2DNEURALVISION’s first kick-off meeting
The Horizon Europe project 2DNeuralVision celebrated its kick-off meeting on the 9th and 10th of October 2023, hosted by the coordinator ICFO at its headquarters in Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
This project is funded by the European Union with 5.5 million euros with the purpose of developing the enabling photonic and electronic integrated circuit components to achieve a novel computer vision system that could be used under any weather and any light conditions, while also keeping low power consumption.
The whole consortium was present at the kick-off, including leading European organisations like QURV Technologies (ES), BLACK – Black Semiconductor GMBH (DE), UHEI – Heidelberg University (DE), IMEC (BE), Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft (DE), and FI Group (PT).
The event propelled the first contact between all partners, who shared their technical backgrounds and presented their expected contributions to 2DNeuralVision.
The meetings ended with a Lab tour, followed by a planning of the upcoming activities and deliverables.
Gerasimos Konstatantos, the project’s coordinator, commented:
“I am very excited and proud to coordinate this multidisciplinary effort that aspires to achieve breakthroughs in computer vision technology for machine imaging and automotive applications. 2DNeuralVision will innovate image sensors with high performance, low cost and scalable manufacturing technologies as well as demonstrate optical neural networks with unprecedented power efficiency and computation capabilities.
At the heart of this project lie 2-dimensional materials (Graphene and TMDCs – Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers) and quantum dots, two material platforms whose impact and importance have been recognized with 2 Nobel Prizes. I am looking forward to closely working with all partners that are leaders in their corresponding fields, to bring this technology closer to market for the benefit of society at large.