From black technology to super engineering

Chapter 47 Gundam's Dream

Inside the office of Professor Tang Zhigao.

Ma Jun and Yang Chaoxiong sat at the same desk, and the latter watched the former fill in varying numbers in an Excel spreadsheet of names.

When he saw that Ma Jun finally filled in "3000" after Ye Ming's name, Yang Chaoxiong felt emotional: "The boss is so grand."

"If I were you, I would pay Ye Ming for another three thousand subsidies." Ma Jun turned around and joked with a smile: "What about the second work of CVPR (IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, one of the top three computer vision conferences)?" , you are beautiful."

Yang Chaoxiong laughed immediately: "Isn't this over yet...and who knows if it will be over?"

"You have to trust the boss's vision. He has been thinking about which journal to submit to for two days." Ma Jun also said with emotion: "Before I read the paper and source code, I thought he was only specialized in openCV (an open source visual framework) , I didn’t expect him to make a frame by himself... Damn, there’s no comparison between people.”

"The key is that this guy hasn't realized how awesome he is." Yang Chaoxiong glanced back and exhaled softly: "I don't know, I was so stupid when I came back..."

"Otherwise, why does the boss like this guy so much?" Ma Jun chuckled and filled in the word (subsidy) for Ye Ming's column.

"It's also thanks to Lao Tang. If you change some bosses, let alone project subsidies, even if there are, the first work of the thesis will definitely be gone." Yang Chaoxiong nodded in agreement: "By the way, the school will reward you for sending out the CVPR. ?”

"That must be there!"

Ma Jun checked the form and saved it. He glanced around with emotion, and finally stood up: "The next task is to make payroll for everyone."

"I really don't want to do this."

Ma Jun shrugged: "That can't be helped, the teacher likes you."

"...You are coming less often."

Having said that, Yang Chaoxiong also knows that the big brother Ma Jun is about to graduate with a Ph.D.

Moreover, the boss didn't procrastinate or talk about this big disciple who opened the door, and helped Ma Jun contact a laboratory in Canada as a postdoctoral fellow early on.

The work that Ma Jun usually does can only fall on him.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps at the door, and soon Tang Zhigao's figure appeared at the door.

……

"The office is so messy?" Professor Tang looked around and told Yang Chaoxiong, "Chaoxiong, clean up the table."

"Oh, who's coming later?" Yang Chaoxiong stood up and packed up immediately.

Although he didn't call Ma Jun, he immediately picked up the broom behind the door.

"No one, only Ye Ming is coming."

Yang Chaoxiong was stunned, and immediately put down the book, with a face full of tears and laughter: "Teacher, don't bring such a person, how big is Xiao Yezi..."

Professor Tang said dumbly: "If the house is messed up, if you don't learn to clean it up, you will be yelled at by your wife sooner or later."

"Hey, it seems that Mistress usually yells at you a lot."

"Get out, work." Professor Tang cursed with a smile, walked to the desk and sat down.

Ma Jun smiled slightly: "Teacher, what is Ye Ming doing here?"

"He..." Professor Tang took out his mobile phone and put it on the table, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "He said he wanted to engage in brain-computer communication in robotics, come and ask me."

Ma Jun and Yang Chaoxiong looked at each other when they heard the words, their eyes showed surprise at the same time.

Of course, they both know that the tutor is currently struggling with what to apply for the next big project—either a “wheelchair” combining brain-computer + AI—or automatic driving of cars.

The former requires cooperation across several majors, and the "market" prospect does not look very good at present, which means that even if the application is approved, there is not much funding.

As for the latter, although autonomous driving has a bright future, not to mention the fierce competition, the topics of autonomous driving must be at the national level, and it must be led by deans and academicians.

Old Tang wanted to take the lead, but he was still a little bit short.

But this guy Ye Ming actually came up and said that he wanted to do brain-computer communication...

Is there such a coincidence?

"Does Ye Ming know how difficult it is to engage in brain-computer communication?" Yang Chaoxiong threw the book aside with a puzzled look on his face: "I admit that this guy is very sharp, but he wants to do this kind of interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary project by himself? Do you want to get a toy?"

Ma Jun smiled and said, "If you really want to make toys, then you might as well buy one from Taobao."

Yang Chaoxiong took it seriously: "Second."

"I don't know, so I want to hear from him." Professor Tang said and looked at his phone.

After a while, Ye Ming appeared at the door of the office.

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Tang Zhigao, Ma Jun, and Yang Chaoxiong sat in a row pulling stools, and Ye Ming sat opposite the three of them, quite like a graduate taking part in a defense.

Seeing Ye Ming pursed his lips, Professor Tang told Yang Chaoxiong: "Get Ye Ming a bottle of water."

"Ye Ming, you continue."

"Okay." Ye Ming unscrewed the bottle and took a sip, still unable to hide the excitement in his eyes: "Let's assume that the future world is a high-tech world with chips behind everyone's brains, then through brain-computer interface + AI automatic driving Vehicles, control of mechanical exoskeletons, and even larger bodies must be the direction of future development."

——As soon as the description of "a larger body" was mentioned, the three people on the opposite side laughed at the same time.

"You really want to build a Gundam?" Yang Chaoxiong was overjoyed—the fact that Ye Ming said in front of Professor Tang that he wanted to build a Gundam had already spread throughout the school.

"You have to have a dream!" Ye Ming hugged the mineral water and said with a chuckle, "You can't go a thousand miles without taking a few steps, so I plan to use brain waves to control the robot first."

Professor Tang nodded slightly, pondered for a few seconds and then smiled, "Then have you considered the technical difficulty involved?"

Ye Ming: "If we only talk about brain computers, the most difficult thing is the collection and signal processing of brain wave signals."

"Yes!" Professor Tang nodded: "For collection, whether it is a dry electrode, a wet electrode or an implanted electrode, there are disadvantages. The signal noise of the former two is too large, and the latter implantation itself is unstable. Engineering difficulties."

"The problem of signal processing is reflected in the speed of denoising and information conversion - if you have known it before, you will understand that the information collected through electrodes is not synchronized with people's 'thinking', you have to slow down, you Just watch those demos of bionic robotic arms."

"Of course, the direction of solving these problems is to use AI to assist, which can be regarded as the mainstream direction."

Professor Tang smiled slightly after finishing speaking: "So what problems do you think you can solve?"

"Forehead……"

Ye Ming would like to say that these are not problems for my requirements.

Because what he collected was not brain wave signals, but the precise discharge of bioelectricity under the control of Ita.

But he believes that with the assistance of Ita, he will be able to find the most accurate expression of EEG signals.

Ye Ming bit his lower lip slightly, frowning deeply in silence.

After a while, he said softly: "I think, I should be able to solve the problem of signal noise reduction. At the very least, I can control a robot in the team to move forward and turn backwards, or control my mechanical arm to say hello. "

Professor Tang's eyes lit up instantly.

As for Ma Jun and Yang Chaoxiong, they looked at the teacher at the same time.

Including Ye Ming, who also looked at Professor Tang with burning eyes.

Facing everyone's eyes, Professor Tang pondered for a moment and then smiled softly: "You just talk and don't practice fake moves, so you are also a member of our group anyway."

Ye Ming smiled embarrassedly.

"You first make a design plan for brain-computer acquisition—don't tell me you haven't thought about it."

"I thought about it."

"That's good. Let me have a look at your plan, and then start with cheap equipment and see the effect first. If it works, then let's dig deeper into this topic!" Professor Tang looked at Ye Ming: "What do you think? how?"

"Yeah!" Ye Ming nodded heavily.

As long as you don't spend his money, you can talk about anything.

(End of this chapter)