On September 6, 2018, the first Computer Vision Summit was held in Shanghai, jointly organized by Tencent Youtu and the AaAS official journal Science series. At the meeting, Tang Daosheng, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent, announced that Tencent Youtu Laboratory was upgraded to Tencent Computer vision R&D Center, focusing on and strengthening investment in the field of computer vision; At the same time, Tencent Youtu Laboratory also officially announced that it had reached a strategic cooperation with Science, and explored the integration of global scientific research resources through academic bonuses, industry-university-research exchanges and other forms to carry out extensive cooperation in the frontier research field of artificial intelligence.
Zhang Ying, chief engineer of Shanghai Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission, who was invited to attend the summit, said, “As China’s largest economic center, Shanghai is making full efforts to promote the construction of ‘four centers’ and a science and innovation center with global influence. In this process, AI has a lot to offer. We hope Tencent will take Youtu Lab as an important carrier to fully participate in the construction of Shanghai’s ARTIFICIAL intelligence industry, so that technology application can be popularized and scientific and technological progress can benefit all people.”
Tencent continues to increase input in the field of computer vision without KPI
Computer vision is one of the most important branches of artificial intelligence and plays a key role in the development of artificial intelligence. Tencent senior executive vice president Tang Daosheng believes that if we make an important breakthrough in the field of computer vision, or will promote artificial intelligence ushered in a qualitative change.
At the summit, Tang Daosheng announced that youtu Laboratory would be upgraded to Tencent computer vision RESEARCH and development Center, continue to increase the investment in computer vision technology research and development, and keep enough patience for basic technology research, without KPI. In the future, Tencent will further unite with the global industry, academia and research forces to continue to promote the development of computer vision technology. At the same time, the technical achievements made by Youtu will also be open to upstream and downstream partners through Tencent cloud platform.
Tang daosheng said that Tencent is a beneficiary of the development of Internet science and technology, and its continuous investment and exploration in the field of technology is not only the need of its own long-term development, but also the responsibility of an Internet technology company.
Tencent Youtu development strategy: one core, four directions, ten fields, let science and technology benefit the people
Outstanding scientists Gu Jiaya tencent optimal figure laboratory at the summit has been clear about the optimal figure lab to plan for the future development of the core strategy – as the core, the computer vision around social entertainment, industrial production and social progress and explore the four direction, go deep into the including medical, autopilot, industrial, retail, office, cultural, social, and other areas of the top ten of the specific application, Accelerate the transformation of research results, so that science and technology benefit the people.
Tencent Yutu Lab, founded in 2012, is one of Tencent’s three artificial intelligence LABS. Since it established, tencent optimal figure has been adhering to the “technology and the scene depth fusion” concept of development, in addition to QQ, QQ space such as tencent’s own dozens of product lines in the fall to the ground, also successfully for the Banks, the fujian provincial public security, motion, China unicom, the daily fresh, huaxing photoelectric, China southern power grid and other output ability of AI. At present, Tencent Yutu technology has been widely used in medical, retail, industrial, cultural and other fields.
In the medical field, as one of the core technical support parties of Tencent Miying, Tencent Yutu has been deeply engaged in research and development and application exploration in the field of medical image recognition, constantly improving the technical level of medical AI, making significant progress in the early screening of lung cancer and diabetic retinopathy, and entering into large-scale clinical pre-trials. Conference, optimal figure lab and tencent find shadow also revealed that is working with the Chinese academy of medical sciences cancer hospital epidemiology research you-lin qiao, professor cooperation, promote the early cervical cancer screening AI system research, create a cervical cancer intelligence screening tools, auxiliary gynecologist quickly identify the pathological changes of cervical lesion before and designated areas, so as to formulate the corresponding biopsy and treatment plan.
In the retail field, Tencent has cooperated with many offline merchants to realize facial recognition payment, greatly improving users’ store shopping experience. Recently, Tencent Youtu, together with Tencent Cloud and Daily Yousun, launched the latest smart container solution. Based on the commodity identification technology of the research center, it can realize the smooth shopping experience of automatic order settlement and “pick up and go” after the door is closed, with an accuracy rate of more than 99%.
In the field of industry, Youtu Laboratory assisted Huaxing Optoelectronics in more than 100 industrial quality inspections through CV, and established replicable industrial automation inspection system on intelligent panel inspection. At the same time, the grid intelligent inspection conducted in cooperation with China Southern Power Grid co., LTD., cooperated with uav to automatically locate key components through image recognition technology and identify and mark equipment defects, which increased the efficiency by 3 times compared with traditional manual inspection.
Tencent Yutu has entered into strategic cooperation with Science journals to promote the development of computer vision around the world
During the meeting, vice President of tencent beams etc on behalf of the American association for the advancement of Science and figure tencent official publication journal of Science (Science) series for strategic cooperation signing, the two sides will reach a long-term strategic partnership, sharing resources and information in the field of computer vision, through the barrier-free cooperation between production, to promote the development of computer vision technology.
Bill Moran, publisher of the Science journal series, said: “AAAS and Science are looking for partners who share our mission and vision. We believe in working together to promote science and innovation for the benefit of people around the world. As our partner in computer vision, Tencent Yutu shares this vision with us, and we will work together to host conferences, establish awards, and establish multimedia channels to promote communication and innovation in this frontier area. Our common goal is to bring together thought leaders in computer vision to create a forum open to all. Hopefully they will serve as a platform to drive innovation, which in turn will be translated into practical applications and policies for the benefit of society.”
In addition to jointly organized professional meetings, both sides of the future will focus on computer vision, to explore through fellowships, a variety of forms such as production, exchange, integration of global scientific research resources, extensive cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence cutting-edge research, including not limited to cooperation seminar for “medical AI” theme network, sets up the global joint computer vision awards and fellowships, etc.
Tencent Yutu Lab will continue to invest in AI technology, unite with the world’s top partners, linked academia, government and enterprises to promote the development of computer vision technology, technology application and popularization of scientific and technological knowledge, so that computer vision ability can help us “see farther” in the future.