Press Release | Maxim Integrated and Xailient Collaborate to Build the Fastest, Lowest Power IoT Face Detection Solution

The MAX78000 AI microcontroller combined with Xailient’s Detectum™ neural network technology can detect and lock faces in videos and images in just 12ms

Home cameras, industrial smart security cameras, and face recognition terminals in the retail industry are mostly battery-powered. Similar AI systems have strict requirements on power consumption to ensure that the battery can support the longest working time after charging. In addition to supporting stand-alone operation, Maxim Integrated's microcontrollers and Xailient's neural network technology can greatly improve the overall system power efficiency and extend battery life in edge computing/cloud computing hybrid systems. Such applications use a low-power "listening" mode to wake up more complex system operations when a face target is detected.

Xailient's Detectum™ neural network solution includes focus, zoom and visual wake-up technology, which is 76 times faster than traditional software solutions in detecting and locking faces in videos and images, and has the same or even higher detection accuracy. In addition, its flexible networking function can be extended to applications beyond facial recognition, such as livestock inventory and monitoring, parking space occupancy, inventory level monitoring, etc.

• Longest Battery Life/Highest Energy Efficiency: Xailient’s neural network technology greatly optimizes computing efficiency, while Maxim Integrated’s ultra-low-power MAX78000 microcontroller provides more flexible low-power sleep modes. The combination of the two allows edge computing/cloud computing platforms powered by coin-cell batteries to operate for years.

• Fast calculation improves detection accuracy: Speed ​​is a key indicator of AI. With faster reasoning calculations, it is possible to respond to system requests in real time; multiple fast reasoning calculations can also be combined to improve recognition accuracy. It only takes 12ms to complete face detection in an image, providing users with flexibility in balancing response time and detection accuracy.

• The MAX78000 is priced at $8.50 (1,000-up, FOB USA) and is available from Maxim Integrated's website and authorized distributors.

• The MAX78000EVKIT# evaluation kit is available for $168.

• For more information on Detectum neural networks, models, tools, services, and focus, zoom, and visual wake word technologies, please contact Xailient directly.

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Xailient is a computer vision artificial intelligence (AI) software development company dedicated to integrating cloud AI technology into ultra-small devices and chips at the edge. Xailient has built the world's smallest and fastest object detectors, enabling the development of small form factor devices that run at ultra-low power. Xailient focuses on the development of TinyML computer vision technology for IoT devices, radically improving detection accuracy compared to other solutions. Based on this, Xailient's software technology makes high-precision, real-time computer vision applications easy and efficient. For example, a button battery can power the most efficient facial recognition AI software for a year. With Xailient's world's fastest computer vision AI, you can quickly lock on to your target. For more information, please visit https://www.xailient.com/.

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