Computer Vision News - July 2016

Suffering from a sleepless baby? Nanit can help An Israeli startup has developed a smart monitor that analyzes patterns and quality of an infant’s sleep using computer vision algorithms . It places a camera placed above the baby’s bed that monitors his or her behavior during sleep and is able to generate video alerts. Read… In this section, Computer Vision News lists some of the great stories that we have just found somewhere else. We share them with you, generally with a short comment. Enjoy! The FBI's is Analyzing Tattoos With Computer Vision Did you think that surveillance cameras were breaking the ultimate barrier to our freedom? The Electronic Frontier Foundation has learned that the FBI is doing much more: first, their automated tattoo recognition employs algorithms that can identify people by their tattoos; even more importantly, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has started a program in 2014 for improving technology that can map connections between people with similarly themed tattoos or make inferences about people from their tattoos (e.g. political ideology, religious beliefs). The quote on the right is taken from a NIST white paper. Have a tattoo? Say goodbye to your privacy! Read… Snapchat Acquires Computer Vision Startup: 3D Selfies Coming Soon Snapchat has reportedly acquired computer vision startup Seene , a company that enables users to capture their faces using their phone's cameras and render those in 3D on their mobile devices. Read... A program that recognizes Rubik's cube and solves it using AR This Augmented Reality Rubik's cube solving assistant is too cute. We think that you should watch this video ! Peeking inside Convnets Convolutional Neural Networks can be used extensively for a number of image-related tasks and are very successful. However, it is often hard to understand what happens inside the network. Here are a few special tricks which can be used to take a peek by visualizing what is detected by the individual units in a layer. Read… “Tattoos provide valuable information on an individual’s affiliations or beliefs and can support identity verification of an individual” Computer Vision News Spotlight News 19