Vanderbilt Scientists Invent Nano Meta-Imager Lens to Enable Faster, Lower Power Machine Vision
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Vanderbilt researchers created a nanostructured "meta-imager" lens that can replace traditional optics in machine vision applications.
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The meta-imager encodes information more efficiently, enabling higher speed imaging with less power consumption.
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In tests, the meta-imager achieved 98.6% accuracy recognizing handwritten digits and 88.8% accuracy identifying clothing types.
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The compact, efficient design could have applications in AI, security, medicine, government/defense.
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The meta-imager works as a front-end to offload computationally expensive operations into the optics rather than the digital backend.