The U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the launch of
FENCE (Fast Event-basedNeuromorphic Camera and Electronics) are entrusted to teams from three companies: Raytheon, BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman. All three are the largest representatives of the US military-industrial complex. Each of the teams will offer its own version of the camera with neuromorphic chips and algorithms.
Modern methods of image processingare becoming more and more perfect. The newer ones can capture high-resolution images and track objects with great accuracy, but they do this by processing large amounts of data, which takes time and energy.
FENCE should create a camera witha processor that would work according to the same algorithm: all attention should be given to those areas of the image where something worthy of close examination is happening. This will reduce the amount of data transferred for processing and reduce power consumption.
The result can be a fence sensor that consumes less than 1.5 wattsPower.
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