Machine vision: the next frontier for CMOS image sensors

摘要

The technology advances of CMOS image sensors are unstoppable, literally. After redefining mobile phone designs for more than a decade, they have reached the doorsteps of artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as machine vision, object detection and recognition, and deep learning.The availability of global shutter image sensors providing clear, sharp images at 4K camera resolutions is opening doors to new uses cases including 3D modeling, agricultural drones, industrial automation, and robotics. Agricultural drones, for example, capture high-resolution color images of crops and perform field monitoring in real-time.