Cambridge Consultants artificial intelligence moves beyond human vision

Breakthrough innovation specialist Cambridge Consultants have announced SharpWave™, a ground-breaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that creates clear, undistorted views of the real-world from a damaged or obscured moving image. Based on recent advances in deep learning, SharpWave’s power to see clearly in difficult, unpredictable situations could transform numerous machine vision and imaging applications, from autonomous driving to empowering healthcare professionals with more accurate medical imaging.

Machine vision systems have progressed rapidly in recent years, however performance can quickly deteriorate if a view is obscured by rain, smoke, dirt or other obstructions. This has serious implications for real-world applications where image quality can be degraded by environmental factors or damage to camera-based systems.

SharpWave learns what real-world scenes and objects look like and also how they appear with various image distortions applied. When presented with a distorted image it has never seen before, the technology can then form a real-time judgement of the ‘true’ scene behind the distortion. Having this “mind’s eye” ability means that SharpWave will outperform humans and existing machine vision approaches in reconstructing clear images under difficult conditions.

SharpWave is the latest technology to emerge from Cambridge Consultants’ Digital Greenhouse™, a unique experimental environment where data scientists and engineers explore and cultivate cutting-edge deep learning techniques. Leveraging this capability to deliver world-changing commercial applications led to Cambridge Consultants being named the first NVIDIA preferred deep learning delivery partner in the EMEA region.

SharpWave uses unique extensions of the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture. Training requires six neural networks to compete against each in teams, inventing difficult scenes and attempting to remove distortion. Effective end-to-end training of so many networks together has only been possible in the last two years but is yielding radical new capabilities.

To find out more about SharpWave™ please visit: https://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/sharpwave

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