| Meet the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Zongfu Yu Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
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Research area Extracting information and energy from light, using approaches from fundamental optical sciences that leverage machine learning and nanotechnologies. Research focus themes are 1) visual perception and 2) sustainability and energy.
What excites you about your work?
“Our research is centered around how we can build better cameras for machines. We’d like to build different cameras tailored for different applications and empower them with machine learning to make them more powerful and useful. For example, we have a patent with WARF on a CMOS hyper spectral camera. Traditional cameras try to reproduce what human eyes see, with three colors: red, green and blue. However, machines may need thousands of color bands—for example, to identify a material—and today’s cameras are not designed for that purpose.”
What do you hope to achieve?
“We hope to make it easy to build application-specific cameras. They are empowered by AI and provide much better vision for autonomous machines. Further down the road, we hope to provide a machine with vision functions that can adapt to its environment and goals.”
Zongfu is an expert in his field, and his innovations solve real problems industry is facing.
– Michael Carey, WARF, Licensing Manager
Want to learn more?
Michael Carey, [email protected], 608.960.9867