MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Technology is coming to smartphones that will allow the devices to recognize the images users capture via the phone’s camera.
Google is working with a Silicon Valley chip designer to let mobile devices do that kind of heavy computing internally rather than relying on remote data centers.
Movidius, which specializes in computer vision, has announced a collaboration aimed at bringing technology described as “deep learning” to handsets, The Wall Street Journal reported. A mobile app and image hosting service stores and analyzes images uploaded from smartphones.
With built-in image recognition, smartphones could identify objects in real time for a variety of applications, like identifying people to authorize transactions, aiding blind people and translating signs.
“By working with Movidius, we’re able to expand this technology beyond the data center and out into the real world, giving people the benefits of machine intelligence on their personal devices,” said Blaise Agϋera y Arcas, head of Google’s machine intelligence group in Seattle, in a statement.