DAEJEON, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – In a breakthrough that could revolutionize law enforcement, South Korean researchers have developed artificial intelligence technology capable of predicting criminal activity before it occurs. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on July 18 that it has created a system called Dejaview that analyzes CCTV footage, crime statistics, and [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said Thursday it will unveil the key artificial intelligence (AI) technology VoVNet (Variety of View Network), which is used to analyze visual images, as open source. VoVNet is a backbone network, a type of computer network that interconnects various pieces of technology [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has developed a technology that automatically sends out a distress call when a car overturns in an accident or a driver loses control of their vehicle. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Daejeon announced on Tuesday that it has developed seven terminal units equipped with [...]
DAEJEON, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Advanced driver support technology developed by South Korean researchers is expected to find its way into BMW models. On March 9, the ETRI and BMW Korea’s R&D Center signed a MOU agreeing to beef up joint R&D efforts into car-related technologies. The MOU signing is a continuation of collaborative [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — By next year, a wireless network 100 times faster than the one currently in place will be installed throughout Seoul’s subway infrastructure. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on January 4 that it will start by testing a “Mobile Hotspot Network” (MHN) on subway line 8 cars. [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The government-funded research institution ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Institute) has announced a breakthrough in its development of image recognition processors geared towards driverless car technology. The achievement – the successful design of a nine-core processor – is a notable one for South Korean interests, as it was only last [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute announced Thursday that a joint team of researchers from ETRI, Samsung Electronics, NextChip, and Unmanned Solution had developed Aldebaran, a gigahertz-scale processor that will serve as the brain of future self-driving vehicles. Such processors gather data from various sensors on an autonomous vehicle [...]
Daejeon, KOREA, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A 5G future is no longer a distant one, but an upcoming reality. High quality videos of more than 10Mbps can be served simultaneously to 100 users even in a train running at up to 500km/h. People can experience data rates that are 100 times faster than currently [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean scientists have developed a voice-to-text conversion technology that can automatically transcribe the voice of callers seamlessly to texts in Korean. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Korea (ETRI) announced on March 22 that it had successfully developed the Natural Language Recognition software. As financial institutions and other corporations [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean IT researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) have developed a software-based petabyte-level cloud storage system, said the institute on March 18. Existing cloud storage systems, typically made by well-known Japanese companies, can be only established by purchasing hardware with non-replaceable on-board software, which can hinder efficient [...]