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Photos and videos are by no means lightweight files, they are fast occupy gigabytes of disk space and make it difficult to find necessary content. Engineers from the iniLabs Swiss company found a new solution to this problem – they created a camera that borrows its mechanics from the human retina.
Dynamic Visual Sensor (DVS) works like a human the retina and this allows you to create hyperactive and ultrafast cameras. The individual neurons in our eye are actually they don’t record all the information in sight; they only notice changes in movement. This allows you to get rid of a huge amount of redundant information from the environment – and that’s how DVS works. Selectively recording only movements DVS can record many hours of video using very little energy and just a few megabytes of disk space.
However, the biological similarity of the sensor goes beyond imitation. the retina. The chips underlying DVS come from the line IBM microchips based on the human brain – TrueNorth computer architecture. It’s quite logical to support one humanoid process to another, developers say system.
But interestingly, DVS sometimes works even better than the brain. Since she notices changes in movement almost instantly, the camera can provide visual data for systems requiring quick response. However, what it gains in speed and efficiency, DVS loses in resolution. As you can see on In this shot of milk splashes, the camera picture is very grainy.
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