Computer Vision News - February 2018

It all started with a few friends taking pictures during a ski vacation at Lake Louise. When Google photos tried to stitch their 3 photos together, the result was hilarious. The photographer MalletsDarker@reddit decided to post it on Reddit and as you will see he was soon imitated by others. This shows, as says very well Steve Dent on Engadget , “ how good AI can be at weirdly specific tasks and how bad it is at seeing, well, the big picture ”. Like the insignificant fact that “ humans are not eighty feet tall ”... You can read Steve’s excellent comment about the reasons for Google’s stitching fail. What we can add here, is that this epic fail generated a whole set of posts on Reddit , each claiming that their fail is worst (see below). They remind me that when we launched Computer Vision News two years ago (!), we considered including also a “fail” section, open to our readers’ posts. While we finally did not do it, it turns out that now Reddit has a whole subreddit for this . We only thought about it, Reddit did it… Google Panorama Photo Fail Computer Vision News Fail of the Month 11 photo: MalletsDarker@reddit