University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor
Gert Cauwenberghs has been selected by the National Science Foundation to take
part in a five-year, multi-institutional, $10 million research project to
develop a computer vision system that will approach or exceed the capabilities
and efficiencies of human vision. The Visual Cortex on Silicon project, funded
through NSF’s Expeditions in Computing program, aims to create computers that
not only record images but also understand visual content and situational
context in the way humans do, at up to a thousand times the efficiency of
current technologies, according to an NSF announcement.