BrainChip and NVISO Partner on Human Behavioral Analytics in Automotive and Edge AI Devices
April 19 2022 - 6:00PM
Business Wire
BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the
world’s first commercial producer of neuromorphic AI IP and chips,
and nViso SA (NVISO), the leading human behavioral analytics AI
company, today announced a collaboration targeting battery-powered
applications in robotics and mobility/automotive to address the
need for high levels of AI performance with ultra-low power
technologies. The initial effort will include implementing NVISO’s
AI solutions for Social Robots and In-cabin Monitoring Systems on
BrainChip’s Akida™ processors.
Developers of automotive and consumer technologies are striving
for devices that better respond to human behavior—which requires
tools and applications to interpret human behavior captured from
cameras and sensors on devices. However, these environments can be
constrained by limited compute performance, power consumption, and
cloud connectivity lapses. Akida addresses these weaknesses with
high performance and ultra-low power (micro- to milliwatts) as well
as by performing AI/ML processing of vision/image, motion, and
sound data directly on devices, instead of in a remote cloud. Since
information is not sent off-device, user privacy and security are
also protected.
NVISO’s technology is uniquely able to analyze signals of human
behavior such as facial expressions, emotions, identity, head
poses, gaze, gestures, activities, and objects with which users
interact. In robotics and in-vehicle applications, human behavior
analytics detect the user’s emotional state to provide
personalized, adaptive, interactive, safe devices and systems. The
result of the collaboration between NVISO and BrainChip is expected
to enable more advanced, more capable, and more accurate AI on
consumer products.
“Our work with BrainChip will support AI’s demanding
power/cost/performance needs for OEMs, even at mass production and
scale, so they can benefit from faster and more efficient
development cycles,” said Tim Llewellynn, CEO of NVISO. “Ultra-low
power edge-based consumer processing is expected to deliver a more
intelligent and individualized user experience, and we believe
running our AI solutions for Social Robots and In-cabin Monitoring
Systems on Akida will provide a competitive edge for joint
customers demanding always-on features on low power budgets.”
“NVISO’s human behavioral analytics AI systems offer fascinating
possibilities in homes, cars, buildings, hospitals, and more, and
we’re enthusiastic about supporting these functions with
BrainChip’s processing performance and energy efficiency,” said
Sean Hehir, BrainChip CEO. “This is not only a collaboration
between two companies, it’s advancing the state of the art in AI
with platforms for edge AI devices to interpret human behavior,
improving product performance and user experience.”
BrainChip’s first-to-market neuromorphic processor, Akida,
mimics the human brain to analyze only essential sensor inputs at
the point of acquisition, processing data with unparalleled
efficiency, precision, and economy of energy. Keeping AI/ML local
to the chip, independent of the cloud, also dramatically reduces
latency while improving privacy and data security.
For additional information about the BrainChip, NVISO
partnership contact sales@brainchip.com.
About NVISO
NVISO is an Artificial Intelligence company founded in 2009 and
headquartered at the Innovation Park of the École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Its mission is to help
teach machines to understand people and their behavior to make
autonomous machines safe, secure, and personalized for humans. As
leader in human behavioral AI, it provides robust embedded software
solutions that can sense, comprehend, and act upon human behavior
in real-world environments deployed at the deep edge. It achieves
this through real-time perception and observation of people and
objects in contextual situations combined with the reasoning and
semantics of human behavior based on trusted scientific research.
NVISO’s technology is made accessible through ready-to-use AI
solutions addressing Smart Mobility and Smart Health and Living
applications (in-cabin monitoring systems, health assessments, and
companion robot sensing) with a key focus on the deep and extreme
edge with ultra-low power processing capabilities. With a singular
focus on how to apply the most advanced and robust technology to
industry and societal problems that matter, NVISO’s solutions help
advance human potential through more robust and rich human machine
interactions. ir.nviso.ai
About BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR:
BCHPY)
BrainChip is a global technology company that is producing a
groundbreaking neuromorphic processor that brings artificial
intelligence to the edge in a way that is beyond the capabilities
of other products. The chip is high performance, small, ultra-low
power and enables a wide array of edge capabilities that include
on-chip training, learning and inference. The event-based neural
network processor is inspired by the spiking nature of the human
brain and is implemented in an industry standard digital process.
By mimicking brain processing BrainChip has pioneered a processing
architecture, called Akida™, which is both scalable and flexible to
address the requirements in edge devices. At the edge, sensor
inputs are analyzed at the point of acquisition rather than through
transmission via the cloud to a data center. Akida is designed to
provide a complete ultra-low power and fast AI Edge Network for
vision, audio, olfactory and smart transducer applications. The
reduction in system latency provides faster response and a more
power efficient system that can reduce the large carbon footprint
of data centers.
Additional information is available at
https://www.brainchipinc.com
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