Face++ recently announced the completion of the C round of $460 million in financing, conversion into renminbi more than 3 billion yuan. This is the current global artificial intelligence (AI) company single round of financing the highest once. is also following the May figure Science and technology RMB 380 million yuan C round of financing, July commercial soup technology 410 million U.S. dollars B-round financing, another computer vision field start-up companies large-sum financing. Science and Technology announced the completion of the C round of 460 million U.S. dollars financing the money behind the party is China's state-owned Capital investment Fund (VC), Ant Gold Clothing, Foxconn and other strategic investors. Prior to the round of financing, the vision technology, founded in 2011, was awarded the million-dollar a-round investment in innovative factories in 2013; 2015 received the B-round financing from the Innovation Factory, Qiming Ventures; 2016, won the Silver International, Foxconn Group's B-plus financing. The financing, since May this year, the mainland focused on computer vision, AI company, less than half a year has accumulated financing more than 6 billion yuan. Inchi, CEO of Science and Technology, said that the party is the VC, because the vast number of business with the national strategy, hope to be supported; Ant Gold Clothing in the financial innovation, Foxconn especially in the hardware area has a very deep ecological chain, including mobile phones, sensors and so on. Tang Wenbin, a CTO at the Technology Forum on embedded Artificial Intelligence, said vision is an algorithm as the core, the AI as the core of the product company, is essentially an AI application company, the main focus of the three directions: financial security, urban brain, mobile phone intelligence, will continue to increase investment, need to do deep, The vertical subdivision area requires financial support. Tang Wenbin said that the focus of the application of the core focus on three aspects, the first is the financial security real-name certification. Vision is a human face recognition started, today the mainland needs to do real-name authentication scene, most need to go offline, to the counter face-to-face communication, need to show identity card, and then through see I go to verify. But this scene is very inefficient, so the view will be to move this scene to the online real-name certification, such as Alipay, E-driver, such as real-name identity certification. Second, in the smart city of Safe city brain security scene, through the camera way to perceive more visual information, by identifying information to add more applications. For example, the identification of fugitives under the public security scene, assisting the public security system to catch more than 3,000 fugitives; In addition to the smartphone intelligent terminal, the AI algorithm is implanted into the terminal, such as the iphone X, millet phone's face authentication function. This aspect requires a crawl identification speed of milliseconds, or even dozens of milliseconds. Tang Wenbin said that at present, the mobile phone terminal camera has a very strong demand, is directly more calculation on the front of the camera, directly on the machine from the video to do the detection can be carried out, do not have to send the original video back. This makes face recognition only need to upload more valuable information to reduce the bandwidth of transmission, reduce the computation of the back-end deployment server. and reduce the pressure of cloud computing, and in the front can provide a very fast response. For example, he recently launched a network structure called shufflenet, which is faster than Google's. By shufflenet through algorithmic innovation, including a deep integration with Qualcomm (QUALCOMM), MediaTek's mobile chips, it provides very fast computing power and makes the face recognition experience on the phone more powerful.
