Computer Vision News - March 2022

20 AI Spotlight News AI Unmasks Anonymous Chess Players, Posing Privacy Risks What if a chess player’s game discloses patterns that make it unique, just enough for AI to catch the clues and guess who the player is? This is probably not the worst privacy problem in the world, but combined with many other privacy threats that are growing rapidly, it is something we should probably know about. Researchers fromU of Toronto developed a systemand tested it by seeing how well it distinguishes one player from another on a chess online platform. Apparently, the system looked for the best match and identified the mystery player 86% of the time! Read More Waabi World: the “Ultimate School for Self-Driving Vehicles”! Remember thegreat interviewthat Raquel Urtasun gave Computer Vision News only four months ago about her big plans for the autonomous driving industry ? She said “We are going to change the world!” At the head of Waabi, Raquel is not wasting her time: the startup just unveiled a simulator named Waabi World that they call “ revolutionary ”. In their words, Waabi World is “ the most scalable, highest fidelity closed-loop simulator ever and the key to rapidly and safely commercializing self-driving technology. ” As great fans of Raquel, we bet she’s doing it right once again! Watch the Video Contactless Fingerprinting Maturation Allows the Unification of Biometric Capture Using Smartphones Contactless fingerprinting , as a subfield of biometric development, was becoming very popular even before the Covid-19 pandemic started. Of course, the adoption and further development of contactless technologies only accelerated during the pandemic . Until recently, for some strange reason, placing your finger(s) on a physical reader was considered the only proper way acquiring or verifying a fingerprint.ThedevelopmentofAI solutionsfor contactless fingerprint capture might require thegradual replacement of awholegeneration of dedicated acquisition devices with only software and smartphones . Read More Computer Vision News has found great new stories, written somewhere else by somebody else. We share them with you, adding a short comment. Enjoy!