Global Big Data Conference

In the race to enable manufacturing plants to increase production in the face of an intermittent human workforce, manufacturers are looking at how to supplement their cameras with AI to give human inspectors the ability to spot defective products immediately and correct the problem. While machine vision has been around for more than 60 years, the recent surge in the popularity of deep learning has elevated this sometimes misunderstood technology to the attention of major manufacturers globally. As CEO of a deep learning software company, I've seen how deep learning is a natural next step from machine vision, and has the potential to drive innovation for manufacturers. How does deep learning differ from machine vision, and how can manufacturers leverage this natural evolution of camera technology to cope with real-world demands? In the 1960s, several groups of scientists, many of them in the Boston area, set forth to solve "the machine vision problem."