Hi Fmf,From the Feb/Mar 2023 issue of Imaging and Machine Vision Europe.
Get a mention on the Prophesee partnership in the article which is a general discussion with Verre as well.
Yes, saw as a demonstrator but with desire for commercial relationship possibly too. Makes sense when read first paragraph.
Why you will be seeing much more from event cameras | Imaging and Machine Vision Europe
Advances in sensors that capture images like real eyes, plus in the software and hardware to process them, are bringing a paradigm shift in imaging, finds Andrei Mihaiwww.imveurope.com
Neuromorphic computing progress
However, while neuromorphic cameras
mimic the human eye, the processing chipsthey work with are far from mimicking the human brain. Most neuromorphic computing, including work on event camera computing, is carried out using deep learning algorithms that
perform processing on CPUs of GPUs,
which are not optimised for
neuromorphic processing.
This is where new chips such as Intel’s Loihi 2 (a neuromorphic research chip) and Lava (an open-source software framework) come in.“Our second-generation chip greatly improves the speed, programmability, and capacity of neuromorphic processing, broadening its usages in power and latency-constrained intelligent computinga pplications,” says Mike Davies, Director ofIntel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab.
BrainChip, a neuromorphic computing
IP vendor, also partnered with Prophesee to deliver event-based vision systems with integrated low-power technology coupled with high AI performance.
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Smartphones are one field where
event cameras may make an unexpected
entrance, but Verre says this is just the tip
of the iceberg. He is looking forward to a
paradigm shift and is most excited about all the applications that will soon pop up forevent cameras – some of which we probablycannot yet envision.
“I see these technologies and new tech
sensing modalities as a new paradigm that will create a new standard in the market. And in serving many, many applications, so we will see more event-based cameras all around us. This is so exciting.”
There are a couple of passages from the article which are intriguing.
This sentence is not attributed to Luca verre, and it does not quite align with his recent reply to @chapman89 which suggested that the relationship between Prophesee and Brainchip was quite preliminary ...
"BrainChip, a neuromorphic computing IP vendor, also partnered with Prophesee to deliver event-based vision systems with integrated low-power technology coupled with high AI performance."
... which almost reads as if there were a commercial product, or at least an engineering test product.
I doubt that there is an SoC with Akida and the Prophesee DVS, but separate chips could have been connected for testing. I would guess that an SoC would perform better than two separate chips.
Then the following paragraph is not shy about mentioning Loihi and Loihi2 in relation to research and development, but is coy about naming the "other neuromorphic chips ... emerging, allowing quick learning and training ... even with a small dataset".
Ongoing research is looking at ways to use neuromorphic neural networks to integrate chips and event cameras for autonomous cars. Since many of these applications use the Loihi chip, newer generations, such as Loihi 2, should speed development. Other neuromorphic chips are also emerging, allowing quick learning and training of the algorithm even with a small dataset. Specialised SNN algorithms operating on neuromorphic chips can further help edge processing and general computing in event vision.
Clearly Akida fits the description of the nameless chip.
