View through a night vision device of a dark forest treeline
REC · LIVE · 24·06·2026
SECTOR / R&D · BUILD 0.42.1

A research company

We are solving
night vision
with deep learning.

For seventy years, seeing in the dark has meant strapping a glowing green tube to your face. Tarsir Vision is replacing it with deep learning — models trained to turn a single photon into useful sight.

Founded
Connecticut · 2025
Stage
Seed
Discipline
Deep learning
Focus
Night vision
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01Thesis

The eye is a model. So is the camera you're about to build.

Conventional night vision is a brute-force amplifier. It collects whatever photons hit a tube, multiplies them with high voltage, and dumps the noisy result onto a phosphor screen. The hardware hasn't fundamentally changed since Vietnam.

We treat sight as inference. Our sensor counts individual photons across a wider spectrum than human vision; a model trained on millions of paired dark/light scenes reconstructs the world in real color, in real time, at one watt.

"The right architecture for a camera that sees in the dark is not a better tube. It's a model that knows what the world looks like."

— Tarsir Vision research notes

02Capabilities

One system.
Built end-to-end to see in the dark.

01 / System
Pipeline

Photon → pixel → meaning

Detection, denoising, deblurring, demosaicing, color reconstruction, and semantic priors collapse into a single end-to-end network. No legacy ISP. No green.

02 / Product
Form

A camera, not a goggle

Twenty-eight grams. USB-C. Drop-in for drones, security cameras, robotics, automotive. The first SKU ships to design partners this winter.

FIELD SAMPLE · MOUNT TAM RIDGE · 0.0008 LUX

Same scene. Same moment.
Captured by the human eye, then by us.

A pitch dark mountain ridge on the left, reconstructed in daylight color on the right
UNAIDED · 0.0008 LXTARSIR · RECONSTRUCTED
Exposure 1/60 s · ISO equivalent 12,800Latency 11 ms · 5.8 W draw
0.0005lux
Minimum illuminance for full color reconstruction
11ms
End-to-end latency from photon to pixel
5.8watts
Average draw of the production module
14PB
Paired training data captured across 6 continents
03Trajectory

From a dark room in Connecticut.

  1. 2025 · Q1
    Founded
    Tarsir Vision is started in Connecticut.
  2. 2025 · Q3
    First models
    Early deep learning prototypes recover detail from photon-starved scenes.
  3. 2026 · Q1
    Seed funding
    Currently seed funded to accelerate research.
  4. 2026 · Q3
    Design partners
    First evaluation partners come online.
04 / Request access

If you build things
that need to see
in the dark — talk to us.

We're working with a small number of design partners in defense, autonomy, robotics, and conservation.

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