Ensuring the integrity of integrated circuits

Q: Tell us about your work on trusted microelectronics. David Crandall: Our role in this project is to use computer vision and machine learning techniques to help ensure the integrity of the supply chain around microelectronics. One way is to use computer vision to inspect integrated circuits to see whether there is something suspicious that might suggest they are damaged or counterfeit. The goal of computer vision is for computers to be able to understand the visual world the way people do. Computers have been able to take and store pictures for decades, but they haven't been able to know what is in a photo -- what objects and people are in it, what is going on, and what is about to happen.