With the development of technology, innovation has become the key to the success or failure of a technology enterprise. In recent years, many domestic IT companies have established research institutes for better innovation.
Speaking of research institutes, we have to mention Intel Research Institute. In order to promote technological innovation, Intel has established a department dedicated to innovation very early. It is as small as a chip that can make butterflies flying, and as large as it can run tens of millions of servers. Intel Research Institute is actually doing all the chips.
In China, Intel has also established Intel China Research Institute to continuously promote technological innovation. Today, we are moving towards an interconnected future full of artificial intelligence. So what is the Intel China Research Institute doing?
Innovation for the future
As one of the three "regional research institutions" established by Intel Research Institute overseas, Intel Labs China (ILC) is currently focusing on researching key technologies related to future autonomous systems, including artificial intelligence algorithms , Autonomous system platform and intelligent infrastructure.
Song Jiqiang, Dean of Intel China Research Institute, said, “Intel Research is more concerned about what kind of major technological changes will occur in the next three to five years. On the one hand, it looks at how to help existing products through forward-looking research on technology. On the other hand, Intel is trying to see how disruptive technologies Intel may have in the future. These technologies cannot be missed or missed by Intel. These are all at the level of predicting the future."
The Intel Research Institute adopts an industrial research institute model. The so-called Industrial Research Institute does not use the publication of papers as its main indicator, nor does it compete with everyone in academia. It is not Intel’s innovation in theory and how many papers it has published. The indicators of the research institute and Intel's indicators are breakthrough technologies, and these technologies can be truly applied to products, to change the technical state of some products, and do our best to promote the technology to practicality.
Experts from Intel China Research Institute focused on the latest technological progress in three areas. The first is to help achieve realistic and cool facial effects in terms of face analysis and emotion recognition technology. The second is in terms of deep neural network compression technology. The third is in the aspect of multi-modal image and video analysis, so that the computer does not need to be "hand-in-hand" by people, and it can be done by analogy.
Accelerate the integration of communication and computing
In terms of smart infrastructure, Intel’s research is mainly aimed at supporting technologies that ensure the smooth operation of large-scale smart networked devices in the future, including wireless communication technology and smart storage technology. The former studies MIMO technology and mobile edge computing technology at the network access end; the latter studies the use of Intel’s latest 3D storage technology and an intelligent solution built by FPGA to provide technologies with high throughput, low latency, and potential for value-added services.
Intel introduced how to create a high-quality VR experience with the integration of communication and computing for the 5G next-generation communication network. Currently, in order to meet the demand for high-quality virtual reality experience, the current HD experience needs to achieve a resolution increase of 25-40 times. To this end, Intel hopes to achieve network expansion in an end-to-end manner through the integration of computing and network, so as to create a remote immersive interactive experience.
Intel demonstrated an ultra-high-resolution panoramic video capture system, which is mainly suitable for wireless VR devices. Users can watch panoramic video immersively or participate in VR game interaction. It uses the ISP bus to synchronize the camera shutter, processes the sampled images through a distributed architecture, and uses the optical flow method to stitch panoramic videos and interpolate stereo information. The system also uses Intel's core GPU to compress images with high performance, renders the host to the remote terminal through wireless transmission, and uses OFFLOAD technology to reduce display delay.
With these technologies, TV viewers can feel the experience of watching the Olympics in front row seats even at home, or choose different viewing angles in the venue.
Autonomous system, creating a heroic era of robots
Autonomous system is a research direction related to artificial intelligence. The goal of Intel China Research Institute is to launch a set of autonomous intelligent robot development platform based on CPU+FPGA heterogeneous computing to help researchers develop based on this platform. The reason for introducing heterogeneous platforms is that robot research needs to introduce both time and space computing models.
Based on this goal, the HERO Intelligent Robot Open Platform (Heterogeneous Extensible Robot Open Platform) came into being. It is a set of low-power, high-performance, and small-sized heterogeneous system platform solutions designed by Intel China Research Institute for intelligent robots. It can process large amounts of data in real time and run a variety of intelligent algorithms.
Currently, Intel China Research Institute announced the launch of a new partnership program around the HERO platform. Around this plan, Intel China Research Institute is committed to working with industry-level, application-level and ecological-level partners to build a complete, efficient and open platform through R&D cooperation, academic innovation and industry demonstrations, and to continuously expand applications Scenarios accelerate the implementation of technology and products.
In conclusion, the Intel Research Institute not only focuses on future revolutionary scientific and technological research, but also carries the mission of transforming research results into innovative products globally and locally in China. Facing the future, I believe that with Intel’s innovative spirit, it will further promote the development of products and society, so that the advancement of science and technology will benefit every citizen of the world.