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by veeragoni 3708 days ago
How about this kind of extra processor comes in a mobile phone, which improves regular camera vision, all health sensors, better everything that we can do with mobile phones..
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It does.

The Google Tango uses the Myriad V1. The new tango to be released in may comes with this new V2 chip.

This is not at all the case. Deep learning can do some great things, but its not magic.
You don't necessarily need it, Qualcomm have already demonstrated (live) image classification on tablets and it runs on a Snapdragon CPU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkDSACXkErY

Someday they will be I'm sure. Probably part of the SoC.

But not yet, software is not ready for it yet.

Seems like the perfect opportunity to insert a plug for my project: http://liblikely.org/