So that the computer can understand the world

Summary: Standing in the tuyere, pigs can fly up. But the key is where will the next tuyere be? Different people certainly have different views, Bill Gates answers: The next big event in the IT World is computer vision (computer vision) and deep learning (deep

Standing in the tuyere, pigs can fly. But the key is where will the next tuyere be? Different people must have different views, Bill Gates answers: The next big event in the IT world is the combination of computer vision (computer vision) and deep learning (deep learning). When he visited Beijing in mid-June this year, the first venture he visited was also a computer vision company.

The company, Glitch, has just won a tens of millions of dollar a round of funding from Sequoia this June. Recently, we also and glitch deep pupil of the founder of what Bo Chat under computer vision and glitch Deep pupil is doing things. I also sorted out the interesting points.

So that the computer can understand the world

Thousands of years ago, human beings had invented the word; hundreds of years ago, mankind had made sound, and until recent decades, human beings had invented dynamic pictures, that is, video. Video carries a richer amount of information than text or sound. To fully extract, "read" The amount of information in the video, even for people, is not an easy task. Imagine how much information we would lose when we were playing mobile phones to watch TV? Although the machine lacks the brain, does not think, but compares with the person, also has the computational ability strong superiority. If we can teach computers to understand the world, will there be a qualitative change?

How can we teach computers to see the world? More than 10 years ago, there was a special debate in academia. At the beginning of this century, many experts decided that with the existing camera, coupled with a powerful algorithm, can establish a perfect computer vision mechanism. At that time, there were others who did not see it, and Glitch, the founder of Zhao, who was still studying at Brown University, was one of them. Zhao They feel that we see the world is three-dimensional, and the traditional computer vision mechanism used is two-dimensional camera, can not restore the real situation of the world, on this basis to complete the visual analysis, will be greatly reduced. This idea, at that time seemed deviant, more than 10 years later, the industry gradually recognized.

Be the first company to commercialize computer vision

In fact, teaching machines to understand the world, many years ago, some people are doing, but using the "Camera + Strong algorithm" theoretical framework. Google, Baidu is doing, but the difference is that they want to do is search, social. Glitch Deep pupil wants to commercialize computer vision. They want to "be the first company to commercialize computer vision," he said.

Mention glitch deep pupil or open their official website, many people estimate will think this is a smart security camera company. This positioning is just a symptom, in fact, more accurately described may be "computer vision and Artificial intelligence", they want to let the computer like human initiative to obtain visual information and accurate real-time analysis. Security "Camera" is just a commercial specific performance.

As we all know, security is a big market, how big is this market? Let's go to the simple column two points: (1) Last year, China's smartphone sales were 320 billion, while security equipment sales reached 400 billion; (2) the largest company in Hangzhou is Ali, the second company is who, is to do security cameras, Hai Kang Wei, has been listed in Shenzhen, Market capitalisation was close to ZTE's twice-fold last year.

And such a big market, but there are two problems so far there is no way to solve, one is invisible, one is not found. First to see the problem: a public place like the size of the airport, the number of cameras can reach tens of thousands of, and at the same time the security personnel responsible for monitoring video is probably only a few people; The video surveillance domain often uses the video screen carousel mechanism, each how often automatically toggles the screen to display the surveillance video screen; Those that really have the information value of the picture are seen, the chance to notice is very small.

It is said that 50% of the world's hard disk is used to store surveillance video, it is conceivable that the number of surveillance video. Beijing Tian An door for example, the daily production of surveillance video data, carved into a disc stacked up, than the Eiffel Tower is still higher. It is no less difficult to find a picture in a 75% of the world's hard drives or a CD that is taller than the Eiffel Tower.

Write here, I guess you know glitch deep pupil security products can solve what problem. Glitch deep pupil through three-dimensional visual perception technology, to achieve accurate detection of characters, tracking, action posture (including violence, fall and other dangerous acts) and the character movement track (including Cross-border, retrograde, wandering and other suspicious trajectory) detection and analysis. On the basis of automatic scene and character detection, the security personnel are automatically provided with early warning signals, active reminders, reports of anomalies, and security personnel "see".

At the same time, glitch deep pupil through three-dimensional visual perception technology, abstract characters, from the non-time dimension of monitoring, tracking, search, truly "find".

This October, they will be their own set of security products for the pilot layout. The first pilots will be three of the four major lines. And the reason why will choose the bank, how to beat Fly Tell 36 Krypton, because they fancy the bank of security needs, as well as the bank security program can be replicated. The Bank is in addition to the Government, the largest security equipment buyers, but also willing to continuously increase the number of security products. Plus the domestic banking regulator will strictly regulate the interior layout of the bank, this duplication will be very high.

Let offline retail "electronic Business"

The rise of E-commerce, to the business "fine" operation of the important data support, the offline retail has a major impact. In the retail field, glitch deep pupil can also through three-dimensional visual perception technology, consumer action trajectory and behavior patterns of detection, tracking and search, accurate statistics in the set of hot spots within the flow of passengers, stay time, action track, consumer behavior, provide objective consumption behavior analysis data, To help traditional retail customers turn to data-driven management, improve the efficiency of business operations, online under the "electronic commerce."

In fact, in addition to ultra, retail stores, each year, there will be a large number of brands, spend a lot of money to find consulting companies to buy data and analysis reports. Online, consumers can easily open countless pages, browsing the cost of each item is very low, but online, users every browsing behavior, procurement behavior are cost. Therefore, glitch the data of their statistics is more valuable and meaningful.

What happens to our lives.

Surveillance cameras have been subtly integrated into all aspects of our lives, but in fact these security cameras play a very limited role. Although there are thousands of cameras, but riots, disturbances, often rely on the scene of people call the police. In the situation of "killing and robbing" which is not in the outnumbered of "the enemy strong and weak", the general public often becomes the innocent victim. Glitch deep pupil of the product added a very intimate function, waving hands automatic alarm. If you do not take into account the security personnel negligence, irresponsible, inaction and other factors, may play a certain role in protection. When such equipment is popularized, the future can play a very good role in deterring crime, which is the real social significance.

To extend the field of vision to public safety beyond personal safety, glitch deep pupil can provide more products and solutions on this basis. In the future, perhaps on the ground, police officers can bring smart glasses like Google Glass, real-time display of the monitoring center from the scene and position, the sky is flying with glitch deep pupil products of the UAV, real-time monitoring center according to the structure of video analysis, tracking suspicious characters, really do not have the road to escape.

Think of such a world, very safe, but whether shudder, our privacy? Any one to do image analysis of the company, estimates are not open to this problem, glitch deep pupil is the same. He said, what they do is the trend of research, will not go to accurate analysis of who it is. and security and privacy, the future of the public will certainly use their own way to vote.

Where does the hardware renaissance go?

And when I chat with him, I suddenly thought of a few days ago and Makeblock founder Jianjun chat about a problem, is the hardware revival in the end where to go. At that time Jianjun a very interesting point of view, the hardware revival is in fact there are two levels, one is like wearable devices such as the level of application layer, the other is like chip, technology, such as the basic layer level. Glitch Deep pupil, Connaught also Teng these we reported that the company, in fact, can be counted as the base layer of the company.

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They are also recently recruiting computer vision engineers, software and hardware engineers, BD, PR and executives, and interested children's shoes can be cast to the mailbox (hr@deepglint.com).