Google is launching smartphones and digital devices that can recognize people and things. This seems to be the direction of the search giant when it teamed up with the technology company Movidius.
The partnership was announced by the chipmaker on Wednesday. Movidius apparently will allow the integration of its powerful image recognition technology to the devices that the Mountain View-based search company is planning to launch.
This collaboration also calls for the tech company to provide Google its deep machine learning technology aside from its visual recognition system. In addition, the Android creator will use the chipmaker's vision processor in its upcoming digital devices.
Computers that use deep learning are built similar to the human brain. This allows them to identify and understand objects in the same manner that people do. The search giant has been using this technology in Google Photos allowing users to find people or specific objects in their pictures.
The two companies have previously collaborated on Project Tango, one of Google's technology platforms that make use of several cameras enabling computers to see spaces in 3D. It seems the same technology will be integrated in Google's Android phones.
With the addition of this technology, mobile phones will be able to identify the things they are viewing without depending on the internet. Additionally, mobile phones will be able to distinguish words such as street signs they see on their viewing range. They will then feed this information to the phone for whatever processing or purpose the owners may want.
According to the search giant, this may even lead to the development of new phones and digital devices that have never been created before.
"Instead of us adapting to computers and having to learn their language, computers are becoming more and more intelligent in the sense that they adapt to us," says Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Google's head of Machine Intelligence Group.
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