Hyperdimensional computing is an emerging computing paradigm that leverages distributed representations of input data. The hyperdimensional distributed representations facilitate energy-efficient, low-latency, and noise-robust computations using low-precision and basic arithmetic operations. In this presentation, we introduce optical hyperdimensional distributed representations using laser speckles for adaptive, efficient, and low-latency optical in-sensor processing. We focus on applications for optical soft-touch interfaces and tactile sensors. We demonstrate that this optical approach achieves high accuracy in touch or tactile recognition while significantly reducing the amount of training data and computational burdens compared to traditional deep learning-based sensing approaches.
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