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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol.6: New Wave computers utilizing FPGA

Helloeveryone,I’mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUSTokyoR&Dcenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadesofexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandIwillcommentonvariousAIindustryrelatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.Involumefiveofthisarticleseries,wetalkedaboutthebasicstructuresofFPGAsandaboutthenewnon-volatileFPGAdevices.Finally,weconcludedwithashortcasestudythatillustratedthepotentialof…

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol.5: Latest Trends in Non-Volatile FPGAs

Helloeveryone,I’mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUSTokyoR&DCenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadeslongexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandcommentondifferentAIindustryrelatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.Todaylet’stalkaboutthelatesttrendsinthefieldofnon-volatileFPGAs. NV-FPGAInitiative–PublicSymposiumOnJanuary8th,2021,apublicsymposiumwasheldbyNon-VolatileField-ProgrammableGateArray(NV-FPGA)Initiative,oneof…

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol4: Why is the Apple M1 processor so fast?

Helloeveryone,I’mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUSTokyoR&DCenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadeslongexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandcommentondifferentAIindustryrelatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective. Today,IwouldliketotalkabouttheM1processorbyApple,whichisusedinApple'svariousproducts-includingMacBookPro,MacBookAir,andMacminiannouncedinNovember2020.Manyprofessionalshavealready…

2020

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol2: NVIDIA Ampere takes advantage of deep learning sparsity

Helloeveryone,I’mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUSTokyoR&DCenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadeslongexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandcommentondifferentAIindustryrelatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.Youcanreadthe Vol1oftheseriesbyclinkingthelink.Today,IwouldliketotalkaboutNVIDIAAmpere.InMay2020,NVIDIAunveiledsomenewproductssuchastheNVIDIAAmperearchitectureanditsproduct…

2020

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol3: AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx

Hello,I’mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUSTokyoR&DCenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadeslongexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandcommentondifferentAIindustryrelatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.YoucanreadtheVol1andVol2oftheseriesbyclinkingthelinks.Today,Iwouldliketotalkaboutthebignews,whichistheacquisitionofXilinxfromsemiconductormakerAMD[1][2].Iwill…

2020

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Material Informatics x Sparse Modeling Vol.1: RDKit and Lasso

Helloeveryone.ThisisUnseo,adatascientisthereatHACARUS-todayIwillintroducesomeofourlatestworkinbringingourtechnologytobearinthefieldofMaterialInformatics.HACARUSprovidessolutionsthatemphasize"why?"oftheprocessutilizingsparsemodeling,inadditionto"prediction"thathasbeenperformedbyconventionalmachinelearning.Analysisusingsparsemodelingisalsoverysuitableforapplicationinthefieldsofdrugdiscoveryandmaterialdevelopment.Today,Iwouldlike…

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Point Cloud Denoising with Sparse Modeling

Hi!I'mYushiroYamashita,adatascientistatHACARUS.Today,Iwillliketointroducetheapplicationofsparsemodelingtopointclouddata. PointCloudIwanttofirststartbyintroducingwhatpointcloudis.Pointcloudisathree-dimensionaldatainwhichthecoordinatevaluesofeachpointarerecordedinaformatsuchas(x,y,z).Unlikeimageandvideodata,pointcloudhasauniquecharacteristicthatthedataarenotarrangedregularlyat…

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Edge AI Evangelist’s Thoughts Vol1: Is NVIDIA’s acquisition of Arm going to propel RISC-V?

Hello,I'mHaruyukiTago,EdgeEvangelistatHACARUSTokyoR&DCenter.Inthisseriesofarticles,IwillsharesomeinsightsfrommydecadeslongexperienceinthesemiconductorindustryandcommentondifferentAIindustryrelatedtopicsfrommyuniqueperspective.Sincethisisthefirsttime,I'llstartbyintroducingmyself.In1977,IjoinedthesemiconductordivisionofTokyoShibauraElectricCo.andwasinvolvedinthedesignanddevelopmentoftheEmotionEngine,theCPUin…

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Hyperspectral Imaging and Sparse Modeling – Practical Experiments

ThisisRyujiMasui,DataScientistatHACARUS.Inthisarticle,I'mgoingtofocusonhowtoapplySparseModelingtoHyperspectralImaging,atechnologyHACARUShasstronginterestin.HyperspectralImageLet'sstartoffbyexplainingwhatHyperspectralImages(HSI)are.NormalcamerasthatarefamiliartousarecalledRGBcameras,basedliterallyonthethreeprimarycolorsoflight:red,green,andblue.Suchcamerassenseeachwavelengthtocaptureimages.Insimplerterms,bymixing…

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Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine(DICOM) Annotation using Computer Vision Annotation Tools(CVAT)

TL;DR-CVATwasusedasanannotationtoolformedicalAIdevelopment-CVATwasadjustedtobecompatibletoreadDICOM-AclasstoreadinDICOMwasaddedtocvat/apps/engine/media_extractors.py-Somefeaturesthatwillbeusefulinrealprojects,suchasdefaultlabelsettingswerealsoadded1.AboutCVATHello,mynameisYuyaSumie,adatascientistatHACARUS.Inordertodevelopmachinelearningalgorithms,weneedtoknowhowtofinalize…