Computer Vision News - January 2019

Will We Ever Solve The Shortage of Data in Medical Applications: In the age of deep learning , data has become an even more critical resource than it used to be. The case of medical data is even more complicated, mostly because of patient privacy, which is protected by patient data laws that differ from country to country. What are the solutions? Three suggestions here… Google’s Drone Delivery Wing starts a pilot in Finland: Wing , now a full company in the Alphabet group, will begin a drone delivery pilot in Helsinki , delivering goods and packages of up to 1.5 kilograms within a distance of up to 10 kilometers. The service is initially free and orders are placed via the app. Read More... A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning: Let start with something useful. Very useful! More often than not, you know what software to use for your project. If you don’t, ask RSIP Vision . But deep learning is very computationally intensive: do you always know how powerful should hardware be to make it happen? GPUs, CPUs, RAM, HD/SSD, PSU… This Guide Knows... Microsoft open sources the ONNX runtime engine for ML: Following its alliance with Facebook around the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), Microsoft open sources the inference engine at the heart of its Windows machine learning platform. They are making it available on GitHub . Microsoft also made its Azure Machine Learning service generally available. Enjoy! The industrial tech to watch in 2019: Edge computing, computer vision , and “cobots” will have a huge impact on industrial manufacturing in the coming year and beyond. How do we know? Stacey on IoT tells us in her review of a new report by CB Insights . Not sure we agree with the quadrants. Do you? Read Here... AnEye-ScanningLieDetector and aBaby-SitterScreeningAI: Two separate articles about two separate apps. What do they have in common? Well, oftentimes artificial intelligence and computer vision solve important problems. Sometimes, they are employed in a sort of creepy, uncomfortable way . What do you think of this app and of that app? Another nice interview with Yann LeCun here . Did you read the one we did ? Another nice interview with Yoshua Bengio here . Did you read the one we did ? AI in art ? We liked the term “Artificial Stupidity”… Read a curator’s opinion here... 19 Computer Vision News Artificial Intelligence Spotlight News