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Can “machine eyes” see society and the future?
Can “machine eyes” see society and the future?
-The people who created machines beyond humans–
“Machine eyes” beyond humans
The sound of the wind is getting louder and louder.
When I think it has grown, the next moment is a light-driving passenger car.
The sound became low, and when I thought I was far away, I continued to drive at high speed under the strong vibration of the truck and sports car.
The technology to capture and recognize license plates by tracking successive cars with different models and different speeds.
Even athletes with excellent dynamic vision can never catch up.
Masaki Suwa, a senior engineer in image sensing technology, created a technology that recognizes objects at a faster rate than humans and simultaneously captures the three dimensions of human space.
Professional Masaki Suwa from the Technology and Intellectual Property Headquarters
It can be said that image detection is “the eye of the machine”.
No matter how powerful the machine is, if it does not have the “five senses” of the sensory organs, it will become a machine that can only move blindly.
Image detection technology is built into equipment and equipment, and plays the role of capturing the “eyes” of objects.
It is said that humans can obtain more than 80% of the information around them visually.
The machine cannot cooperate with the surrounding environment to control itself, nor can it see the constantly changing situation.
For more than 40 years, Omron has developed advanced image detection technology to replace the “human eye” and has supported the development of society in various fields of industry, society and life.
Suwa first participated in the development of 2D character recognition sensors at OMRON.
Recognize the characters and codes in the images taken by the camera, and read the characters and codes (such as the expiration date and food production batch number printed on the product by the factory) to identify the license plate and read the business. card.
This technology has been widely used for business card recognition in smartphone applications.
At that time, the development of road traffic sensors equipped with the industry’s first technology determined the life of the visiting Su city developer.
On the road, by accurately determining the volume of traffic, the speed of the car you are driving, the type of vehicle, etc. And by controlling the signal or displaying the guidance on the traffic information board, the flow of traffic is controlled to avoid jams. . ..
However, 2D image detection sometimes does not adapt to changing road conditions such as shadows from buildings and parallel cars, cars lined up in traffic jams, and headlights reflecting off the road.
“Can we use two cameras to measure distance capturing the same ‘depth’ of the human eye?”
When this concept was born at the end of the development project team discussion, Suwa felt great future and potential.
He continued to search for a method to install two cameras on the same principle as the human eye.
What is needed is durability to maintain normal driving even when exposed to rain and wind, and high precision that can capture vehicles up to 60m away and achieve precise eye functions.
What bothers Suwa most is the need to achieve such high performance in a limited size.
Humans can immediately process a large amount of information from both eyes, to understand the surrounding situation and easily recognize various three-dimensional objects. Supercomputers are not enough to process the same amount of information.
“It’s hard to feel when the size is small.”
To solve this contradiction problem, Suwa completely reduced the range of information needed from the images captured by the two cameras and improved the accuracy of depth detection.
It is a challenge because it is difficult. Such a developer soul promotes difficult development.
With the development of this technology, cars with a recognition rate of 97% or more can be detected regardless of day, night or weather.
This road traffic sensor is equipped with a mechanism that can receive light through two cameras and calculate the distance based on the difference in the path of entry of the light. This is unique to Omron and cannot be replicated anywhere else.
Identify the base and perform high-precision refinement
Three-dimensional recognition of electronic components and display of color difference
Suwa can be said to be the top engineer of OMRON imaging. He spent most of his time developing it.
This technology is used for three-dimensional reconnaissance inspection to check the shape and joint condition of the “solder” of electronic components mounted on it. . matrix. It is said to be 3D image detection technology.
The board inspection device is a device for high-speed inspection of the soldering state of the board, and hundreds of electronic components smaller than 1 mm square are mounted on the board.
Different from using two cameras such as traffic sensors for 3D image detection, one camera is a camera and the other is a projector that projects a specific pattern onto the whiteboard.
I think that three-dimensional objects can be recognized by the subtle deformation of the projection pattern, but it is not easy to re-develop them.
Such equipment requires precision and speed.
Developed a 3D image detection function, which can change patterns at an ultra-high speed of 100 times per second, which is not recognized by the human eye.
By numerically controlling the shape and joining state of the “solder” that is critical to the quality of electronic devices, high-quality, high-speed products can already be produced.
Illuminate the electronic component (left) with a specific pattern (right) to recognize the three-dimensional shape
It has been 18 years since Suwa started developing 3D imaging detection.
The technology has finally flourished and the scope of the device has expanded. 3D image detection has become one of Omron’s core technologies.
Omron (OMRON) has created unsurpassed image detection technology and, combined with the advantages of OMRON (OMRON), Omron continues to improve its technology to achieve high performance from small parts.
“It is not necessary to process every pixel of the image captured by the camera.
This is the essence of Omron image detection, which can refine the really important information at high speed and high precision. It is also a place to test the source of feeding, “Wa said.
Today is the cloud era.
Supercomputers can be used to collect big data and calculate and analyze large amounts of information.
However, if the accuracy of the data composing the big data itself is poor, accurate answers cannot be obtained, and if a supercomputer is used to calculate everything, the best time for judgment at this time can be determined. You might miss it.
The core of the Internet of Things is how to extract the reality that is happening in the data.
Omron considers how to operate “wisely” with limited resources (such as the size of the CPU and memory that can be integrated into the device) and the compact, high-performance human eye and brain without large-capacity hardware. We have developed devices with built-in functions.
As a palm-sized device, it is active in cities, buildings, roads, factories, and anywhere in society, and can provide information about the machine “machine eye”.
Palm-sized Image Sensor “Components of Human Vision”
Can “machine eyes” see through thoughts and the future?
By looking into the “eyes of the machine” many problems can still be solved.
How to make the invisible part visible.
Wa’s visit to the city not only tried to perceive “places that are not physically visible”, but also tried to perceive “within humans” and “the future as a timeline”.
For example, it is still difficult to detect physically invisible objects like cars approaching from the other side of the corner or in heavy fog with sensing technology.
On the other hand, the feeling of “seeing” the human interior is also evolving. Omron has developed a facial recognition technology that can automatically recognize human faces.
As a technology that supports autonomous driving, people have high expectations about it, but in the future, you will not only be able to recognize faces and movements, but also express facial “fatigue”.
I want to develop techniques for “looking in”, such as “I want to know if I am sleeping” or “I want to know if I am sleeping.”
On-board sensors can estimate the driver’s attention based on the driver’s behavior and facial expressions
The “perception of the future” that predicts the future is no longer a dream story.
Make predictions within a few seconds in the near future, such as predicting the entry of vehicles behind and accelerating in the rearview mirror, or predicting and avoiding the movement of approaching vehicles due to narrow roads. Already standing.
Fully forcefully accepted the interview.
“Development is a series of difficulties. But when we overcome obstacles and push products to the world, many people will be surprised and happy. Really imagine that our technology will change society.
This is the driving force for daily development.”
Omron
Develop technologies that predict the future as much as possible, one step ahead of the future, so that the future can bring about a better society.
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The powerhouse typhoon is the equivalent of a very strong Category 4 hurricane as it approaches the northernmost island of the Philippines before turning to the north, continuing its damaging path.
Violent Typhoon Mawar, which pounded Guam with destructive winds and flooding downpours earlier this week, is continuing to churn west across the Pacific Ocean and will impact more landmasses in the western Pacific and eastern Asia next week, according to AccuWeather forecasters.
Despite already achieving the status of strongest tropical cyclone on the planet so far this year, Mawar may strengthen further and then aim for portions of the Philippines, Japan and Taiwan beginning Sunday, with more flooding rainfall and strong winds expected.
Super Typhoon Mawar is seen on AccuWeather Enhanced RealVue™ satellite May 27, 2023.
As of Saturday afternoon, local time, Mawar was a powerful typhoon centered several hundred miles to the west-northwest of Guam, packing winds equivalent to that of a strong Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale (maximum sustained winds of 130-156 mph, or 209-251 km/h).
According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA), the governing body which monitors and tracks tropical cyclones in this portion of the western Pacific tropical basin, the ‘violent’ designation is given to typhoons with maximum sustained winds of at least 121 mph (194 km/h).
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“Mawar is forecast to maintain intensity, or even strengthen slightly, as it continues to track westward across the Philippine Sea into this weekend,” said AccuWeather Lead International Forecaster Jason Nicholls.
The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea located within the western Pacific Ocean, bounded by the Philippines to the west and the Mariana Trench to the east.
The AccuWeather EyePath® forecast calls for Mawar to peak at the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane (maximum sustained winds of at least 157 mph, or 252 km/h). After that, the storm will maintain or lose some wind intensity as it begins to impact land again.
“The typhoon is expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds to northern Luzon in the Philippines from later Sunday through Tuesday, local time,” said Nicholls.
Much like what happened in Guam earlier this week, the eye of the typhoon is expected to remain to the north of Luzon when it approaches early next week. However, there will still be impacts, and AccuWeather meteorologists warn that the storm is likely to be the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane around then.
“The amount of rain that falls and the strength of the wind in the Philippines will depend on how close the storm gets before making an expected turn to the north,” added Nicholls. Despite that uncertainty, even the outer rain bands of a tropical system like Mawar can bring flooding downpours and damaging wind gusts.
As Mawar approaches the Philippines, the country’s weather bureau, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), took over from the JMA in monitoring the typhoon as of early Saturday morning, local time. At that point, the typhoon gained the designation of ‘Betty’ in the Philippines.
In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, downed tree branches litter a neighborhood in Yona, Guam, Thursday, May 25, 2023, after Typhoon Mawar passed over the island. The powerful typhoon smashed the U.S. territory of Guam and continued lashing the Pacific island with high winds and heavy rain Thursday, knocking down trees, walls and power lines and creating a powerful storm surge that threatened to wash out low-lying areas. (Chief Warrant Officer Adam Brown/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
Ahead of the expected impacts this weekend, officials in the Philippines are preparing. Sea trips around the archipelago nation are being suspended, an official with the Philippine Ports Authority told CNN. Additionally, operators of smaller boats are being warned against fishing and sailing in the waters off the coast.
By next week, after Mawar impacts the Philippines, AccuWeather forecasters expect the typhoon to take aim at portions of Japan and Taiwan as it begins to slow in forward speed.
“Despite an expected loss in wind intensity as the typhoon churns to the north, Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and eastern Taiwan could also endure impacts during the middle and latter portion of the week,” said Nicholls. “Eventually, the southern Japan mainland could endure impacts by next weekend.”
Mawar has already caused substantial damage
Mawar has already carved a powerful and destructive path since it was first designated as a tropical system over the open waters of the Pacific back on May 19. Just two days later, it became the first typhoon of the 2023 season and the strongest storm the planet has seen so far this year less than a week later.
Although typhoons regularly impact Guam, Mawar has since achieved a strength, both in wind intensity and minimum central pressure, not seen in the tropical basin as a whole since deadly Typhoon Surigae in 2021 or in that specific part of the basin near Guam since Typhoon Damrey in 2000.
When it impacted Guam on Wednesday, the typhoon unleashed strong winds of over 140 mph (225 km/h) snapped trees, ripped roofs off of buildings and brought more than 2 feet of rain in just hours.
“We’re looking out our door and what used to be a jungle looks like toothpicks, like a scene from the movie ‘Twister,’ with trees just thrashed apart,” Landon Aydlett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Guam, told The Associated Press.
While damage and power outages were widespread, the AP reported that there were no fatalities and only minor injuries as Mawar moved through.
President Biden approved a disaster declaration for the island late Thursday, which will allow federal funding to flow to the United States territory to aid in the recovery effort in the coming days and months.
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The country’s defence ministry says Russian ‘intelligence-gathering’ aircraft spotted near its coasts along the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan.
Japan scrambled fighter jets after spotting Russian “intelligence-gathering” aircraft off its coasts along the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan on Thursday, the country’s defence ministry has said.
One Russian aircraft travelled from Japan’s north down along part of its west coast, while the other took a similar route along the opposite coast and returned the same way, the Joint Staff office run under the defence ministry said in a brief statement.
“In response, fighters of the Air Self-Defence Force’s Northern Air Force and other units were scrambled,” it added.
There was no further information on the incident, which comes days after Japan hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the summit of Group of Seven (G7) – a grouping of rich nations – in Hiroshima city.
Japan has joined Western allies in sanctioning Moscow over its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and has warned of the threat posed by Russia.
Its latest security document, which once called for enhanced ties and cooperation with Russia, now warns that Moscow’s military posturing in Asia and cooperation with China are “a strong security concern”.
Last May, Chinese and Russian military jets carried out joint flights near Japan immediately after a meeting of the United States-led Quad grouping in Tokyo. India and Australia are other members of Quad.
And more recently, Moscow has carried out military exercises, including test-firing missiles, in the Sea of Japan.
Russia considers Japan to be a “hostile” country – a designation it shares with all European Union countries, the US and its allies, including the United Kingdom and Australia.
Tokyo had complex relations with Moscow before the invasion of Ukraine in February, and the two sides have yet to sign a post-World War II peace treaty.
Attempts to do so have been hampered by a long-running dispute over islands controlled by Russia, which calls them the Kurils.
France has banned domestic short-haul flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to cut carbon emissions.
The law came into force two years after lawmakers had voted to end routes where the same journey could be made by train in under two-and-a-half hours.
The ban all but rules out air travel between Paris and cities including Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux, while connecting flights are unaffected.
Critics have described the latest measures as “symbolic bans”.
Laurent Donceel, interim head of industry group Airlines for Europe (A4E), told the AFP news agency that “banning these trips will only have minimal effects” on CO2 output.
He added that governments should instead support “real and significant solutions” to the issue.
Airlines around the world have been severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic, with website Flightradar24 reporting that the number of flights last year was down almost 42% from 2019.
The French government had faced calls to introduce even stricter rules.
France’s Citizens’ Convention on Climate, which was created by President Emmanuel Macron in 2019 and included 150 members of the public, had proposed scrapping plane journeys where train journeys of under four hours existed.
But this was reduced to two-and-a-half hours after objections from some regions, as well as the airline Air France-KLM.
French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir had earlier called on lawmakers to retain the four-hour limit.
“On average, the plane emits 77 times more CO2 per passenger than the train on these routes, even though the train is cheaper and the time lost is limited to 40 minutes,” it said.
It also called for “safeguards that [French national railway] SNCF will not seize the opportunity to artificially inflate its prices or degrade the quality of rail service”.
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