AI at the Edge: Motorola Solutions and Neurala to Work Together on Intelligence for Cameras

SINGAPORE — July 19,
2017 — Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) announced
today that it will work with artificial intelligence (AI) company Neurala to
develop intelligent cameras for public safety users. The goal is to enable
police officers to more efficiently search for objects or persons of interest,
such as missing children and suspects.The companies will work together to integrate Neurala’s AI capabilities with
Motorola Solutions’ software and cameras, including its Si500 body-worn camera.
The integration will create intelligent cameras that can learn “at the edge”
and automatically search for persons or objects of interest – significantly
reducing the time and effort required to find a missing child or suspicious
object in environments that are often crowded or chaotic.

“We see powerful potential for artificial intelligence to improve safety and
efficiency for our customers, which in turn helps create safer communities,”
said Paul Steinberg, Chief Technology Officer, Motorola Solutions. “But
applying AI in a public safety setting presents unique challenges. Neurala’s
‘edge learning’ capabilities will help us explore solutions for a variety of
public safety workflows such as finding a missing child or investigating an
object of interest, such as a bicycle.”

Neurala’s “at the edge” learning capabilities help solve some of the biggest
challenges that come with real-time applications of AI. Neurala’s
patent-pending technology provides an alternative to lengthy training for the
AI engine, so that, for example, the intelligent camera “learns” to identify
the person or object of interest. This feature, known as incremental learning,
also reduces the risk of “catastrophic forgetting,” which occurs when a neural
network forgets its previous training. Incremental learning also enables
enhanced accuracy and latency for real-time public safety applications of AI.

“Neurala’s technology enables AI applications to learn at the edge after their
deployment,” Steinberg continued. “This can unlock new applications for public
safety users. In the case of a missing child, imagine if the parent showed the
child’s photo to a nearby police officer on patrol. The officer’s body-worn
camera sees the photo, the AI engine ‘learns’ what the child looks like and
deploys an engine to the body-worn cameras of nearby officers, quickly creating
a team searching for the child.”

“Neurala’s L-DNN (Lifelong Deep Neural Network) technology eliminates the risk
of ‘catastrophic forgetting,’ the number-one problem limiting the growth of
deep learning neural networks for real-time use. Neurala’s technology solves
the problem instantly at the device, accelerating the development of new AI
applications that can learn at the edge after their deployment,” explained
Massimiliano “Max” Versace, Neurala CEO. ”Working with Motorola Solutions to explore
public safety applications of local, real-time AI leverages the power of
artificial intelligence for the greater good.”

Neurala will initially work with Motorola Solutions to build a prototype that
allows for real-time learning for a person of interest search. Motorola
Solutions Venture Capital, the company’s strategic investment group, was a lead investor in Neurala’s Series A funding announced
in January.

About Motorola Solutions 
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communication solutions and services that help public safety and commercial
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About Neurala 
Neurala, Inc. (http://www.neurala.com) is a software company
that developed The Neurala Brain—deep learning neural network software that
makes smart products like robots, drones, toys, self-driving cars and
smart cameras more autonomous, engaging and useful. Neurala provides
off-the-shelf and customized solutions ranging from high-end
applications to inexpensive everyday consumer products. With the Neurala
Brains for Bots Software Development Kit (SDK) and an ordinary camera, products
can learn people and objects on the fly, recognize them in a video
stream, find them in the video, and track them as they
move. The Neurala Brain is based on technology originally developed for NASA
and the U.S. Air Force. Follow Neurala on Twitter at @Neurala and on Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.