Computer Vision News - January 2019

Computer Vision News Editor: Ralph Anzarouth Engineering Editor: Assaf Spanier Publisher: RSIP Vision Contact us Give us feedback Free subscription Read previous magazines Copyright: RSIP Vision All rights reserved Unauthorized reproduction is strictly forbidden. Follow us: Computer Vision News Welcome 3 Did you subscribe to Computer Vision News? It’s free, click here! Dear reader, Welcome to the first issue of Computer Vision News in 2019 ! The main motivation behind the publication of this magazine for the 4 th year in a row is that readers appreciate what we do: Computer Vision News and its Daily conference offsprings (CVPR Daily, MICCAI Daily, ECCV Daily and ISBI Daily) have generated an aggregate 1,100,000 page views from all our readers together during 2018. Thank you! This magazine will continue to be 100% free, so please subscribe (if you haven’t done it yet) and subscribe your friends and colleagues. A word about RSIP Vision : as you might know, we are a pioneering software house offering custom algorithms and R&D to the industry. For us, 2018 has been a year of spectacular development in both business and technology. Enterprises love to work with us, as witnessed by the feedback we have just received from Biosense Webster , part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies. You can read it on page 21! Enjoy reading this new issue of Computer Vision News and, as always, take us along for your next Deep Learning project! Ralph Anzarouth Editor, Computer Vision News RSIP Vision Do we really need ImageNet pre-training? Read on page 4 our exclusive review of the new outstanding work by Kaiming He, Ross Girshick and Piotr Dollár of Facebook AI Research!