Could sight be a sense soon to be unlocked by artificial intelligence? This is the basis of a project led by researchers at the University of Central Florida.
In practical terms, the technology could allow AI to instantly understand what it's actually looking at. – is that it is more powerful than the eye in terms of wavelength range. That is, it can perceive ultraviolet as well as visible light. For self-driving vehicles, the device’s versatility could offer safer driving in a range of conditions, as Molla Manjurul Islam, the study’s lead author, explains.
The intelligent imaging technologies currently available function in several separate stages, from the sensing to the memorisation and processing of data. “We had devices, which behaved like the synapses of the human brain, but still, we were not feeding them the image directly,” says Tania Roy, an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida.