AI in the edge
"Improving edge device environments through the co-optimization between power efficient Al processors and advanced machine learning tasks with as purpose to increase the real-time performance, reliable low-latency communication, power-efficient processing and data security."
Powerful smartphones, cars and robots can take over tasks from the cloud (edge computing), leading to faster decisions, lower energy consumption and better privacy protection. This opens new possibilities for AI applications based on intelligent systems and components with low power, often on batteries.
The research will lead to application-oriented cases far ahead of the state of the art for distributed and hierarchical AI systems, advanced signal processing, and learning algorithms for extracting actionable information from the edge.
| Rudy Lauwereins | imec | Management team |
| Axel Nackaerts | imec | Management team and WP1 Lead: Use Cases |
| Bart Dhoedt | UGent - IDLab | WP2 Lead: Inter-device Algorithms |
| Wilfried Philips | UGent - IPI | WP3 Lead: Intra-Device Algorithms |
| Peter Debacker | imec | WP4 Lead: Software Tool Suites, Software to Hardware Mapping |
| Marian Verhelst | KULeuven - MICAS | WP5 Lead: Extreme Edge Hardware |
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