USC ISI Research Shows a Promising Future for Animal-like Computer Vision – USC Viterbi
When you pull out your smartphone to take a picture of a magical sunset or a loved one’s smile, your camera freezes what you see in a moment in time forever. Even though a camera lens can capture potent colors, textures, and remarkable details in one click, it will always fall short to the remarkable processing performance of a human eye.
Humans and animals have the ability to not only see, but to perceive. Our eyes–or rather our retinae–are processing information about our surroundings in real-time, and sending signals back to our brain. Through cameras, robots are able to capture events happening around them like us, but they haven’t been able to perceive like we do–until now. The latest ISI research is now available on biorxiv, IRIS: Integrated Retinal Functionality in Image Sensorsbridges this gap and makes retina-inspired computer vision a tangible reality.
The IRIS (Integrated Retinal