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It is really quite simple.Apologies for yet again bringing this up, but I still can't get my head around who is Prophesee is partnering with to get their -blur free- camera ready for inclusion within Snapdragon at Qualcomm. Who ever it is has a multi year contract with Qualcomm. I know we can do this with one hand tied behind my back, but the general feeling here is no, not us.
Please please put me out of my misery once and for all.
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AKIDA is SNN. Prophesee produces spikes so they just plug in to each other and work.
When you travel to the UK from Australia and you want to recharge your laptop you need a converter which you plug into the wall socket then plug in your laptop. This allows you to then charge your laptop. The extra wires and bits and pieces in this converter adds time (latency)to how long the power takes to get from the wall socket to your lap top and also adds resistance which uses up some of the charge travelling from the socket to your laptop. Your laptop will still charge up and work.
Should add if you leave it on charging for a while you will notice the converter becomes warm so you are losing energy through heat.
So Prophesee if it is not connected to a natively spiking processor like AKIDA sends out its spikes just the same but to be used by Qualcomm it needs to convert the spikes into something else so it’s processor can understand and process the information in the original spikes.
In the process of conversion there is some loss of energy/information so the converted spikes produce suboptimal information for Qualcomm to process.
It still works but not as well as it might if it did not have to convert the spikes first before they were processed.
In the camera on your mobile for taking happy snaps this is probably not a particular issue however the extra power draw needed to convert the spikes so they can be processed and the extra power used by a neuromorphic processor that does not use SNN could be significant and reduce battery life to such an extent that the selfie generation might get annoyed an choose an iPhone.
There is also the question of extra heat and the actual cost of the electronics involved.
Where suboptimal performance of Prophesee’s vision sensor would not be acceptable would be in tracking hypersonic missiles and planes where you do not want to waste a single spike or milli second. Even counting pills if complete accuracy is required would necessitate every spike being accounted for.
Hope this helps.
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA
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