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The Tencent DeepGaze AI camera provides retailers with data about how shoppers move around their stores and the number of shoppers in stores at various times of day. The camera unit is powered by the Intel Movidius Myriad 2 vision processing unit. (Credit: Tencent)
Chip maker Intel and Tencent will collaborate on artificial intelligence (AI) cameras for retail.
This was announced at the Tencent Global Partner Conference. Remi El-Ouazzane, Vice President and COO of Intel’s AI Products Group, announced new artificial intelligence collaborations with Tencent YouTu Lab: DeepGaze, an AI camera, and YouBox, an AI box.
“With artificial intelligence, enterprises can gain new insights about their customers to both elevate the users’ experience and drive business transformation. Tencent’s new AI camera solutions take advantage of powerful Intel Movidius Myriad technology to enable deep neural networks to run directly on the cameras, providing real-time and actionable data for various businesses, including retail and smart buildings.”
– Remi El-Ouazzane, Intel Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the AI Products Group
How Intel Powers DeepGaze
Powered by the Intel Movidius Myriad 2 vision processing unit (VPU), the DeepGaze AI camera provides retail businesses with data about how shoppers move around the store and the number of shoppers in the store at various times of day. The smart cameras handle the pre-processing and object detection, with relevant data transferred to Tencent’s cloud, based on Intel Xeon Scalable processors, for deeper analytics.
How Intel Powers YouBox
Retailers with older in-store camera systems can upgrade to intelligent analytics by connecting up to 16 cameras to the YouTu AI box to add AI visual intelligence to their systems. YouBox is powered by the Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU, which features a dedicated hardware accelerator for neural network inference.
Customer analytics, enabled by AI, can help retailers predict sales performance based on trends and real-time tracking of shoppers’ activity and product turnover, said Intel.
