Chipmaker Intel has snapped up computer vision company Itseez in a bid to push further into the Internet of Things (IoT).Doug Davis, senior veep of the IoT Group at Intel,

announced the deal in a blog post, saying that it will help Intel to fuel the

creation of deep learning applications for self-driving vehicles and digital

security.

“Itseez will become a key ingredient for Intel’s IoT Group roadmap, and

will help Intel’s customers create innovative deep-learning-based computer

vision applications like autonomous driving, digital security and surveillance,

and industrial inspection,” he said.

“Computer vision includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing and

understanding images from the real world to make informed decisions and automate

actions.”