AI Angel builds a non-red AI image-signal-processing (ISP) and edge-AI platform for drones — real-time HDR, denoising and scene AI on the edge, with secure over-the-air model updates. Proven on FPGA today, advancing to a dedicated 28 nm AI ISP chip. With partner JANMAN Precision, the rugged airframe and the AI brain arrive as one turnkey package.
The camera must survive the field — and it must see through haze, glare and darkness and decide in real time, at flight speed, without your imagery ever leaving the aircraft.
High-altitude haze, backlight, 0.1 lux nights and 150 km/h motion blur defeat ordinary cameras. You need adaptive HDR, dehaze and motion compensation — computed live.
Cloud round-trips add delay and leak data; drones are power- and weight-limited. You need low-latency inference on the edge, at low power, with the data kept on board.
AI Angel (CTE Group) provides the intelligence; JANMAN Precision provides the structure. Together, one complete, fully non-Chinese package.
A short cinematic film — non-red drone AI, from the edge to the sky.
Eight tightly-integrated capability areas turn a raw, noisy sensor feed into clean, decision-ready imagery — efficient enough to run on the edge.
AI accelerator + ISP pipeline + memory subsystem co-designed; tensor & convolution engines, low-latency data paths, configurable pipeline.
Multi-exposure HDR, motion compensation, spatial/temporal denoise, dehaze, local tone mapping, colour processing.
Lightweight CNNs, INT8 quantisation, knowledge distillation and hardware-aware training — big-model accuracy at edge cost.
Dedicated ISP accelerators — feature detection, motion-estimation and filter arrays, colour-transform engines.
Hierarchical cache, DMA and bandwidth optimisation; DVFS, clock-gating and power-domain design for < 2.5 W on 28 nm.
Root-of-Trust secure boot, AES-256 hardware encryption, TEE, device drivers and control logic — offline by design.
Image quality, edge AI and secure updates are co-designed as a single system. The drone stays fully autonomous in the field; the cloud keeps the whole fleet improving over the air.
An AI agent continuously watches live quality metrics — PSNR, SSIM, latency, accuracy — and decides on its own when to push, upgrade or roll back a model. No truck-roll, no downtime.
Version control, A/B deployment, knowledge-distillation training and a live dashboard across the entire fleet.
Only de-identified gradients ever leave a device — raw imagery never does. Every deployment is written to a blockchain ledger for a tamper-proof audit trail.
Multi-camera RAW feed streamed straight into the FPGA over MIPI CSI-2 — no host PC in the loop.
A full 9-stage ISP and a 3-tier AI inference stack run entirely in FPGA fabric — the proprietary core that becomes our dedicated 28 nm AI ISP chip.
A dedicated real-time controller drives the FPGA and manages A/B firmware: it evaluates each new model against the quality metrics, switches atomically in < 50 ms, and rolls back automatically if anything regresses — the drone keeps flying through every update.
We keep demonstrated results and design targets clearly separate.
FPGA platform proven; JANMAN partnership in place; first Sample-Kit pilots with drone makers, and a full SDK for partners.
AI ISP tape-out and engineering samples; first ODM/OEM integrations and Beta-site validation.
Volume production; broaden from inspection into mobile-vehicle vision and infrastructure.
12 nm process, 4–8 TOPS; expansion into ADAS, smart-city and Industry-4.0 vision.
For critical infrastructure and national programmes, the supply chain and the data both matter.
Part of CTE Group (founded 2010, Taipei) with deep heritage in image-signal-processing and camera-module design across mobile, wearable, automotive and security — and ASIC & FPGA imaging experience. AI Angel focuses that expertise on non-red drone edge-AI, OTA and a dedicated AI ISP chip, delivered ODM/OEM with an open SDK to empower local manufacturing.
An aerospace-grade precision manufacturer since 1985 — rugged PEEK/CFRTP housings, precision mechanics and one-stop mould-to-assembly production, with 56 patents and ISO 13485 / GMP certification. JANMAN provides the structure that keeps the optics stable in the field.
Tell us your use case and we'll come back with a concrete next step — a demo, a Sample-Kit pilot, or an ODM/OEM discussion.
Benison.pin@aiangel-ctegroup.com.tw
benison.pin@gmail.com
+886-902298875
CompanyAI Angel · CTE Group (晶芯電子), Taiwan
in partnership with JANMAN Precision (建名精密)
Benison Pin (賓振呈) — CTO
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