Fabless semiconductor agency Himax Applied sciences has introduced that its WiseEye2 on-device synthetic intelligence (AI) imaginative and prescient processor is to energy Seeed Studio’s upcoming Grove Imaginative and prescient AI Module V2 — on account of be demonstrated on the Shopper Electronics Present (CES) subsequent week.
“At Seeed Studio, we’re obsessed with placing know-how inside straightforward attain, particularly with a concentrate on imaginative and prescient AI improvements,” says Seeed’s Joey Jiang of the businesses’ collaboration. “We’re enthusiastic about Himax Applied sciences’ launch of the WiseEye2 HX6538. This collaboration amplifies our efforts in visible machine studying, and we’re proud to face as companions with Himax.”
Himax and Seeed Studio have introduced a partnership to ship a low-power high-performance tinyML gadget for battery-powered pc imaginative and prescient tasks: the Grove Imaginative and prescient AI Module V2. (📷: Seeed Studio)
“Our collaboration with Seeed Studio propels the WE2 know-how right into a broader market scope, thereby pioneering development within the discipline of endpoint AI units,” provides Mark Chen, vice chairman of sensible sensing at Himax. “With its excellent AI inference energy, ultra-low energy consumption, and knowledge security measures, WE2 has grow to be the best choice for improvement of endpoint AI purposes.”
The WiseEye 2 HX6538, designed to ship 32 instances the efficiency and 50 instances the vitality effectivity of Himax’s last-generation WiseEye design, pairs a pair of Arm Cortex-M55 microcontroller cores with an Ethos-U55 for acceleration of on-device machine studying and synthetic intelligence workloads. Seeed’s Grove Imaginative and prescient AI Module V2 takes the WiseEye 2 and locations it on a thumb-sized improvement board with a MIPI Digicam Serial Interface (CSI), on-board microphone, and microSD slot for storage.
The module helps a spread of machine studying fashions, together with the output of Seeed’s personal no-code SenseCraft AI platform. (📷: Seeed Studio)
Feminine pin headers on the highest of the board present assist for Seeed’s XIAO vary of improvement boards, whereas the CSI connector is suitable with the favored Raspberry Pi Digicam Module household. There’s assist for a spread of on-device pc imaginative and prescient fashions, Seeed guarantees, alongside compatibility with the corporate’s SenseCraft AI platform for code-free deployment. The WiseEye 2 chip processes the video on-device, then sends the outcomes to a bunch machine or XIAO microcontroller over I2C or UART — with an Arduino library serving to to course of the information stream.
Himax and Seeed Studio are to reveal the Grove Imaginative and prescient AI Module V2 on the Shopper Electronics Present (CES) subsequent week, with events invited to the Venetian Exhibit Suite Sales space 34-208; whereas pricing has not but been introduced, extra info on utilizing the module is accessible on the Seeed wiki.