AI-powered camera to process images

SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers at Stanford University have created a new artificial intelligence-powered camera system capable of processing images in a more efficient way, which can be used in self-driving vehicles or security cameras. The breakthrough was published in the science journal, Nature, on Aug 17.

A research team led by Gordon Wetzstein, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, combined two types of computers into a hybrid optical-electrical computer designed specifically for image analysis.

The AI-powered camera system includes an optical computer in the first layer, which does not perform digital computing that requires power-intensive mathematical algorithms, while the second layer is a traditional digital electronic computer.