MACHINES CAN UNDERSTAND THEIR SURROUNDING USING ONLY CAMERA

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“VISUAL POSITIONING SERVICE”

One of the computer vision startups launched in London called “Space Technologies” with a help of seed funding receive almost 8 millions dollars for the developing of his new innovation named “Visual Positioning Service”. This program give a possibility to inventors of different applications that need an accurate location use the service that is much more sensitive and precise than a usual GPS.

At the beginning the techniques may be used by applications that use an augmented reality, but the inventors think that it also may apply to applications of different categories such as mobility, logistics, robotics etc. Moreover, the company plan to implement the system in different machines, firstly in cars that have a camera, so that they be able to understand their accurate position.[1]

Those steps are supported by different companies such as LocalGlobe, Mosaic Ventures, Fly Ventures and by the builders of the organization Entrepreneur First. The startup is not so well-known, it actually remain quite secret until know. One of the places there it was announced in public was an EF cohort 7 where it took [art in the annual demo day.

The co-founder of the Space Technologies and CEO Edward Miller explain such strict privacy of the company. They said it is so because a lot of hoopla exist around the space technologies and inventions. That is why the company put all the affords not on the advertisement, publicity or the hype around the innovation but on the quality, accuracy, credibility and trustworthy. The researchers want to make a completely new way of infrastructure that will be based only on a usage of camera and will be monitored and navigate by the AI. The project that makes al that ideas a reality called “Vision Engine” and is the center of current research.

“VISION ENGINE” PROJECT

The CEO of the company told that as a part of this project will be developed a 3D maps from the usual images and videos of the surrounding as a large-scale mapping pipeline. Thanks to the invented by the company Positioning Service API that can be used by the cameras in any device the accuracy of the location will be incomparable to GPS services. Currently the invention can be used in London for chosen partners.

Miller reject to give detailed explanation have the team of 30 people make such detailed map of the hole London to save some secrets that make a startup more mysterious. [2]

INVENTORS BACKGROUND

It is important to mention that the current CEO before was one of the photographers of British streets, that give his a significant benefit – the vision of the city in a map moreover in a different scale. He also was familiar with a production of interactive images and even took part in projects conducted in this sphere for big corporations. One of them was Jaguar. What is more the Millers partner worked on different research projects in the robotics field. Once he take part in study were he taught robots with many logs how to walk. [3]

FACED DIFICALTIES

One of the difficulties that inventors faced was the attempt to make the computers “see” surrounding with a camera. Computers in comparison with people see the photo in a completely different way, while humans can recognize cars, buildings etc. computers see only bunch of ones and zeros. The aim was to make it convert that signs into something with the intent.

The “Space Technologies” have to invent a lot of little technological devices so that computers were able to find as accurate as possible the location of the user despite any weather conditions. The invention is able to connect to a lot of services at the same time. It means that the service can be provided within the level of a hole city.

The technique is really unique because in enable previously impossible applications.[4]

 

 

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/08/scape/

[2]https://pitchbook.com/newsletter/scape-collects-8m-seed

[3]http://www.finsmes.com/2019/01/scape-technologies-raises-8m-in-seed-funding.html

[4]https://medium.com/scape-technologies/vision-for-the-future-dcb7d058b0d3

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