DeepGaze (the AI camera for shops)

2018: Announcement

At the beginning of November, 2018 the Intel corporation together with the Chinese Internet giant Tencent provided the AI camera for calculation of visitors and the server for local processing of AI algorithms. Both products held for use in the field of retail are equipped with chips for processing of visual information (Visual Processing Unit, VPU) the Intel Movidius Myriad series and are developed in the research laboratory Tencent YouTu Lab occupied with AI technologies, such as computer vision and machine learning.

The AI camera DeepGaze allows to monitor movements of buyers in shop. The device for all day counts the number of buyers about racks with different goods and will recognize objects. Some of transactions are executed directly by the camera, and a part - in Tencent cloud using the Intel Xeon processor Scalable.

AI camera DeepGaze

As observers of VentureBeat explained, in DeepGaze the same processor of machine vision of Movidius Myriad 2, as well as in the cameras Google Clip and Flir Firefly and also in the quadcopter DJI Phantom 4 is used. The VPU chip allows to process and interpret the visual information arriving on the device that provides a possibility of forecasting.

In addition to the AI camera the YouBox server with the Movidius Myriad X VPU chip for local processing of AI algorithms was also announced. Using AI systems which are built in at the hardware level it is capable to accept in real time video signal from cameras which number can reach 16 and draw useful conclusions on the basis of this information.

YouBox server

In particular, thanks to YouBox shops will be able to predict indicators of sales and a goods turnover, to timely buy the necessary products, without involving for this purpose employees, Intel and Tencent claim.^[1]

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