Mouna left BrainChip in April 2016,
At the time, we had just announced the achievement of unsupervised learning and autonomous feature extraction for the SNAP (Spiking Neuron Adaptive Processor), the latter in cooperation with the Davis artificial retina (DVS event camera) from Inilabs.
https://brainchip.com/brainchip-announces-unsupervised-visual-learning-achieved/
BrainChip Announces: Unsupervised Visual Learning Achieved
ALISO VIEJO, CA — (Marketwired) — 02/23/16 —
BrainChip Holdings Limited (ASX: BRN),
developer of a revolutionary new Spiking Neuron Adaptive Processor (SNAP) technology that has the ability to learn autonomously, evolve and associate information just like the human brain, is pleased to report that it has achieved a further significant advancement of its artificial intelligence technology.
The R&D team in Southern California has completed the development of an Autonomous Visual
Feature Extraction system (AVFE), an advancement of the recently achieved and announced Autonomous Feature Extraction (AFE) system. The AVFE system was developed and interfaced with the DAVIS artificial retina purchased from its developer, Inilabs of Switzerland. DAVIS has been developed to represent data streams in the same way as BrainChip’s neural processor, SNAP.
Highlights
- Capable of processing 100 million visual events per second
- Learns and identifies patterns in the image stream within seconds — (Unsupervised Feature Learning)
- Potential applications include security cameras, collision avoidance systems in road vehicles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’s (UAV’S), anomaly detection, and medical imaging
- AVFE is now commercially available
- Discussions with potential licensees for AVFE are progressing
AVFE is the process of extracting informative characteristics from an image. The system initially has no knowledge of the contents of an input stream. The system learns autonomously by repetition and intensity, and starts to find patterns in the image stream. BrainChip’s SNAP learns to recognize features within a few seconds, just like a human would when looking at a scene. This image stream can originate from any source, such as an image sensor like the DAVIS artificial retina, but also from other sources that are outside of human perception such as radar or ultrasound images.
Then came:
Spikenet 20160630
JAST 201700320
BrainChip Studio facial recognition software 20170719
BrainChip Accelerator 201710 (hardware accelerator for Studio)
Akida 20180910.
So the putative Mata Hari did not have access to the
creme de la creme or the secret sauce.