Macnica (hereinafter Macnica; headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture; President: Kazumasa Hara; capital: 11,194 million yen), a total service/solution provider in semiconductors, networks, cybersecurity, and AI/IoT, is pleased to announce that it has launched a "BrainTech" initiative to accelerate the social implementation of AI, and will provide solutions from InnerEye Ltd. (hereinafter "InnerEye"; headquartered in Herzliya, Israel; CEO: Uri Antman), a world leader in "BrainTech."
As the social implementation of AI progresses, the challenges in promoting its introduction are also becoming apparent. For example, training data for developing AI models is insufficient, annotation costs are high, or AI results are black-Box. In order to efficiently increase training data, which is essential for machine learning algorithms, it is important to recognize patterns by importing tagged data. Therefore, in AI development, it is essential to prepare data with tags attached, and annotation, which tags data, is an essential process in machine learning.
InnerEye's technology is a combination of brain waves and AI, and enables efficient annotation, which is essential for machine learning, which is essential for AI. By combining humans and AI, we can increase the potential of AI by converting human knowledge, experiences, and perceptions into data using the power of technology, even if we do not have a large amount of training data. "BrainTech," which understands the activities of the human brain and utilizes that knowledge in business, has the potential to become a detonator that accelerates the social implementation of AI.
Macnica provides new cutting-edge technologies and solutions for Society 5.0, the fourth industrial revolution driven by future digitalization. We believe that "AI" is an indispensable cutting-edge technology in these fields, and have been providing various AI-related solutions for several years. Now, Macnica will begin its "BrainTech" initiative, which combines the brain and technology.
Furthermore, by collaborating with Macnica 's overseas bases in Germany and Brazil, centering on Inner Eye's solutions, in addition to Japan, we will be able to share case studies and technology introduction information acquired on a global basis, and utilize it globally in a way that only Macnica can. By elevating it to intelligence, we will accelerate the construction of solutions to common challenges. We quickly deploy excellent solutions created in each country, from Japan to overseas, and from overseas to Japan, supporting solution implementation and promoting early resolution of issues.
What is BrainTech
"BrainTech" is a coined word that combines "Brain" and "Technology", and refers to technologies and services based on brain science. It is a new initiative that connects objects and the human brain, and is attracting attention as a technology that will play an important role in promoting social innovation and digital transformation. In 2013, former President Obama of the United States and former President of Israel Shimon Peres launched the project, which has produced various results. Similarly, in Japan, various neuroscience research has been conducted, and the results of research have been published as services.
About Inner Eye Solutions
Inner Eye's solution, which provides a platform based on the epoch-making "BrainTech" that allows AI to learn the judgment of a person based on the activity status of the person's brain, is an EEG (electroencephalogram) It is possible to capture the situation of activities and have AI learn human recognition and judgment in a short period of time.
This solution has the following features:
1. Reduced annotation time
Presenting image data to a person, capturing the person's judgment and judgment on the image data from brain waves, and tagging the data. The time it takes from the generation of brain waves to tagging is extremely fast, and tagging can usually be done at a speed of 4 image data/second.
2. Annotation based on human judgment
The person's unique judgment is judged based on brain waves and tagged. Based on judgments based on the experience and knowledge of experts, and especially intuitive judgments, AI can be made to learn so-called "to understand when the viewer sees it".
3. Shorter learning time
Differences in brain waves can be seen in cases where we are not confident in our decisions, or when we are fatigued and may be slow to make decisions. This difference is used to generate the confidence factor at the same time as the tag data is generated from the EEG. Confidence is used for AI learning, and for tags with low confidence, AI's learning impact can be reduced. You can avoid AI accuracy degradation due to tag errors, which leads to a reduction in learning time.
In addition, image data with low confidence can be fed back and reviewed again.
The outline of AI learning method by this solution is shown below.
At the moment, it is an AI learning platform that combines image files and brain waves, but in the future, we will also focus on developing a platform that simultaneously learns from sound and video data, and image and sound data.
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Field of application
Consideration of adoption and demonstration experiments has begun in the following fields.
-Security checks at the facility
- Diagnosis assistance for medical injuries
- Assistance with visual inspections performed at the factory
- Growth prediction and quality prediction in agriculture
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About InnerEye Ltd.
Inner Eye was founded in Israel in 2014. Based on the long-term research by Professor Amir, who conducts electronic computer engineering research at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, and Professor Leon, who conducts research on cognitive neuroscience at Hebrew University, the Israel Ministry of Defense Research and Development Agency (MAFAT) ) was developed jointly with Inner Eye's products are being adopted, tested and studied in various fields such as security checks, visual inspections in factories, medical diagnostic assistance, and realization of the right person in the right place in HR.
About Macnica
Since its establishment in 1972, Macnica has provided cutting-edge semiconductors, electronic devices, networks, and cybersecurity products with added technological value. In recent years, we have been developing new businesses in fields such as AI/IoT, autonomous driving, and robots, based on our traditional strengths of global cutting-edge technology sourcing and technology planning capabilities. Going forward, under the slogan "Co.Tomorrowing," we will connect cutting-edge technology and Macnica 's intelligence to provide unique services and solutions, creating social value and contributing to the development of future society. . the Company company is headquartered in Yokohama and operates a global business with 84 locations in 24 countries around the world.
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