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A New Era Needs a New Architecture: The Tensilica Vision Q6 DSPBreakfast Bytes - Paul McLellanApr. 12, 2018 |
There is a trend for increasing sophistication in vision and in artificial intelligence (AI). There are many drivers of this, but two of the most important are the advanced capabilities of high-end smartphones and the demands of ADAS and autonomous driving.
For smartphones, face detection requires a mixture of vision and AI processing, and the requirements are increasing all the time. In particular, it needs to work under non-ideal conditions, when the face is turned to one side, wearing a hat, with the face partially obscured by a scarf, and so on. The cameras in smartphones are getting increasingly sophisticated, using multiple sensors to do things like high-dynamic range (HDR) imaging, hybrid zoom, image stabilization, and more.