Computer Vision News - February 2017

Computer Vision News lists some of the great stories that we have just found somewhere else. We share them with you, adding a short comment. Enjoy! KFC China uses facial recognition tech to serve customers Buying fried chicken is not what it used to be. At least, not in China, where KFC has partnered with leading search engine and tech giant Baidu. An AI-enabled system recommends menu items based on your estimated age and mood, even if you didn’t like them the day before! Read… Computer Vision extension reveals Facebook's Hidden Tags Just like Google and Apple, Facebook too tries to make sense of objects in your photos and adds automated hidden photo tags, invisible to you. This LifeHacker article points to the extension revealing your photos’ tags. Read… Recent trends and long-established demands onmachine vision A very comprehensive article about progress in the application areas for image processing systems. If you want to refresh what you know about industrial cameras, sensors, machine vision software and all this field, read this online report by fine magazine QualityMag. Read… Google tells how to save bandwidth through machine learning Many of us working in image processing use images at high resolution, consuming so much bandwidth, slowing speeds and raising costs. Google is launching RAISR, a new technology saving up to 75% of the bandwidth. Read… China's Topplus Launches Face Alignment Engine for Free "Voome" is a free inclusive platform, with an algorithm engine of face alignment for both iOS and Android. It has just been announced by Topplus, a computer vision solution start-up based in China. They claim to offer it to the public (from small companies to individual developers) for permanently free. Voome (short for Vision of Me ), is now a face alignment and tracking algorithm engine, with SDK packages that can be downloaded from Voome.cn . Read… The Technological Future of Surgery: surgical robots? How cooperation between humans and technology promises to increase precision and efficiency in surgeries to levels never seen before. Here is a very nice review of what is going on in the field. Read… A Beginner's Guide To Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks The title says it all. It’s a very nice CNN guide by Adit Deshpande , UCLA. Read… Computer Vision News Spotlight News 11