Depth cameras and depth sensors takes your computer vision and machine vision applications to the next level. Intel has the RealSense range and Microsoft just launched the new Azure Kinect. Image sensor manufacturers are releasing TOF (time of flight) sensors which can sense depth and generate volumetric video from a single piece of miniature silicon. Many smartphone vendors are integrating these sensors already, opening up for new exciting applications.

Overall there is a wide range of applications that are adopting depth video. Depth video adds valuable data to your machine vision – improving accuracy, enabling better training of deep neural networks among other things. The different 3D cameras and depth sensors use a multitude of technologies to detect depth but they all have in common that they produce a format called RGB-D which in raw format causes unmanageable data. And the data rate is increasing as the resolution of these cameras improve over time. Soon we will have 4K depth cameras! Aivero’s technology addresses this issue by making it possible to compress and stream depth video in real time.