Prophesee Announces Collaboration with Qualcomm to Optimize Neuromorphic Vision Technologies For the Next Generation of Smartphones, Unlocking a New Image Quality Paradigm for Photography and Video
Companies agree on a multi-year collaboration to enable native compatibility between Prophesee’s Event-Based Metavision® Sensors & Software and premium Snapdragon® mobile platforms.
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Companies agree on a multi-year collaboration to enable native compatibility between Prophesee’s Event-Based Metavision® Sensors & Software and premium Snapdragon® mobile platforms.
Highlights
- The world is neither raster-based nor frame-based. Inspired by the human eye, Prophesee Event-Based sensors repair motion blur and other image quality artefacts caused by conventional sensors, especially in high dynamic scenes and low lightconditions bringing Photography and Video closer to our true experiences.
- Collaborating with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of premium mobile technologies, to help accelerate mobile industry adoption of Prophesee’s solutions.
- Companies join forces to optimize Prophesee’s neuromorphic Event-Based Metavision Sensors and software for use with the premium Snapdragon mobile platforms. Development kits expected to be available from Prophesee this year.
PARIS, February 27, 2023 – Prophesee today announced a
collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. that will optimize Prophesee’s Event-based Metavision sensors for use with premium
Snapdragon® mobile platforms to bring the
speed,
efficiency, and
quality of
neuromorphic-enabled vision to
mobile devices.
The technical and business collaboration will provide mobile device developers a
fast and efficient way to leverage the
Prophesee sensor’s ability to
dramatically improve camera performance, particularly in
fast-moving dynamic scenes (e.g. sport scenes) and in
low light, through its breakthrough
event-based continuous and asynchronous pixel sensing approach. Prophesee is working on a
development kit to support the
integration of the Metavision sensor technology for use with devices that contain next generation
Snapdragon platforms.
Video 2 – Judd Heape, VP, Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, introducing Prophesee Metavision technologies during Snapdragon Summit.
How it works
Prophesee’s breakthrough sensors add a
new sensing dimension to mobile photography. They change the paradigm in traditional image capture by
focusing only on changes in a scene, pixel by pixel, continuously, at
extreme speeds.
Each pixel in the Metavision sensor
embeds a logic core, enabling it to
act as a neuron.
They each
activate themselves intelligently and asynchronouslydepending on the amount of photons they sense. A pixel activating itself is called an event. In essence,
events are driven by the scene’s dynamics, not an arbitrary clock anymore, so the acquisition speed always matches the actual scene dynamics.
High-performance event-based deblurring is achieved by
synchronizing a frame-based and Prophesee’s event-based sensor. The system then fills the gaps between and inside the frames with microsecond events to algorithmically
extract pure motion information and repair motion blur.
Availability
A development kit featuring compatibility with Prophesee sensor technologies is expected to be
available this year.