Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1567 Entrepreneurs come to make a decision
Zhou Buqi and his party, with a total of three commercial vehicles, set off from Los Angeles to Lucasfilm.For him, he is more optimistic about the Silicon Valley and technological attributes behind the company; the people at Ziwei Star Global are more optimistic about the Hollywood attributes, and "Star Wars" is a super big IP.

"Star Wars" may not be comparable to "Lord of the Rings" on a global scale. In the United States, it can crush everything and has unparalleled earning power.

In a previous life, Disney bought Lucasfilm for only $40 billion.

That's a real bargain.

Even if it is a further premium, Zhou Buqi will take Lucasfilm down.However, George Lucas was a curmudgeon, and it was not easy to convince him.

Shen Xiangyang was in the car.

In the morning, as the newly promoted director of Ziwei Star Global, he attended the high-level meeting of Ziwei Star Global, and he was able to see Boss Zhou's knowledge and reputation in other fields.

Seeing Zhou Buqi, a young man becoming more and more mature and successful, Shen Xiangyang is like his elder, and his heart is full of relief.

Then, there are more thoughts in my mind.

This kid even knows movies!

Moreover, his theory seems to be more sophisticated than those of the most senior practitioners in Hollywood, and it is really looking at the big picture perspective of the future.

Coincidentally, when Shen Xiangyang was researching 3D visual effects recently, he encountered many difficulties, all of which were very complicated choices of cutting-edge technology.

Shen Xiangyang is getting older, not as bright as a young man's mind, and his imagination and innovation ability are no longer as good as they were at the peak of the 90s.Fortunately, he now has more experience. Top scientists like him usually lead a team instead of doing front-line research.He is responsible for pointing out the direction, and let the young doctors in the team further refine along this direction.

If the direction pointed out is wrong, not only will a lot of research and development funds be wasted, but also the golden period of creativity in the life of these outstanding young people in the team will be implicated and become useless.

Therefore, the choice of scientific research direction is the most important.

Shen Xiangyang has many inventions and creations in the field of artificial intelligence, but there are too many scientists in Silicon Valley. There are dozens or hundreds of people who have more invention patents and greater contributions than him.

But why is Shen Xiangyang more authoritative than them?

Because he was an executive in Silicon Valley many years ago, he can decide the direction, and most of the other scientists are just scientists, and they have to follow the direction of other people's projects to do research.

At this moment, Shen Xiangyang encountered difficulty in choosing a technical direction.

Zhou Buqi saw his hesitation, and asked with a smile, "Do you have anything to say?"

"Some confusion about [-]D face recognition." Shen Xiangyang glanced at him and said tentatively, "How about I tell you and you can analyze it for me?"

Zhou Buqi drew a black line on his forehead, "Are you sure?"

Shen Xiangyang said: "Let's discuss it, um... Just let me teach you a lesson about 3D technology, it will also be helpful for your future company decisions."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "I think it makes sense."

Shen Xiangyang said: "With the advent of computers and artificial intelligence, biometric-based identity authentication technologies have received more and more attention. There are many types. However, the most recognized by the industry are mainly three, fingerprint recognition, iris Recognition and face recognition. Fingerprint recognition is the easiest to implement, and there are already many mature solutions. As long as the compatibility between the fingerprint recognition chip and the hardware and software system of the smartphone is resolved, it will be possible in the short term.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, next year's Aster mobile phone must have a fingerprint unlocking function. We can't delay any longer, otherwise this innovation will definitely be taken away by other mobile phone manufacturers."

Shen Xiangyang went on to say: "Iris recognition is also a good direction. Although the accuracy is not as good as fingerprint recognition, it is more secure."

"It's more secure? How do you understand it?"

"Fingerprint recognition requires pressing your finger on it. If it is a public hardware recognition device, it will leave traces of fingerprints. As long as those who are interested can copy the fingerprints on it, there is a way to complete the authentication based on the fingerprints. The advantage of iris recognition is that it is contactless. , the disadvantage is that there are too many details to identify, and the accuracy rate is not high.”

"Iris recognition is not desirable, at least not suitable for consumer electronics. I don't want to point my eyeballs at the camera at close range. I'm afraid of being burned by infrared and ultraviolet rays. We don't do this direction." Zhou Buqi will do it soon A decision was made, "Our focus is on face recognition."

Shen Xiangyang said: "The accuracy of face recognition is worse than that of iris recognition."

Zhou Buqi said: "But face recognition technology has many advantages such as directness, friendliness, convenience, and compliance with people's cognition rules. This is the authentication method that best meets market demand."

Shen Xiangyang very much agrees with his understanding on the application level and market level, but he still needs to say more on the technical level, "Traditional two-dimensional face recognition has been done for many years, and there are too many disadvantages, such as changes in lighting, posture, expression, etc. may affect the recognition results. Therefore, three-dimensional recognition technology has emerged in the past two years."

"Is it done?"

"This direction is very cutting-edge, and most of it is still in the theoretical stage. Some people are very anxious to do applied research. In September last year, a Ph.D. I think the 9D face recognition method based on the Gabor wavelet transform of the [-]D face contour and the support vector machine classifier is too risky."

Shen Xiangyang shook his head secretly.

In his opinion, in this emerging field, what doctors should do is some low-level theoretical research, quote from many sources, do more experiments and discussions, and integrate various theoretical routes so that they can judge the pros and cons and bring benefits to the industry. for academic feedback.Instead of just looking for a theory that has not been verified by the market, doing research on the application layer in a hurry, and then taking out the research results to apply for patents and funding.

If the theoretical direction is wrong, even if a research result is made, it will be a worthless junk patent.

Not to mention wasting the country's research funds, it also delayed the great years of the doctors.

Of course, research on the application layer should be done by undergraduates and masters students, but more should be done by enterprises.

The experienced CTO in the company will choose a direction from many theoretical routes in the market, or simply let the entrepreneur directly make a decision to place a big bet that a certain direction will be a big success in the future!
If the bet is successful, the business will succeed.

If the bet fails, the theoretical direction is chosen wrongly, the research direction is wrongly chosen, and the company with almost weak strength is basically finished.

Just like in the field of smartphones, Apple chose face recognition, which soon became popular all over the world; Samsung bet on iris recognition, which was not recognized by the market, and several flagship models were wasted. Otherwise, the high-end machine market will be completely lost.

Zhou Buqi has seen a lot of things and got used to them. If he is powerless to change, he can only pretend to ignore them. "What about you? What theoretical research have you done?"

"Me?" Shen Xiangyang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'm not in the front line of scientific research now, how can I come up with any new theories. It's nothing more than making some judgments based on some basic theoretical directions in academia and industry, and choosing the best."

"Have you made your choice?"

"No, it's too difficult. It's only the initial stage of the industry, many theories have yet to be verified, and many routes are unclear. It is difficult to ensure that the right choice is made."

"Yes, there are difficulties in all walks of life."

Zhou Buqi deeply agrees with this.

This is true for technology, but why not for business?Even movies are the same. Universal Pictures researches 800 movie projects a year, and then picks out about 35 projects and makes them into movies.Which one to choose and which one to choose is a very difficult decision.

Shen Xiangyang turned to look at him, smiled and said, "How about I tell you?"

"say what?"

"Several basic theories of [-]D face recognition."

Zhou Buqi was about to faint, "Why are you telling me this? Can I understand?"

Shen Xiangyang half-jokingly said: "Every entrepreneur is a lucky one who is cared for by God, and your luck is particularly good. When encountering differences in technical routes, the technical committee cannot make a decision, and the final decision must be made by the entrepreneur. Even if this Entrepreneurs are laymen who don’t understand technology.”

Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing and said: "Yes, I know that there are several entrepreneurs in China who make decisions by flipping coins, and they are completely resigned to fate."

In many cases, the major decisions of enterprises are really not professional or unprofessional.

An enterprise is the career of an entrepreneur and the career of a professional manager.It is better to bet on the luck of entrepreneurs than to bet on the expertise of professionals, who decide life and death.

However, Shen Xiangyang is not a professional manager. He watched Ziweixing grow step by step into the towering tree it is today. This is also his career.

"Let me tell you briefly, see if you have any ideas. It's best to have an idea, but if you don't have an idea... I'll visit some industry experts and look at the situation."

"alright."

"Well...the current 3D face recognition technology in the world mainly has three theoretical directions." Shen Xiangyang really regarded Zhou Buqi as a god, and he really talked about a very profound academic theory, "A kind of The theory is TOF technology, which transmits modulated light pulses through infrared transmitters, and after encountering object reflection, uses the receiver to receive the reflected light pulses, and calculates the distance to the object based on the round-trip time of the light pulses.”

"Oh."

Zhou Buqi's reaction was flat and he couldn't understand anything.

Shen Xiangyang went on to say: "One theory is binocular technology, which is similar to human eyes, relying on the parallax between the two pictures taken to calculate depth, also known as passive binocular depth camera technology. This technology Lucas Films The industry is top in the world, and "Avatar" was shot on the basis of this technical theory."

"Avatar!"

Zhou Buqi's eyes lit up, and he almost agreed.

The effect of "Avatar" is amazing!

This is enough to show that binocular technology is a super 3D technology.

However, Shen Xiangyang's next sentence made him change his mind.

"The third theory is structured light technology. It is necessary to project light with certain structural characteristics onto the object to be photographed through an infrared laser, and then use a special infrared camera to collect the reflected structured light pattern, and measure the depth according to the principle of triangulation. Calculation of information..."

"Structured light?"

Hearing this familiar word, Zhou Buqi suddenly recovered from his fantasy of "Avatar".

Depend on!
Knew it!
This crucial route decision really has to be made by the big boss himself!
Even if Shen Xiangyang is a world-class scientist!

(End of this chapter)