By Charbel Rizk, PhD., Founder and CEO, Oculi
Charbel Rizk
Technological Innovations:
- What major technological advancements or innovations do you foresee occurring in your industry in 2024?
In 2024 we foresee an increased demand for visual intelligence at the edge. The term smart sensor has been overused in previous years to mean adding or extracting some intelligence after the image has been captured, stored, or transmitted off the image sensor. While the result may indeed derive some intelligence, it is a highly inefficient process which is slow, power hungry, and expensive if the industry continues with the traditional dumb image sensor. Increasingly we see this demand for smart sensors not just as wishful thinking, but governments and regulators as turning it into policy requirements for certain systems. For example, in Europe, under the General Vehicle Safety Regulation, all new types of vehicles must be fitted with an advanced driver distraction warning system from mid-2024, where driver eye movements are monitored and warned when distracted to help reduce accidents. No doubt this will soon follow in the US and elsewhere. A new type of sensor capable of visual intelligence will be necessary to meet this and similar smart sensors or devices based on machine vision.
- How do you plan to adapt or lead in these areas?
Oculi has had a head start and innovated on our technology over decades since we understood the problems with the conventional image sensor model of ever-increasing data from dumb pixels, high bandwidth transfer to power hungry post-processing processors to achieve current smart sensors.
