Systems that incorporate vision capabilities have grown more sophisticated over time, such as Intel’s Myriad X, but they’re not always easier to implement. Graphical processing units (GPUs) and CPUs have been harnessed to process raw information and then squeeze out key attributes from which a system can make decisions. Relatively new in the field are vision processors, devices optimized for exactly these kinds of machine-vision tasks.
With capable vision processors and increasingly sophisticated software, applications like facial recognition, object detection, and pose estimation, among other challenging systems, can become reliable functions.