Future and Emerging Technologies

Intelligent Vision Sensor The world's first image sensor with built-in AI comes out. This is the heavy news from Sony recently: Announced that two intelligent vision sensors will be released soon that is IMX500 and IMX501. They integrate a logical processor and memory, so each module can work as a microcomputer. At present, this sensor can capture still images with 12 million pixels and supports 4K @ 60fps video shooting. The shipment time of IMX500 and IMX501 is April and June this year, respectively, and the after-tax prices are 10,000 yen (approximately 93.02 US dollars) and 20,000 yen (approximately US dollars). The new sensor has the following characteristics: The stacked structure consisting of a pixel chip and a logic chip is equipped with an image sensor with AI image analysis and processing functions on the logic chip. The signal acquired by the pixel chip is processed by the AI ​​on the sensor without the need for a high-performance processor or external storage, which ca...

Thunderspy PoC demo 1: Unlocking Windows PC in 5 minutes In Hollywood movies, no matter how high the level of computer encryption is, a hacker can copy everything on your computer in just a few minutes, which seems unrealistic. If my computer has set a complex system password, is in a locked state, BIOS encryption, hard disk full disk encryption, under such a high-security level, can hackers easily steal my files? It is indeed possible now! Because of a vulnerability called Thunderspy. It is on the Thunderbolt interface that is equipped on high-end computers. We generally call it "Thunderbolt", and Apple officially calls it "Thunderbolt". Ruytenberg, a security researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, discovered that all computers with a lightning interface have this vulnerability, and it is a hardware-level vulnerability that can be broken by only a few hundred dollars in equipment. Once you leave your computer for a few minutes, hac...

Magic becomes reality, cool, and practical. Not only did he jump out of a cell phone directly from the paper, but he also threw it directly into the computer to form a virtual page. Now, no need to envy the wizard, everyone can "throw" things around into the computer, and a mobile phone can do it! This is the latest AR black technology from the 34-year-old French designer Cyril Diagne that is AR Cut & P aste, copy and paste the things around you to the computer with "one key", and the entire completion time is less than 10s. Faster than Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V!  For example , take a mobile phone and scan the pictures of the model on the book, and then point the mobile phone at the computer screen, and the model is copied to the computer instantly . The characters in the book are air copied and pasted. Even the hair of this dark-haired brother can be recognized, which is amazing. Of course, handwritten notes can also be copied and pasted into the computer. The aut...

How many steps does it take to draw animation and let it shoot a close-up of "dunning"?Just put a skeleton on Rick and drag the exported SVG file into the browser, and you are all done. Just like this, if you move towards the camera, Rick moves just like this.This TensorFlow.js project is called Pose Animator. For example, a  lady dance and her illustrations are perfectly integrated. Implementation details So, how do the 2D images  move? The author introduces that Pose Animator is based on the recognition results of the two TensorFlow.js models of PoseNet and FaceMesh to perform real-time animation on 2D vector graphics and their skeletons. Among them, borrow the idea of skeleton animation in computer graphics and apply it to vector characters. In skeletal animation, a character consists of two parts. One is the skin used to draw the model, and the other is the key to control the movement of the skeleton. In Pose Animator, the skin is defined by the 2D vector path in the inp...

First, a 3D dog head cartoon character selected: Draw a skeleton on it: You can move: In the same way, the 3D boy can also be moved: Let the 3D tall big girl move: Let 3D cats live and jump: In short, everything should be just a static 3D character model. Whether it is a human being or an animal, or a cartoon creative character that does not exist in nature, you can see the bones from the static to the dynamic. Even the shadow works very well!  I only know boneless chicken and boneless duck's paw. All this is done automatically by an AI called RigNet . As long as the character's 3D dynamic shape is designed, it can automatically predict the character's skeleton, estimate the weight of the skin outside the skeleton, and generate an image of the character's movement. This is much more convenient than manual animation. If it can be used in 3D animation or 3D game production, there is no need to worry about dragging or ticket jumping in the...

In recent years, from the permafrost that thawed in Siberia, to the ice deep in Antarctica, scientists have discovered some mysterious prehistoric giant viruses. Thousands of years after being locked in ice and frozen in time capsules, they have revived and rejuvenated because of the opportunities brought about by climate warming. The giant virus found in Siberia, Russia, even after being frozen in permafrost for 30,000 years, still has the ability to infect. So how do these viruses infect the host, will humans be infected? A team of scientists from Michigan State University in the United States conducted a study on this and found the environmental conditions in which the virus stargate was opened. The size of the giant virus exceeds 300 nanometers, while common viruses, such as the rhinovirus that causes the common cold, are only about 30 nanometers. The giant virus shell is durable and able to withstand harsh environmental conditions, protecting the virus genome inside. In ...

Friends who often surf the Internet must know that public transport in many cities has begun to gradually accept guide dogs. A set of widely circulated data is that as of 2017, the number of domestic guide dogs was only 116, which is rarer than giant pandas, while the number of blind people who need guide dog services is about 8 million. A series of high difficulties and high costs, such as breeding, training, internships, and employment, determine that the guide dog is a "luxury product" for the blind. Each guide dog costs between 120,000 and 150,000 yuan, and its life span is only a dozen years. Even if it is fortunate to have one, when it is retired, how should the visually impaired go out? This is probably a hot search. After fading away, it is still a topic worthy of continuous consideration and improvement by a civilized society. Recently, a blind man in Turkey, Kürşat Ceylan, based on Arm's latest processor and NPU, created an AI blind stick that may be a...