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Practical AI and computer vision technology is being developed for systems that span virtually every application, and many of these application areas will experience huge growth rates. With trendsetting products demonstrating what is possible, system designers have discovered that the suppliers of computer vision technology have removed the barriers to building practical computer vision systems—unleashing a huge wave of innovation for new products and applications.
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Better Than Real? What an Apple-Orchard Benchmark Really Says About Synthetic Data for Vision AI
If you work on edge AI or computer vision, you’ve probably run into the same wall over and over: The model architecture is fine. The deployment hardware is (barely) ok. But the data is killing you—too narrow, too noisy, too expensive to expand. That’s true whether you’re counting apples, spotting defects on a production line,
Ambarella’s CV3-AD655 Surround View with IMG BXM GPU: A Case Study
The CV3-AD family block diagram. This blog post was originally published at Imagination Technologies’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. Ambarella’s CV3-AD655 autonomous driving AI domain controller pairs energy-efficient compute with Imagination’s IMG BXM GPU to enable real-time surround-view visualisation for L2++/L3 vehicles. This case study outlines the industry shift
Overcoming the Skies: Navigating the Challenges of Drone Autonomy
This blog post was originally published at Inuitive’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Inuitive. From early military prototypes to today’s complex commercial operations, drones have evolved from experimental aircraft into essential tools across industries. Since the FAA issued its first commercial permit in 2006, applications have rapidly expanded—from disaster relief and
NVIDIA Advances Open Model Development for Digital and Physical AI
This blog post was originally published at NVIDIA’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of NVIDIA. NVIDIA releases new AI tools for speech, safety and autonomous driving — including NVIDIA DRIVE Alpamayo-R1, the world’s first open industry-scale reasoning vision language action model for mobility — and a new independent benchmark recognizes the openness and
The 8-Series Reimagined: Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Delivers Premium Performance and Experiences
San Diego, California November 25, 2025 — Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced the Snapdragon® 8 Gen 5 Mobile Platform, a premium offering that combines outstanding performance with cutting-edge technologies, raising the bar for flagship mobile experiences. Key Takeaways: The Snapdragon 8-series continues to expand premium smartphone technologies, fueling many of the world’s leading flagship devices,
Google Announces LiteRT Qualcomm AI Engine Direct Accelerator
Google has announced a new LiteRT Qualcomm AI Engine Direct Accelerator, giving Android and embedded developers a much more direct path to Qualcomm NPUs for on-device AI and vision workloads. Built on top of Qualcomm’s AI Engine Direct (“QNN”) SDK, the new accelerator replaces the older TensorFlow Lite QNN delegate and plugs directly into LiteRT,
Small Models, Big Heat — Conquering Korean ASR with Low-bit Whisper
This blog post was originally published at ENERZAi’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of ENERZAi. Today, we’ll share results where we re-trained the original Whisper for optimal Korean ASR(Automatic Speech Recognition), applied Post-Training Quantization (PTQ), and provided a richer Pareto analysis so customers with different constraints and requirements can pick exactly what
China’s Autonomous Trucks Now Log Over One Million Kilometers Daily
This blog post was originally published at IDTechEx’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of IDTechEx. To gain deeper insights into the rapidly accelerating market for autonomous trucks in China, IDTechEx recently visited Inceptio Technology, a leading Chinese autonomous trucking company. Across the global autonomous vehicle landscape, commercial trucks are emerging as one of the first
Public road demonstration tests of the latest autonomous driving EV bus, including nighttime operation, have begun at a hot spring resort
Following on from last year, Macnica, Inc., Fukuyama Consultant Co., Ltd., and KCS Corporation will collaborate with Ureshino City, Saga Prefecture, to conduct a public road demonstration experiment of autonomous driving vehicle (autonomous driving level 2) through co-creation with the local community, and will verify the degree to which autonomous driving will contribute to the
VC MIPI Cameras & ADLINK i.MX 8M Plus: Full driver support
Ettlingen, November 18, 2025 — For a medical imaging project, ADLINK wanted to integrate VC MIPI Cameras with its I-Pi SMARC IMX8M Plus Development Kit. Vision Components adapted the standard driver for the NXP i.MX 8M Plus processor platform to the ADLINK board, including full ISP support, for features such as color tuning etc. As
