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1. Forge ahead in the wave of AI, Shanghai to create a global eco-AI model;
At the same time, the Provisional Harbor Authority promulgated the framework of the "Action Plan for Deep Integration and Development of Artificial Intelligence and Real Economy in Lingang Area." The "Plan" will focus on the strategy Positioning and supporting the breakthrough of key technologies of artificial intelligence, promoting the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence in Lingang area and real economy, stimulating new impetus for the innovation and development of various industries and creating a new pattern of integration of producer services.
At the same time, a group of landmark enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence held a signing ceremony, including Space 8 Homes, Horizon, Tree Roots Link, Baidu Innovation Center, etc. Among them, Space 8 Institute focused on 'smart energy, intelligent equipment, Commerce and trade, comprehensive service platform 'four major business areas, to promote efforts to solve the key issues restricting the development of the industry.
Among them, the horizon is committed to the development of high-performance embedded artificial intelligence processor chip, smart city (smart security) business settled in Lingang, to provide one complete hardware and software industry solutions; Tree root by Sany Group investment incubation, the use of industrial knowledge Experience has accumulated, create independent intellectual property rights of the 'root cloud' industrial Internet platform, connecting 400,000 high-value equipment, solutions covering 42 industries, has developed into one of the three major industrial Internet platform; National Union will wisdom Alliance Unite Baidu to promote Baidu Innovation Center landing Lingang, relying on Baidu's brand, technology and other resources to help the 'Internet + innovation and entrepreneurship + industrial upgrading' development; space eight homes focused on 'smart energy, smart equipment, Zhi-lian commerce, integrated services Platform 'four major business areas, to promote efforts to solve the key issues restricting the development of the industry.
At present, Lingang has gathered a number of artificial intelligence technology research and development platforms and benchmarking companies with the Chinese Academy of Sciences - Brain Brain Engineering, China University of Posts and Telecommunications, Cambrian, etc. Combined with the contracted enterprises, the artificial intelligence industry in Lingang Region has covered the hardware and algorithms , Application and many other important links for the future development of the industry has laid a good foundation.
Shanghai another important city for the development of emerging industries Songjiang District in the field of artificial intelligence investment is also quite positive work.Recently Songjiang District Investment Promotion Service Center, Dongjing Town People's Government and Huaxiaxin, Shanghai zero plus one investment management company signed A number of cooperation agreements will provide in-depth cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence and promote the development of artificial intelligence-related industries in Songjiang and Shanghai and the cultivation of industrial clusters.
Currently Songjiang G60 Corridor Dongjing artificial intelligence industry base has gathered more than 80 artificial intelligence-related businesses last October, the base was identified as the Ministry of Science and Technology Torch Center as a characteristic industrial base.
These are some epitomes of Shanghai's pace of development in the artificial intelligence industry since November 2017. Since the implementation of the new generation of artificial intelligence in Shanghai in November 2017, many districts, counties and development zones have responded positively and accelerated the deployment of artificial intelligence-related industries. The implementation plan of the project focused on creating 6 artificial intelligence innovative demonstration zones, forming 60 deep application scenarios and building more than 100 demonstration projects; promoting the deepening of artificial intelligence in such fields as smart government affairs, smart transportation, smart healthcare, smart health and retirement care Applications and local areas to form a demonstration effect.Objectives By 2020, the scale of key artificial intelligence industry in Shanghai will surpass 100 billion; by 2030, the overall level of development of artificial intelligence in Shanghai will enter the advanced international ranks, and the artificial intelligence development altitude with global influence will be initially established, And laid a solid foundation for a remarkable global city.It is proposed that a new generation of artificial intelligence development system with application-driven, technology-leading, industry-coordinated and ecological communion should be built with enterprises as the main body, talent as the lead and institutional support as the support , Vigorously cultivate an open, inclusive and diverse innovation and entrepreneurship State, city integrated environment to optimize and enhance the soft power.
Nowadays, many Chinese artificial intelligence enterprises have enjoyed a good reputation both at home and abroad. Many creative ideas, many researches and development, and many industrialization work are all born in Shanghai. In the field of artificial intelligence applications, ecological environment, industry, technology and scientific research, as well as human resources According to the statistics of the third parties, the researchers in artificial intelligence account for about one third of the national total, and Zhangjiang has formed a talent gathering area.
In addition, based on data of artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence enterprises need to learn and develop its application based on data, and Shanghai has the ability of strong application scenarios and strong data collection.At present, Shanghai has built a coverage of 20 million Resident population, more than 2 million enterprises and the population, legal persons and basic databases of geography and geography covering the whole city. The medical data sharing system has 25 billion pieces of data and traffic data flow adds 30 GB daily. Big data The average daily trading volume of trading centers is 30 million, accounting for about 50% of the national total.
In the future, we expect more new AI leaders to emerge in Shanghai and expect Shanghai to provide a model for the development and application of artificial intelligence in China and around the world.
2.CES 2018 AI technology worth the wait;
Author: Yair Siegel, CEVA director of market segments,
In the past few years, artificial intelligence-driven devices and services have been the most popular and interesting project at the world's technology show, with clear new trends in the market beyond 2018. First, mainstream consumer products More and more integrated artificial intelligence, not just those high-end and advanced products.Second, many products built artificial intelligence into the front-end device, rather than rely on the cloud.These trends are improving the accessibility of smart applications Sex, Privacy, and Efficiency to make them more widely adopted. The world's largest trade show for consumer electronics and technologies is just around the corner, take a look at the compelling innovations and interesting products this year and the drivers that drive them The latest technology.
Power of 3D vision: SLR cameras from companion robots to deconstruction
Buddy, a home-assistant robot that navigates around the home, won the CES Best Innovation Award for Robot and UAV Categories. The robot is equipped with 3D vision and multiple sensors to assist, educate, entertain and connect users , As well as monitoring security when no one in the house.
The technologies that underpin Buddy's navigation skills are real-time map creation and positioning, automatic collision avoidance and wall blocking, as well as remote user control via the smartphone screen.It is exciting that robots have the potential to learn new skills as the SDK and most software Is open source, allowing anyone interested in developing applications and skills, while Amazon's Alexa and other virtual assistants are just beginning to add functionality with screens and cameras, and robots may be the next evolution.
Another winner of the smart city category is the Amaryllo AR4x, a camera robot that uses embedded AIs to recognize and react to faces and other objects, including opening doors to familiar faces or alerting potential intruders that it has 1080p resolution, night vision function, you can receive power through Ethernet, easy to install, and consume limited power.
The quality of photo-taking on smartphones has been greatly improved lately, thanks in large part to computational photography, deep learning and the integration of dual cameras in new phones. Light has made these technologies even higher in their L16 cameras Floor, which won the Best Innovation Award in the CES digital imaging category Unlike DSLR cameras that use a large lens and sensor or a smartphone with one or two small cameras, the company uses 16 small camera modules The array, each module is equipped with a lens, sensors and mirrors.
Every time the camera takes a picture, there are at least 10 different modules that take the same image with different focal lengths from slightly different angles, then the camera uses smart processing to spliced all the images together to create a high-resolution image Compute the subtle differences in each picture and the angle of the camera to create a depth map of the shot scene.This 3D information is useful for many post-processing functions, such as changing the depth of focus of the scene.After a deconstructed SLR camera The shape of a portable smart phone, to the best of both worlds.
Semi-autonomous cars enter the mass market with efficient sensors and processors
Tesla's price tag, which makes it possible for only a limited number of people to enjoy safe and convenient autopilot while Nissan opted for the mass market to deliver their ProPilot technology on most models, not the most expensive models, The Leaf EV and Rogue compact SUV, the best of the Smart and Autonomous Driving Technology categories, will be available in 2018 with ProPilot technology.
ProPilot technology uses a combination of sensors, including vision and radar, for intelligent cruise control and lane keeping assistance while driving on a one-lane highway. The control module can drive the vehicle when the clear lane markings are visible, but the driver's hand must remain at The steering wheel system to run.
Smart Sound: Personalized immersive audio and in-ear simultaneous interpretation
The nuraphone, which won the Best Innovation Award in the Headset category, is an intriguing product that looks like a headset, but has a silicone earplug that plugs into the ear canal.This design is very effective at isolating passive noise and allows the melody to go straight into the ear , While bass lines use bone conduction technology across the skin.These features are designed to create a highly immersive listening experience that is as live as a show.
Another feature of the Nuraphone is that they learn and adapt to each user's unique hearing, and when first used, the headset plays a particular frequency, prompting the user's ear to generate a subsonic sound called Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) from the cochlea The Nuraphone has a very responsive microphone monitor OAE, and a built-in self-learning engine to decode the perceived sound information and create a personalized auditory file.
This is a very innovative headset, but more exciting technologies can be integrated into these devices.Many new headphones and earphones have active noise cancellation, voice activation, and even voice-only augmentation capabilities. These features are included in the Mars headset, another award-winning product in the headset category, which is a true wireless stereo headset that supports real-time translation of ten languages without the need for any external devices.
One of the biggest challenges is how to combine these features with a battery that lasts for an entire day, requiring ultra-low-power microphones and processors, as well as suitable standards for delivering audio on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) flow.
Looking forward to meet at CES 2018
CES will showcase many exciting technologies and products, and we're sure to see impressive AR / VR technology, drones, etc. But the award-winning products mentioned here foreshadow artificial intelligence, machine learning and complexity Algorithms are coming into everyday life and are practical for most people.Many of these devices come with small batteries or other limited power supplies so energy efficiency is a key factor that determines how well these devices are better As well as how often they need to be charged.With these advances in technology, we will see more cameras, sensors and microphones integrated into such products and the power consumption will become even more important.These technologies are accompanied by efficient and Low-power processing, will get unlimited development opportunities.
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3. Beijing artificial intelligence in 2020 reached the world advanced level
Beijing News (Reporter Wang Jun) Recently, Beijing Municipality promulgated the Guiding Opinion on Accelerating Scientific and Technological Innovation and Cultivating Artificial Intelligence Industry, specifying the timetable for the development of artificial intelligence in Beijing. By 2020, the overall technology and application of the new generation of artificial intelligence have reached the advanced world Level, some of the key technologies have reached the world advanced level, and formed a number of major original basic theories and cutting-edge technology landmark achievements.
The number of artificial intelligence enterprises ranks first in the country
AlphaGo beat Go Ke master Ke Jie, Baidu's driverless car opened on the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing ... ... artificial intelligence to become the hottest field nowadays .In July 2017, the State Department issued "a new generation of artificial intelligence development plan Notice "to raise artificial intelligence as a national strategy.
In July last year, the State Council issued a new generation of artificial intelligence development plan. Since then, Anhui, Zhejiang and Shanghai have also introduced policies and made artificial artificial intelligence. 'Professor Tian Yonghong from Peking University said:' This challenges Beijing and how to retain There are enterprises and talents, so that research results can be developed on the ground, the introduction of guidance is very necessary.
As of September 2017, Beijing has nearly 400 artificial intelligence enterprises, ranking first in the country.Beijing is still the center of artificial intelligence companies, nearly 160 of the nearly 400 AI start-ups in the country in Beijing.
Has more than 10 national key laboratories
In addition, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Automation and other national more than half of the backbone of artificial intelligence research units are gathered in Beijing, with State Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Intelligent Technology and Systems State Key Laboratory, Depth Learning Technology And the application of more than 10 national key laboratories such as the National Engineering Laboratory. "In the fourth round of disciplinary assessment conducted by the Ministry of Education, Beijing has an overwhelming advantage in the related fields of artificial intelligence," said Tian Yonghong.
In January-September 2017, 51 projects in Beijing were invested in the field of artificial intelligence, with a total investment of about 10.24 billion yuan, accounting for 50.9% of the national investment in the same period.
'Beijing's talent base, its research base, and its strong industrial base are the soil that hatch a number of advanced AI companies,' said Tian Yonghong.
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Chinese Academy of Sciences 'face + gait' recognition
Dual mode identification maximizes identification of suspicious individuals
Founded by the CAS Institute of Automation, Galaxy Drop Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. is an artificial intelligence company specializing in big data analysis of computer vision and video.
The company has developed an identification platform for 'full view gait recognition + full face recognition + high-precision crowd counting'.
Among them, the full-view gait recognition in ultra-high definition camera, recognition distance of up to 50 meters, without identifying the initiative to take part in. Due to difficult to disguise the gait, different body size, head shape, muscle strength characteristics, motor nerve sensitivity, walking posture Characteristics together determine the gait has better ability to distinguish.
It is understood that iris recognition needs to target within 30 cm, have infrared light conditions, face recognition needs to be within 1-5 meters, basically positive, light conditions, gait recognition to break the restrictions of these conditions.
The company developed 'long-range face recognition' can achieve 25 meters face recognition, the accuracy rate of 90% or more, to achieve the level of criminal investigation available.
Therefore, the use of 'face + gait' dual-mode identification, to maximize the identification of suspicious people, improve the security level, you can also apply in the field of public security, security deployment, card-free travel, crowd density, super-flow early warning.
'High-precision crowd counting technology' is through ordinary 2K camera 1000 meters 1000 meters on a scale of 1000 people 100 meters real-time count, only the head can be exposed, you can achieve 95% accuracy. The technology allows real-time population density calculations , Early warning of crowd density beyond the safety factor to avoid major accidents such as stampede.
4. Hua Xiaxin released China's first fully autonomous IP AI chip platform, mass production in the first half of 2018
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Undoubtedly, artificial intelligence is the hottest area for the information industry in the past two years.According to PricewaterhouseCoopers data, artificial intelligence will contribute 15.7 trillion U.S. dollars to the world economic GDP by 2030, surpassing the current economy of China and India The sum of the total; by 2035, artificial intelligence is expected to promote the world's labor productivity increase of 40%, prompting a 14% increase in global GDP.
At present, our country has been at the forefront of the world in the field of artificial intelligence algorithm research, application and promotion, and even the design of dedicated accelerating chips, but these elements alone can not really support the operating system, multi-dimensional perception, human-computer interaction, Security, etc. Huge artificial intelligence industry chain from the current shipment of the largest embedded applications point of view, with the latest AI-enabled smart phones, for example, a mobile phone chip contains not only high performance, low power Consuming cores such as CPUs, DSPs and GPUs, as well as specialized computational units such as NPUs (often referred to as NPUs) or ASIC accelerators for deep learning, etc. Therefore, a good and sustainable artificial intelligence Ecosystem must be based on the platform of combining independent innovation, common and dedicated! However, when China's CPU, GPU, DSP and other general-purpose computing cores are still lacking in their own design and innovation capability, China's future artificial intelligence The industry may be the same as today's smart phone industry, even if some of the special chip to achieve a partial breakthrough, but still face The core processor technology had to rely on foreign manufacturers authorized dilemma.
At the same time, the hardware and software design platform that combines advanced computing power and computing power with state-of-the-art programming and debugging advantages, such as CPU / DSP / GPU and other specialized computing units, is being phased in Therefore, if China's high-end core chip should seize the historic development opportunities brought by artificial intelligence, it should take the initiative to attack, pay close attention to the layout and improve our country from high-performance, low power consumption General-purpose processor to a dedicated processor in the field of complete innovation, so as to copy our country in the field of 3G, 4G, 5G from follow and run to lead the successful experience and accelerate the formation of China in the global new generation of heterogeneous computing architecture synthesis Competitive strength.
China's first high-end processor IP and Huaxia core AI dedicated processor IP
On December 28, 2017, Huaxiaxin (Beijing) General Processor Co., Ltd. announced its first high-end processor and AI chip conference in China held at Shanghai Huaxiaxin, China's leading 64-bit high-end Embedded CPU / DSP unified processor IP core, to fill the gap, breaking the foreign high-end embedded processor IP in the field of long-term monopoly.At the same time, Huaxia core also released a special embedded artificial intelligence dedicated processing IP core, making it possible for the first time in an artificial intelligence ecosystem of fully autonomous IP.
It is understood that this release of 64-bit high-end embedded CPU / DSP unified processor IP is the second generation of Huaxia core products, adding many new features. For example, it can achieve one or more superscalar CPU core; increase Variable length vector unit provides powerful parallel computing power; Each CPU core built-in 2D DMA engine that allows users to use virtual address programming, to achieve higher efficiency; CPU core with high-speed storage and dedicated accelerator interface PXI , To achieve high-speed data transfer with the outside ......
This conference, Huaxia core artificial intelligence dedicated processor IP is also one of the highlights.It has many features: the integration of CPU features, without external master control; for high-speed mass space acceleration; good at multitasking, multi-data Parallel computing; High performance, low power consumption, low cost design; Integrated programming, debugging, optimization; Easy to expand the application software to create ecology.
China's first multicore SoC chip based on fully autonomous CPU / DSP / AI
Huaxiaxin also released a multi-core SoC chip platform based on the above independent IP at the conference on December 28 - 'Polaris' This is the first platform-based artificial intelligence chip with independent intellectual property rights of CPU, DSP and AI released in China .
Lee Kwan Yi, chairman of Huaxia Semiconductor, said before the release of artificial intelligence chips are basically AI ASIC, and 'Polaris' is a SoC for a variety of applications (that is, the so-called system-on-chip) chip, not only The AI-dedicated processor for neural networks and deep learning also integrates high-performance CPUs / DSPs with the ability to extend into multiple product areas. Overall, no matter whether it is security, reliability, availability or even area , Power consumption, cost are more suitable for large-scale, commercial applications. 'Polaris' in a single chip programming extensions can be used to achieve high complexity of field control and decision-making, digital signal processing, image signal processing, Network depth learning and feature extraction, multi-threaded parallel computing and other functions.
According to Huaxiaxin introduction, Polaris adopts TSMC's 28nm process technology and will be mass-produced in the first half of 2018. In order to efficiently meet such embedded applications as smart assisted driving, intelligent security monitoring, robotics, computer vision, vehicle and commercial radar detection, voice recognition and other embedded Artificial intelligence applications, but also extends to many other fields such as Industry 4.0, field control, edge computing, smart hardware, smart home, etc., and is a highly adaptable heterogeneous computing and artificial intelligence platform in the market Chip.
China's first smart driving solution that integrates binocular stereo vision and radar sensing
Last year, a serious accident in Tesla resulted in casualties. It made people aware that intelligent driving must be based on safe driving. "Polaris' high-performance computing unit with different features aimed at safe driving can So that safety performance to a new level.In this conference, Huaxia core also launched based on North Star chip China's first binocular stereo vision and radar sensing intelligent driving solution.
According to Huaxiaxin introduction, this Polaris based multi-sensor fusion intelligent driving program has a number of technical features: support for stereo vision 'special engine'; simultaneous calculation of Motion and Stereo; multi-focal length (near focus + far focus) stereoscopic vision With the model; multiple radar (including 24G millimeter-wave radar, 77G millimeter-wave radar, laser radar); different sensing methods of the final analysis of information in the system layer comprehensive judgment and so on.
The Huaxia core product launch has been highly recognized and positive response from industry experts and peers.Zhou Hongren, director of National Informatization Advisory Committee, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dean of School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University Mao Junfa, More than 300 experts, leaders of Yu Zonguang and other experts as well as deputy director of 58 branches of China Electronics Branch, as well as more than 300 representatives from upstream and downstream production, study and research institutes attended the conference.
Li Ke Yi said: 'If artificial intelligence is for humankind to open a door to realize the dream of the future, Huaxia core positioning what is it? Our full range of IP, hope that chip design and customization easier, make software programming more convenient , Let the system manufacturer obtain the better solution.We are the key who designs the artificial intelligence, and help the partner to open the door of the future.