Computer Vision News - July 2016

Shuicheng and Cheong invited me to see something very special at the Qihoo 360 booth and I was not disappointed. They showed me a very good facial analysis system. Very accurate, stable, and energy efficient. With this kind of functions, many things become possible: make a face look thinner or enlarge the eyes to make it look more beautiful. In Asian culture, Shuicheng told me, thin face and big eyes make one’s aspect beautiful. You can also perform analysis, for example, of the age or gender, whether you wear glasses, how beautiful you are, etc. Your humble servant tried this out , see the results in the image on the right. Thank you to Jing Wan of Statefarm for providing a very much needed translation from Chinese! Qihoo 360 This is what Qihoo’s software says about me! I look 2 years younger than I really am, I wear glasses, I am a gentleman (of course, I am Italian!) and my face is smiling  CVPR EXPO 9 BEST OF CVPR DAILY TuSimple multi-class object detection, lane detection, depth estimation, and scene analysis. Optimized for complex road conditions in cluttered urban scenes, this technology can accurately assess driving risks from pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle, cars, and other types of obstacles . The solution being 100% vision- based, this means dramatic reduction in hardware cost, comparing to today’s LiDAR-based perception solutions. The company is headquartered in Beijing, China ; with its research institute in San Diego, USA . If you ask why the company is called TuSimple , this must have something to do with “ Technology made simple ”. What they do is ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System) , autonomous driving, and web-scale image recognition applications. We asked them about that and Amanda Song explained that their ADAS/autonomous driving system incorporates state-of-the-art modules for