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Computing with a camera

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Photonic computing devices are a compelling alternative to conventional computing setups for machine learning applications, as they are nonlinear, fast and easy to parallelize. Recent work demonstrates the potential of these optical systems to process and classify human motion from video.

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Fig. 1: The reservoir computing setup of Antonik and colleagues.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Kathy Lüdge

  2. Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    André Röhm

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Lüdge, K., Röhm, A. Computing with a camera. Nat Mach Intell 1, 551–552 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0124-2

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