices, including battery-operated and small form factors systems, proliferating hands-free use cases for increased convenience and ease of use in interacting with all sorts of digital content.”
Tom Carter
CEO & Co-founder
Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems.
The company developed a breakthrough Event-Based Vision approach to machine vision. This new vision category allows for significant reductions of power, latency and data processing requirements to reveal what was invisible to traditional frame-based sensors until now. Prophesee’s patented Metavision? sensors and algorithms mimic how the human eye and brain work to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, mobile and AR/VR. Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley.
The company is driven by a team of more than 100 visionary engineers, holds more than 50 international patents and is backed by leading international equity and corporate investors including 360 Capital Partners, European Investment Bank, iBionext, Inno-Chip, Intel Capital, Renault Group, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sinovation, Supernova Invest, Xiaomi.
Learn more:?www.rfnf.cn/en
PARIS – February 28, 2023 – Prophesee announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Snapdragon to unlock a new image quality paradigm for smartphone cameras at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Following a successful and busy show, Android Authority named Prophesee in their Best of MWC 2023 Awards among top brands and mobile technology providers.
“Blurry pictures are the curse of every smartphone photographer, but not for long. Prophesee has partnered with Qualcomm to bring its “event-based”?Metavision technology to future smartphones.”
Video 1 – Sports scene: Preliminary deblurring results on high-speed scene, obtained combining Prophesee Metavision sensor and algorithms with Snapdragon platform.
The technical and business partnership will enable native compatibility between Prophesee’s Event-Based #Metavision? Sensors & Software and premium Snapdragon? mobile platforms.
This work will lead to dramatically improved camera performance, removing motion blur even in ultra-fast moving scenes and in low light, through Prophesee’s breakthrough shutter-free, continuous and asynchronous pixel sensing approach.
>”Say sayonara to blurry photos thanks to this sharp camera tech.”
Event-Based vision will offer exciting advancements for mobile phone cameras, probably the most important differentiator feature in new phones. Collaborating with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of premium mobile technologies, will help to accelerate mobile industry adoption of Prophesee’s solutions.?
PARIS – October 3, 2022?– The full extent of the power and accessibility of Prophesee’s advanced neuromorphic vision systems will be on display at the 2022 VISION show, with an array of technology showcases, partner demonstrations and live interactions that showcase the company’s breakthrough event-based vision approach to machine vision.
Prophesee will have in-depth product demonstrations at its Booth 8B29 at the premier industry event happening October 4-6 in Stuttgart, Germany. Prophesee will also deliver an overview of its event-based platform on Wednesday, 6 October at 12:20 (Hall 8 Booth C70), entitled “The World Between Frames; Event Camera Come of Age.”
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Prophesee’s Metavision? platform has gained traction with leading developers of machine vision systems in industrial automation, robotics, automotive and IoT. Its event-based vision approach significantly reduces the amount of data needed to capture information. Among the benefits of the sensor and AI technology are ultra-low latency, robustness to challenging lighting conditions, energy efficiency, and low data rate.
The company’s breakthrough sensors, accompanying development tools, open-source algorithms and models are at the foundation of several announcements and demonstrations at the show, including:
“We are very pleased to see the fast-growing ecosystem around event-based vision and the variety of applications this powerful approach to machine vision can be used for. We have made great strides in the Machine Vision world even from last year when we were named best in show by VISION, and this year we shine the spotlight on not just our innovations but the broad range of use cases being enabled by our partners around the world,” said Luca Verre, CEO and co-founder of Prophesee.
Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems.
The company developed a breakthrough Event-Based Vision approach to computer vision. This new vision category allows for significant reductions of power, latency and data processing requirements to reveal what was invisible to traditional frame-based sensors until now. Prophesee’s patented Metavision? sensors and algorithms mimic how the human eye and brain work to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, security and surveillance, and AR/VR.
Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley. The company is driven by a team of more than 100 visionary engineers, holds more than 50 international patents and is backed by leading international equity and corporate investors including 360 Capital Partners, European Investment Bank, iBionext, Intel Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sinovation, Supernova Invest, Will Semiconductor, Xiaomi.
Learn more: www.prophesee.ai
PARIS – October 3, 2022?– Prophesee SA, inventor of the most advanced neuromorphic vision systems, and CIS Corp., a leading developer of industrial camera systems, today announced they have entered into a partnership to develop the industry’s first evaluation kit for implementing 3D sensing based on structured light point cloud generation using event-based vision. The partnership leverages the intelligent individually-activated pixel data processing capabilities of Prophesee’s event-based Metavision? platform and CIS’s extensive experience in developing high-performance camera systems.
The solution leverages advanced VCSEL technology that can deliver unprecedented 3D point cloud generation in the kHz range, with a light burst emission period in the order of 100us as well as higher robustness to fast motion and lighting conditions compared to state-of-the-art techniques.
“The ability to generate highly accurate 3D point clouds using the efficiency of event-based vision opens up new opportunities to capture three-dimensional scenes. Machine vision systems developed with this approach can dramatically improve the performance and operating capabilities needed in many ultra high-speed 3D measurements for Industry 4.0 applications”, said Yusuke Muraoka, President of CIS.
“CIS’ camera platforms are well suited to implementing our approach to data capture. The ability to integrate VCSEL technology enhances the capabilities for 3D sensing significantly. By combining ourrespective areas of strengths we can help developers understand the advantages this brings, as well as provide them with a way to streamline the design and testing of application-optimized machine visions solutions,” said Luca Verre, co-founder and CEO of Prophesee.
Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems.
The company developed a breakthrough Event-Based Vision approach to computer vision. This new vision category allows for significant reductions of power, latency and data processing requirements to reveal what was invisible to traditional frame-based sensors until now. Prophesee’s patented Metavision? sensors and algorithms mimic how the human eye and brain work to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, security and surveillance, and AR/VR.
Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley. The company is driven by a team of more than 100 visionary engineers, holds more than 50 international patents and is backed by leading international equity and corporate investors including 360 Capital Partners, European Investment Bank, iBionext, Intel Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sinovation, Supernova Invest, Will Semiconductor, Xiaomi.
Learn more: www.prophesee.ai
CIS has traditionally been known for its reliable, compact, highspeed, and high-resolution machine vision cameras, and is a leading provider of CoaXPress cameras with a line-up starting from VGA resolution all the way up to 250MPixel cameras.? and the recent introduction of ultra-high speed CoaX over Fiber (CoF) camera.
With eyes on pushing its business frontiers beyond machine vision, CIS is actively involved in the design and development of custom and standard imaging solutions catering to such markets as logistics, robotics and medical. The development of such solutions includes, but not limited to, the provision of optimal cameras, image processing systems, firmware and application software. This has only become possible with the collective expertise of in-house specialist hardware, FPGA, firmware and application software design teams.
PARIS – October 3, 2022?– Prophesee SA, inventor of the most advanced neuromorphic vision systems, and MVTec Software GmbH, a leading international provider of machine vision software, today announced compatibility between MVTec’s standard machine vision software HALCON and Prophesee’s event-based Metavision cameras. The resulting integration, achieved through a jointly developed data acquisition bridge, enables HALCON users to run their machine vision applications directly with a Prophesee event camera and track event-based data with HALCON, opening a wide range of potential applications to take advantage of the performance and power efficiency of this innovative approach to acquiring event-based vision data.
The collaboration strengthens the ability to utilize native event data to expand and optimize overall functionality in MV systems, in a way that cuts development time and ensures a more secure end-to-end development process. The two companies continue to work on broader compatibility between their technologies.
Demonstrations of the integration can be seen at the Prophesee booth 8B29 (Hall8) at VISION 2022 October 4 to 6, in Stuttgart.
The HALCON machine vision software provides a robust set of widely used capabilities that?facilitate rapid development of any kind of machine vision application.?It features the availability of large number of ready-to-use algorithms. Through the integration with Prophesee’s event-based Metavision? cameras, developers can implement machine learning-enabled applications for tasks such as high-speed counting, gauging, matching, defect detection, etc. using event-based data. The integration enables two types of data streaming: 1) frames generated from events or timesurfaces on which users can apply any Halcon 2D processing) and 2) data in XYTP format that can be processed as a 3D point cloud using time as depth axis. This enables next-generation machine vision systems that operate at much higher speed, in challenging lighting conditions, are able to detect the most fleeting cues to improve production quality.
“Event-based cameras have many advantages over traditional frame-based approaches. Supporting them is in line with our own understanding of being a technology leader by providing innovative machine vision software products. We are pleased to work with Prophesee to expand the range of its potential through the support of our industry-proven software HALCON,” said Thomas Hopfner, Product Manager Interfaces at MVTec. “The openness and customizability of both our platforms gives developers a variety of options to take full advantage of the power of event cameras that are now coming to the market from many machine vision suppliers.”
“Being able to integrate and test event-based data within the HALCON environment is a powerful and efficient method to bring exciting new applications to market. We believe this will open up even more opportunities to leverage the time, cost and efficiency benefits event cameras can bring to industrial visions systems,” said Luca Verre, CEO and co-founder of Prophesee.
Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems.
The company developed a breakthrough Event-Based Vision approach to computer vision. This new vision category allows for significant reductions of power, latency and data processing requirements to reveal what was invisible to traditional frame-based sensors until now. Prophesee’s patented Metavision? sensors and algorithms mimic how the human eye and brain work to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, security and surveillance, and AR/VR.
Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley. The company is driven by a team of more than 100 visionary engineers, holds more than 50 international patents and is backed by leading international equity and corporate investors including 360 Capital Partners, European Investment Bank, iBionext, Intel Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sinovation, Supernova Invest, Will Semiconductor, Xiaomi.
Learn more: www.prophesee.ai
MVTec Software GmbH is a leading international manufacturer of software for machine vision?used in all demanding areas of imaging?like the semiconductor industry, surface inspection, automatic optical inspection systems, quality control, metrology, medicine, or surveillance. In particular,?software by MVTec?enables new automation solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things by providing modern technologies like 3D vision, deep learning, and embedded vision. With its headquarters in Munich (Germany), locations in Boston, MA (USA) and Kunshan near Shanghai (China), as well as an established network of international distributors, MVTec is represented in more than 35 countries worldwide.
PARIS, October 3, 2022 – Datalogic, a global technology leader in the automatic data capture and factory automation markets, and Prophesee SA, inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems, announce their recent collaboration regarding the next generation of industrial products.
Datalogic is working with Prophesee to evaluate how this highly innovative platform can bring greater value to its upcoming breakthrough products.
“We are conducting a very fruitful partnership with Prophesee. Neuromorphic vision is a fascinating technology inspired by the behaviour of the human biological system, exactly like Neural Networks. We believe that the combination of these technologies will provide innovative solutions to our customers’ needs”, said Michele Benedetti, Chief Technology Officer at Datalogic.
“Our partnership with Datalogic is a testament to the commercial readiness of our Metavision platform and its ability to meet a growing range of vision challenges. We look forward to continuing to work together, to evolve Datalogic’s advanced vision systems”, said Luca Verre, co-founder and CEO of Prophesee.
Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems.
The company developed a breakthrough Event-Based Vision approach to computer vision. This new vision category allows for significant reductions of power, latency and data processing requirements to reveal what was invisible to traditional frame-based sensors until now. Prophesee’s patented Metavision? sensors and algorithms mimic how the human eye and brain work to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, security and surveillance, and AR/VR.
Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley. The company is driven by a team of more than 100 visionary engineers, holds more than 50 international patents and is backed by leading international equity and corporate investors including 360 Capital Partners, European Investment Bank, iBionext, Intel Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sinovation, Supernova Invest, Will Semiconductor, Xiaomi.
Learn more: www.prophesee.ai
Global technology leader in the automatic data capture and factory automation markets since 1972, specialized in the designing and production of barcode readers, mobile computers, sensors for detection, measurement and safety, machine vision and laser marking systems.
Datalogic S.p.A. is listed in the Euronext STAR Milan segment of the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001 as DAL.MI.
Visit www.datalogic.com
PARIS, September 22, 2022 – Prophesee, the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems, today announced the completion of its Series C round of funding with the addition of a new investment from Prosperity7 ventures. The round now totals €50m, including backing from initial Series C investors Sinovation Ventures and Xiaomi. They join an already strong group of international investors from North America, Europe and Japan that includes Intel Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, 360 Capital, iBionext, and the European Investment Bank.
With the investment round, Prophesee becomes EU’s most well-funded fabless semiconductor startup, having raised a total of €127M since its founding in 2014.
Prosperity7 Ventures, the diversified growth global fund of Aramco Ventures – a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, is on constant search for transformative technologies and innovative business models. Its mission is to invest in the disruptive technologies with the potential to create next-generation technology leaders and bring prosperity on a vast scale. It currently has $1B under management and holds diversified investments across various sectors, including in deep tech and bio-science companies.
“Gaining the support of such a substantial investor as Prosperity7 adds another globally-focused backer that has a long-term vision and understanding of the requirements to achieve success with a deep tech semiconductor investment. Their support is a testament to the progress achieved and the potential that lies ahead for Prophesee. We appreciate the rigor which they, and all our investors, have used in evaluating our technology and business model and are confident their commitment to a long-term relationship will be mutually beneficial,” said Luca Verre, co-founder and CEO of Prophesee.
The round builds further momentum for Prophesee in accelerating the development and commercialization of its next generation hardware and software products, as well as position it to address new and emerging market opportunities and further scale the company. The support from its investors strengthens its ability to develop business opportunities across key ecosystems in semiconductors, industrial, robotics, IoT and mobile devices.
Event cameras address the challenges of applying computer vision in innovative ways
“Prophesee is leading the development of a very unique solution that has the potential to revolutionize and transform the way motion is captured and processed.” noted Aysar Tayeb, the Executive Managing Director at Prosperity7. “The company has established itself as a clear leader in applying neuromorphic methods to computer vision with its revolutionary event-based Metavision? sensing and processing approach. With its fundamentally differentiated AI-driven sensor solution, its demonstrated track record with global leaders such as Sony, and its fast-growing ecosystem of more than 5,000 developers using its technology, we believe Prophesee is well-positioned to enable paradigm-shift innovation that brings new levels of safety, efficiency and sustainability to various market segments, including smartphones, automotive, AR/VR and industrial automation.” Aysar further emphasized “Prophesee and its unique team hit the criteria we are constantly searching for in startup companies with truly disruptive, life-changing technologies.”
Prophesee’s approach to enabling machines to see is a fundamental shift from traditional camera methods and aligns directly with the increasing need for more efficient ways to capture and process the dramatic increase in the volume of video input. By utilizing neuromorphic techniques to mimic the way that human brain and eye work, Prophesee’s event-based Metavision technology significantly reduces the amount of data needed to capture information. Among the benefits of the sensor and AI technology are ultra-low latency, robustness to challenging lighting conditions, energy efficiency, and low data rate. This makes it well-suited for a broad range of applications in industrial automation, IoT, consumer electronics that require real-time video data analysis while operating under demanding power consumption, size and lighting requirements.
Prophesee has gained market traction with key partners around the world who are incorporating its technology into sophisticated vision systems for uses cases in smartphones, AR/VR headsets, factory automation and maintenance, science and health research. Its partnership with Sony has resulted in a next generation HD vision sensor that combines Sony’s CMOS image sensor technology with Prophesee’s unique event-based Metavision? sensing technology. It has established commercial partnership with leading machine vision suppliers such as Lucid, Framos, Imago and Century Arks, and its open-source model for accessing its software and development tools has enabled a fast-growing community of 5,000+ developers using the technology in new and innovative ways.
Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems.
The company developed a breakthrough Event-Based Vision approach to computer vision. This new vision category allows for significant reductions of power, latency and data processing requirements to reveal what was invisible to traditional frame-based sensors until now. Prophesee’s patented Metavision? sensors and algorithms mimic how the human eye and brain work to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, security and surveillance, and AR/VR.
Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley. The company is driven by a team of more than 100 visionary engineers, holds more than 50 international patents and is backed by leading international equity and corporate investors including 360 Capital Partners, European Investment Bank, iBionext, Intel Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sinovation, Supernova Invest, Will Semiconductor, Xiaomi.
Learn more: www.prophesee.ai
Prosperity7 Ventures is the diversified growth fund of Aramco Ventures, a subsidiary of Aramco, the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals company. The fund’s name derives from “Prosperity Well,” the seventh oil well drilled in Saudi Arabia and the first to strike commercial oil, paving the way to prosperity. Bringing forward this pioneering history, Prosperity7 invests globally with a long-term view in breakthrough technologies and transformational business models that bring prosperity and positive impacts on a vast scale.
Official Website: www.prosperity7vc.com
Imaging and Machine Vision Europe invited us and our Inventors Community partner Cambridge Consultants for an exclusive webinar.
In this webinar, Josh Gibson, senior physicist at Cambridge Consultants, presents a device they developed that automates sterility testing of cell therapy treatment using Prophesee’s event-based sensor. The PureSentry device is able to detect contamination in cell therapy batches in real time, compared to having to run a sterility test requiring a 7 to 14 day incubation period.
Meanwhile, Luca Verre gives an overview of Prophesee Metavision technology and its many applications.
Josh Gibson
Senior physicist, Physics and Sensors
Cambridge Consultants
Josh Gibson (MPhys) is a senior physicist with a passion for developing technologies which pair physics with biology. With a background in optics, microfluidics and data analysis, Josh has prototyped diagnostic hardware, patented process validation equipment for cell therapy manufacture and developed an innovative optical system for DNA analysis.
Luca Verre
Co-founder & CEO
Prophesee
Luca Verre holds a double first-class MSc in Physics, Electronic and Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and Ecole Centrale and an MBA from INSEAD.
Luca has extensive international management experience and a background in the automotive and electronics industries. His experience includes project and product management, marketing and business development roles at Schneider Electric. Prior to Schneider Electric, Luca worked as an engineer with Toyota and Altis Semiconductor as well as a Research Assistant in Photonics at the Imperial College of London.
Data Streams with high density meaningful information for low cost, low power, real-time machine learning
Edge detection done in the Prophesee sensor itself leads to fast processing time & lower computational power requirement
Standard lab light sources can be used intead of high power ones avoiding photo bleaching and potential damage to cells
Detection and analysis of the cartwheeling motion of the e.coli at high speeds
The event based camera easily interfaces with the microscope
Significantly inexpensive compared to conventional specialized techniques such as high frame rate cameras
We were very impressed that we could see T cells which are mostly water and typically quite hard to see under a normal microscope and without using special imaging techniques and E. coli which are represented differently under optical systems.
For machine learning, you can see the black border around the T cells and in this way the Prophesee camera does a form of edge detection in hardware so we can pick up the edges of our T cells to really see the morphology of them.
“One of the really interesting things we see with the Prophesee camera which we have not seen with any imaging we have done with microsocopy here at Cambridge Consultants before is that you get the cartwheeling motion of the E.coli where they are rod shaped and as they flow through the chip at fairly high speeds, rather than travelling in a straight line they end up spinning around and you can see the rod rotation and that’s a nice way to tell apart the T cells and the E.coli that are flowing through.”?
Cambridge Consultants is one of the first case studies published in Prophesee Inventors Community.
Since 2014, a network of researchers, start-ups and companies have shown incredible imagination and innovation using Prophesee’s neuromorphic vision technologies.
This has created an Event-Based Vision ecosystem of inventors sharing their work and ideas. Their creativity with Prophesee’s technologies inspires us.
We are gathering them in Prophesee Inventors Community to inspire future inventors in turn, in the hope that, like these projects, they create something new together and reveal the invisible.
With new benchmarks in data efficiency, dynamic range, speed and power efficiency, we are successfully tackling major computer vision tasks that today pose severe challenges to conventional systems across many fields of application.
From counting objects at unprecedented speeds with?high accuracy, generating less data and without any motion blur for Industrial Automation, to tracking 3D edges and/or Fiducial markers for your AR/VR applications, discover all the possibilities with event-based vision.
Gel capsules falling from a vibratory feeder. ?They are counted at high-speed by a line scan camera.
Processing with line scan technology:
Gel capsules cannot be recognized as an object by the software in the transmitted light process and therefore cannot be counted.
One capsule can appear as two objects.
Transparent, yellow capsules are to be counted at high-speed falling from a vibrating chute. Previous image processing solutions with a line scan camera using the transmitted light method reached their limits.
The gel capsules could not be counted at high speeds due to the transparency of the capsules and the lack of contrast caused by the yellow color.
The line scan camera with integrated real-time computer was replaced by the revolutionary event camera. Event-based image sensors record changes in a scene instead of capturing test objects line by line.
This means that Event-based algorithms can track objects even at very high speeds. The PSM module included in Metavision? Intelligence Software Suite was used as a starting point and fine-tuned to reach this solution.
Processing with event-based technology: Gel capsules can easily be recognized and counted.
IMAGO’s Event-based camera counts moving objects at a throughput of 1,000 objects per second. The technology can be used to count a wide range of products, giving many industries a new competitive edge.
The processing of the data takes place in the smart camera itself. There is no longer a need for expensive high-performance computers for ultrafast counting.
Would you like to learn more about the Event-based camera, or do you have a specific application? The experienced IMAGO team together with the sensor specialists from Prophesee will be happy to advise you.?
IMAGO Technologies is a leading manufacturer of intelligent cameras, vision sensors and special computers for automated image processing. IMAGO designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes image processing systems in Friedberg, Germany, for customers worldwide in industrial inspection, pharmaceutical, engineering industry, and soon also for your application? For almost 3 decades, IMAGO has been offering trendsetting solutions with great innovative power serving the individual needs of customers.
The product portfolio includes intelligent line, area, and Event-based cameras, deep learning image processing computers as well as embedded multicore ARM, i-Core, and GPGPU computers, each with real-time IO, Linux, or Windows operating systems. IMAGO also supports its customers in the areas of engineer-ing and software development. For more information visit www.imago-technologies.com.
Laguna Hills, Calif. – June 14, 2022 – BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of neuromorphic AI IP, and Prophesee, the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems, today announced a technology partnership that delivers next-generation platforms for OEMs looking to integrate event-based vision systems with high levels of AI performance coupled with ultra-low power technologies.
Inspired by human vision, Prophesee’s technology uses a patented sensor design and AI algorithms that mimic the eye and brain to reveal what was invisible until now using standard frame-based technology. Prophesee’s computer vision systems open new potential in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, security and surveillance, and AR/VR.
BrainChip’s first-to-market neuromorphic processor, Akida, mimics the human brain to analyze only essential sensor inputs at the point of acquisition, processing data with unparalleled efficiency, precision, and economy of energy. Keeping AI/ML local to the chip, independent of the cloud, also dramatically reduces latency.
“We’ve successfully ported the data from Prophesee’s neuromorphic-based camera sensor to process inference on Akida with impressive performance,” said Anil Mankar, Co-Founder and CDO of BrainChip. “This combination of intelligent vision sensors with Akida’s ability to process data with unparalleled efficiency, precision and economy of energy at the point of acquisition truly advances state-of-the-art AI enablement and offers manufacturers a ready-to-implement solution.”
“By combining our Metavision solution with Akida-based IP, we are better able to deliver a complete high-performance and ultra-low power solution to OEMs looking to leverage edge-based visual technologies as part of their product offerings, said Luca Verre, CEO and co-founder of Prophesee.”
For additional information about the BrainChip/Prophesee partnership contact sales@brainchip.com.
“We’ve successfully ported the data from Prophesee’s neuromorphic-based camera sensor to process inference on Akida with impressive performance,” said Anil Mankar, Co-Founder and CDO of BrainChip. “This combination of intelligent vision sensors with Akida’s ability to process data with unparalleled efficiency, precision and economy of energy at the point of acquisition truly advances state-of-the-art AI enablement and offers manufacturers a ready-to-implement solution.”
“By combining our Metavision solution with Akida-based IP, we are better able to deliver a complete high-performance and ultra-low power solution to OEMs looking to leverage edge-based visual technologies as part of their product offerings, said Luca Verre, CEO and co-founder of Prophesee.”
BrainChip is the worldwide leader in edge AI on-chip processing and learning. The company’s first-to-market neuromorphic processor, AkidaTM, mimics the human brain to analyze only essential sensor inputs at the point of acquisition, processing data with unparalleled efficiency, precision, and economy of energy. Keeping machine learning local to the chip, independent of the cloud, also dramatically reduces latency while improving privacy and data security. In enabling effective edge compute to be universally deployable across real world applications such as connected cars, consumer electronics, and industrial IoT, BrainChip is proving that on-chip AI, close to the sensor, is the future, for its customers’ products, as well as the planet.
Explore the benefits of Essential AI at www.brainchip.com.?
For additional information about the BrainChip/Prophesee partnership, contact sales@brainchip.com.
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Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems.
The company developed a breakthrough Event-based Vision approach to machine vision. This new vision category allows for significant reductions of power, latency and data processing requirements to reveal what was invisible to traditional frame-based sensors until now. Prophesee’s patented Metavision? sensors and algorithms mimic how the human eye and brain work to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, security and surveillance, and AR/VR.
Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley. The company is driven by a team of more than 100 visionary engineers, holds more than 50 international patents and is backed by leading international equity and corporate investors including 360 Capital Partners, European Investment Bank, iBionext, Intel Capital, Robert Bosch Ventures, Sinovation, Supernova Invest, Will Semiconductor, Xiaomi.
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