Computer Vision News - April 2021

23 Recognise Traits of ASD The interesting fact is that for the adult group, the ASD positive lies around 20- 30 years. For the toddlers that is ~36 months. There is a linear negative relation between the ASD and the age for the adults, while the reverse is true for the toddlers. One reason is that there are strategies developed to assist adults with ASD (and here is why this is very important from a social point of view and policies to be created). For children, the autism shows in about 3 years of age. Again, this is very important in the sense that as the prognosis of ASD (or even better the diagnosis) can be achieved in earlier stages, more strategies can be developed to help those children, adapt, learn, interact and thrill; much better than today. Wrap up and future… I do wish this was a valuable approach to using an existing dataset and understanding if it’s possible to get a prognosis for ASD for a toddler. In the June magazine, my article will continue to explore the dataset and reveal more features that can be extracted and predicted. Approaches such as this are currently developed into tools and frameworks, that are tried on clinical settings to infer the possibility of using this in a clinical workflow. This would add agility and will provide with hints for the practitioners to better understand such developments. Till next month, enjoy What does Angjoo Kanazawa wish Computer Vision News for our 5th anniversary? Find out on page 33!