Nishikawa, CEO of PFN Inc. announced in his keynote speech at Interop 2015 Tokyo that PFN will enter into research and development alliance with Panasonic Corporation.

In this alliance, we will aim to integrate Panasonic’s forefront hardware technologies with our machine learning and deep learning technologies which we believe most advanced. Panasonic expects the research outcomes to be applied to automotive area and will also improve functionality of its digital AV devices.

PFN will expand the application of technology elements which we will obtain through the alliance, mainly in deep learning area, into other industry segments.