Computer Vision News - March 2022

21 AI Spotlight News DeepMind’s MuZero: Collaborating with YouTube to Optimize Video Compression MuZero is DeepMind’s successor of famous AlphaGo and less famous AlphaZero . These AI agents are not only good at winning games: now, in pursuit of DeepMind ’s mission to solve intelligence,MuZero (which is based on Reinforcement Learning ) has taken on real-world tasks by optimizing video on YouTube , which it compresses by an average 4% with no loss of video quality. Consider the huge time and bandwidth savings that MuZero can generate on the whole activity around zillions of YouTube vids! And you know that YouTube belongs to Google , the sister company to Alphabet ’s DeepMind! Listen to the Podcast Choices, Risks, and Reward Reports: Charting Public Policy for Reinforcement Learning Systems Reinforcement Learning (RL) is considered by many the most promising path to artificial general intelligence. Its use is growing in the real world, not without concrete dangers . Imagine an autonomous vehicle looking for the most rewarding (easiest) way to succeed at a task: it may come by optimizing defensive driving in a way that disrupts traffic and makes it less safe for other road users. It’s not me saying this: it’s a new study just published by the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity at Berkeley . Luckily enough, the authors recommend a solution: RL models should be accompanied by “ Reward Reports ”. Read More An end to dark, blurry images? Thank AI! The folks at Visionary.ai have developed an AI-based image signal processor (ISP) which achieves cutting-edge image quality in low light. Check the video and see by yourself! Apparently, the startup has also developed a denoiser which removes blur and noise, and they claim to decrease missed detections by over 50% when compared with classical denoisers. Their AI ISP also works in real-time. Visionary. ai say they are already working with consumer electronics manufacturers, and are now starting to enter the medical imaging market to help improve detection accuracy.” Watch the Video