GSI Technology Takes Home First Prize in MAFAT Radar Challenge
January 06 2021 - 8:30AM
GSI Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIT), a leading provider of
high-performance memory solutions for the networking,
telecommunications and military markets, and developer of the
Gemini® Associative Processing Unit (APU) for artificial
intelligence, today announced that it has been awarded first
prize in the MAFAT Radar Challenge.
GSI Technology was awarded the $25,000 Grand Prize after passing
all the competition’s formal and technical eligibility tests. The
participants’ challenge consisted of distinguishing between humans
and animals in radar signal segments. The challenge provided a rare
glimpse of radar signals and its challenges. GSI Technology
overcame this challenge through visualization and data manipulation
using classic CNN (convolutional neural network) models. For more
insights on the challenge, read GSI Technology’s blog post
here.
“We are thrilled to be awarded first prize in this very exciting
competition, and we would like to thank the MAFAT team for the
well-structured material and informative resources they provided to
the contestants,” said Lee-Lean Shu, GSI Technology's Chairman and
CEO. “I’d also like to acknowledge the leadership of Daphna Idelson
and the GSI team throughout this challenge. This project offered a
valuable chance to work with radar signals and their unique
challenges—and proved that the GSI team can tackle these challenges
with our highly adaptable APU software. This award highlights our
chip design capabilities and our strength in software solutions for
complex, novel applications. We look forward to participating in
the next MAFAT Challenge.”
This year’s MAFAT Radar Challenge focused on the classification
of living, non-rigid objects detected by doppler-pulse radar
systems. This was the second competition in the MAFAT Challenge
series in the field of data science sponsored by the Israeli
Ministry of Defense Directorate of Defense Research and
Development. The competition was fully open to the academic and
industry sectors, as well as to the general public. This effort
highlights the value of AI in helping glean intelligence from basic
sensor input, which normally is used to detect distance of objects
being used to classify the objects themselves.
The competition hosted more than 1,000 registered participants
and received more than 4,300 submissions. During the competition,
participants received a training data set containing 6,656 radar
segments, labeled as either animals or humans, in addition to a
supportive (auxiliary) data set containing 49,071 segments.
Participants trained their machine learning predictive models based
on the training data, and were asked to make predictions for this
binary classification task on untagged data (the test set).
ABOUT GSI TECHNOLOGY
Founded in 1995, GSI Technology, Inc. is a leading provider of
SRAM semiconductor memory solutions. GSI's newest products leverage
its market-leading SRAM technology. The Company recently launched
radiation-hardened memory products for extreme environments and the
Gemini® APU, a memory-centric associative processing unit designed
to deliver performance advantages for diverse AI applications. The
Gemini APU's architecture features parallel data processing with
two million-bit processors per chip. The massive in-memory
processing reduces computation time from minutes to milliseconds,
even nanoseconds, while significantly reducing power consumption in
a scalable format. Gemini excels at large (billion item) database
search applications like facial recognition, drug discovery,
Elasticsearch, and object detection. Gemini is ideal for edge
applications with a smaller footprint and lower power consumption,
where rapid, accurate responses are critical. Headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California, GSI Technology has 172 employees, 114
engineers, and over 90 granted patents. For more information on the
company and our products, please visit our website at
www.gsitechnology.com.
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