Prophesee Introduces Metavision SDK5 PRO
Now included with USB EVK purchases
PARIS – October 7, 2024 – Since its launch in 2020, Metavision SDK has been an incredible success, establishing itself as the most comprehensive event-based software suite on the market. With 64 algorithms, 105 code samples, and 17 tutorials, it’s become the go-to toolkit for over 15,000 users worldwide and has earned 5 prestigious international awards.
Building on this momentum, we are excited to take the next step in empowering the community to achieve their vision with even greater ease.
Starting today, Metavision SDK5 PRO:
- Is included at no additional cost in both binaries and source form with every Prophesee USB EVK purchase.
- Is available for standalone purchase and more accessible than ever, allowing even more developers to turn their ideas into reality.
Join a rapidly growing global community and unlock your next breakthrough with Metavision SDK Pro: http://m.rfnf.cn/en/metavision-sdk-pro/
Contents:
NEW in Metavision SDK5.0 Pro:
- Demo stereo matching
- Stereo / N-Camera calibration app
- Active markers demo optimized for embedded platforms
- New simplified classes to iterate over events from synchronized cameras in Python and C++
- New machine learning C++ inference pipeline, enabling easy integration with LibTorch and ONNX Runtime and with examples for object detection, gesture classification and optical flow
- New fully integrated RAW EVT2 encoder
- Support of Ubuntu 24
Existing SDKPro features:
- License allowing commercial use
- Access to all advanced add-ons source code
- Access to online documentation, including a Knowledge Center filled with application notes, technical briefs, user guides, and other valuable resources
- Access to advanced add-ons: High-Speed Counting, Spatter Monitoring, Vibration Monitoring, Object Tracking, Optical Flow, Ultra-Slow Motion, Visualization tools, Machine Learning, Active Markers, Object 3D Pose Tracking, 3D Estimation
- Access to advanced tools: Metavision Studio, Event Simulator, format converters, file manipulators
- 2H Premium support
- Will include future updates
ABOUT PROPHESEE
Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems.
The company developed a breakthrough Event-based Vision approach to machine vision. This new vision category allows for significant reductions of power, latency and data processing requirements to reveal what was invisible to traditional frame-based sensors until now. Prophesee’s patented Metavision? sensors and algorithms mimic how the human eye and brain work to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, mobile and AR/VR. Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley.
The company is driven by a team of more than 100 visionary engineers, holds more than 50 international patents and is backed by leading international equity and corporate investors including 360 Capital Partners, European Investment Bank, iBionext, Intel Capital, Omnivision, Prosperity7 Ventures, Renault Group, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sinovation, Sony, Supernova Invest, Xiaomi.
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Prophesee’s Metavision? Image Deblur Solution for Smartphones is now production-ready, seamlessly optimized for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform
MWC reveal showcases the multi-year collaboration between Prophesee and Qualcomm resulting in next generation blur-free mobile photography, now ready for customer integration into Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 enabled devices.
PARIS, February 27, 2024 – Prophesee SA, inventor of the most advanced neuromorphic vision systems, today announced that the progress achieved through its collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has now reached production stage. A live demo during Mobile World Congress Barcelona is showcasing Prophesee’s native compatibility with premium Snapdragon? mobile platforms, bringing the speed, efficiency, and quality of neuromorphic-enabled vision to cameras in mobile devices.
Fig 1: Prophesee Metavision solution introduced on main stage at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit
Prophesee’s event-based Metavision sensors and AI, optimized for use with Snapdragon platforms now bring motion blur cancellation and overall image quality to unprecedented levels, especially in the most challenging scenarios faced by conventional frame-based RGB sensors, fast-moving and low-light scenes.
“We have made significant progress since we announced this collaboration in February 2023, achieving the technical milestones that demonstrate the impressive impact on image quality our event-based technology has in mobile devices containing Snapdragon mobile platforms. As a result, our Metavision Deblur solution has now reached production readiness,” said Luca Verre, CEO and co-founder of Prophesee. “We look forward to unleashing the next generation of Smartphone’s photography and video with Prophesee’s Metavision.”
“Qualcomm Technologies is thrilled to continue our strong collaboration with Prophesee, joining efforts to efficiently optimize Prophesee’s event-based Metavision technology for use with our flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform. This will deliver significant enhancements to image quality and bring new features enabled by event cameras’ shutter-free capability to devices powered by Snapdragon mobile platforms,” said Judd Heape, VP of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
HOW IT WORKS
Prophesee’s breakthrough sensors add a new sensing dimension to mobile photography. They change the paradigm in traditional image capture by focusing only on changes in a scene, pixel by pixel, continuously, at extreme speeds.
Each pixel in the Metavision sensor embeds a logic core, enabling it to act as a neuron. They each activate themselves intelligently and asynchronously depending on the number of photons they sense. A pixel activating itself is called an event. In essence, events are driven by the scene’s dynamics, not an arbitrary clock anymore, so the acquisition speed always matches the actual scene dynamics.
High-performance event-based deblurring is achieved by synchronizing a frame-based and Prophesee’s event-based sensor. The system then fills the gaps between and inside the frames with microsecond events to algorithmically extract pure motion information and repair motion blur.
Learn more: http://m.rfnf.cn/en/event-based-vision-mobile/
ABOUT PROPHESEE
Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems.
The company developed a breakthrough Event-Based Vision approach to computer vision. This new vision category allows for significant reductions of power, latency and data processing requirements to reveal what was invisible to traditional frame-based sensors until now. Prophesee’s patented Metavision? sensors and AI mimic how the human eye and brain work to dramatically improve efficiency in areas such as industrial automation, mobile, IoT, and AR/VR.
Prophesee is based in Paris, with local offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley. The company is driven by a team of more than 120 visionary engineers, holds more than 50 international patents and is backed by leading international equity and corporate investors including 360 Capital Partners, European Investment Bank, iBionext, Intel Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Sinovation, Supernova Invest, Will Semiconductor, Xiaomi.
Learn more: m.rfnf.cn/en
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