Spectral Kernel Machines' single semiconductor integrates: machine-learning inference during photodetection, spectral imaging, machine vision, AI

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-intelligent-photodetectors-dogs-materials-spectra.html

"directly encodes visible to mid-IR spectral/ spatial information into output photocurrent, so sensor identifies materials, chemicals,.. optoelectronic sensors learn/ compute without need for digital post-processing... electrically tunable enhancing/ suppressing specific spectral signatures... trains sampling pixels/ receiving simple commands, learns optimal electrical control sequence targeting object's pixels/ suppress background... for new/ unseen images, produces only for pixels belonging to target object"

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