An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Northeastern have built a device that can recognize „millions of colors“ using new artificial intelligence techniques—a massive step, they say, in the field of machine vision, .
October 6, 2022
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Northeastern have built a device that can recognize „millions of colors“ using new artificial intelligence techniques—a massive step, they say, in the field of machine vision, a highly specialized space with broad applications for a range of technologies.
The machine, which researchers call „A-Eye,“ is capable of analyzing and processing color far more accurately than existing machines, according to a paper detailing the research published in Materials Today. The ability of machines to detect, or „see,“ color is an increasingly important feature as industry and society more broadly becomes more automated, says Swastik Kar, associate professor of physics at Northeastern and co-author of the research.
„In the world of automation, shapes and colors are the most commonly used items by which a machine can recognize objects,“ Kar says.
The breakthrough is twofold. Researchers were able to engineer two-dimensional material whose special quantum properties, when built into an optical window used to let light into the machine, can process a rich diversity of color with „very high accuracy“—something practitioners in the field haven’t been able to achieve before.
Additionally, A-Eye is able to „accurately recognize and reproduce ’seen‘ colors with zero deviation from their original spectra“ thanks, also, to the machine-learning algorithms developed by a team of AI researchers, helmed by Sarah Ostadabbas, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern.
