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Intel is acquiring computer vision startup Movidius for an undisclosed sum in order to bolster its RealSense gesture-sensing platform:
Today, [Intel] announced that it is acquiring the computer vision startup behind Google's Project Tango 3D-sensor tech, Movidius.
In a blog post, Movidius CEO Remi El-Ouazzane announced that his startup will continue in its goal of giving "the power of sight to machines" as it works with Intel's RealSense technology. Movidius has seen a great deal of interest in its radically low-powered computer vision chipset, signing deals with major device makers, including Google, Lenovo and DJI.
[...] "We're on the cusp of big breakthroughs in artificial intelligence," wrote El-Ouazzane. "In the years ahead, we'll see new types of autonomous machines with more advanced capabilities as we make progress on one of the most difficult challenges of AI: getting our devices not just to see, but also to think."
The company's Myriad 2 family of Vision Processor Units are being used at Lenovo to build the company's next generation of virtual reality products while Google struck a deal with the company to deploy its neural computation engine on the platform to push the machine learning power of mobile devices.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Thursday September 08 2016, @09:41AM
My car, my phone, other's phone's, Siri, the automated phone lines for railways and cinemas.
They all have the same problem.
Simple commands like "Call X" where X is a name fail miserably. I don't have an unusual voice, I don't have a speech impediment, I'm not in a noisy atmosphere. But even if I was, I'd expect it to work if you want to claim it's anywhere near a human recognition level.
Honestly, shall I try it? Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini phone, Google Translate will accept any sentence (not looking for structure in the detected English) and then try to translate it to a foreign language as a second step (which we shall ignore, as my Italian girlfriend says that it's absolutely laughable and not even good enough for a round-the-table-with-family conversation).
"I'm going to have breakfast in a minute"
"breakfast mini".
Best I could achieve in three attempts and it missed out the first four words entirely, two more in the middle, got one wrong, and could not make a coherent question or sentence worth translating (though it tried to).