AI Lab

With a combined total of more than 30 full-time employees and interns, our data science team continues to grow, each bringing unique expertise and perspectives. Sparse modeling, which HACARUS core technology is built on, is so diverse that individual differences in knowledge and skills have emerged within our team. In order to complement each other, we have started study sessions to learn more about sparse modeling as part of our everyday business we call these "The Sparse Modeling Study Sessions"…

In this article, Daisuke Takahashi, a data scientist at HACARUS explains the process of Human Part Segmentation using a high performance edge device; the Jetson Nano Developer Kit.   What is the Jetson Nano Developer Kit? The Jetson Nano is a purpose built edge device by NVIDIA that allows for GPU based operations in a light and cost effective package. Much like a standard computer it allows you to run various applications. For this use case we installed a Linux…

On December 19, 2019, Takashi Someda, HACARUS’ Chief Technical Officer, Naoki Kitora, its Chief Data Scientist and Ryuji Masui, Data Scientist gave a lecture at Shiga University, to the Graduate School of Data Science, introducing real world examples of utilizing machine learning for improving visual inspection at manufacturing sites. The Graduate School of Data Science at Shiga University, which opened in April of this year, has a mixed student body, consisting of professionals, in addition to those who have advanced…

Hey there! I’m Maeda, one of Hacarus’s FPGA interns. Just like the title says, I joined the course called Amazon EC2 F1 Instance.  In this report, I’ll explain what I learned point-by-point. So, what's an F1 Instance?  The F1 Instance is a compute instance with Field Programmable Gate Arrays, abbreviated as FPGA. The F1 instance (Formula 1, includes Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ VU9P) is an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) equipped with FPGA.  In FPGA, users can program the logic functions that…

Hello! My name is Kishimoto. I’m an engineer intern at Hacarus. I’m going to be checking out NVIDIA’s high power board computer, the Jetson Nano, a highly reviewed Edge AI board and recent topic in the tech world. The Jetson Nano is a high-performance edge device with 4 Core Arm CPU (Central Processing Unit) and 128 CUDA Core. Using the CUDA Core, I'm going to be trying the Lasso Regression technique. 1. Jetson Nano’s Development Environment Developed by NVIDIA, Jetson…