Computer Vision News - May 2022

4 Grand Challenge Workshop at CVPR problems entangled in solving the problem of answering a visual question, ” Danna explains. “ Problems such as helping the photographer capture a good image of the content of interest. If you want to know the expiration date of food, for example, the food needs to be oriented to see the expiration date. Given that it can be difficult for people to take a good image, we’re now putting out video-based challenges. ” Other use cases include providing a description of images and predicting when and why answers to visual questions might differ. The datasets generated by the challenges so far have caught the attention of some People with visual impairments use applications on their mobile phones or smart glasses to learn more about their visual surroundings. Does this shirt match my pants? Is this yogurt strawberry- flavored? What type of pills are these? These applications are primarily human- based, but this workshop and the challenges running now aim to get the AI community involved in designing algorithms that will automatically help blind or partially sighted people in their day-to-day lives. Now in its fourth edition, the VizWiz workshop was focused initially on the immediate task of visual question answering but has evolved over the years. “ We discovered there are many other 2022 VIZWIZ GRAND CHALLENGE WORKSHOP Danna Gurari is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and the co- organizer of the VizWiz Grand Challenge Workshop. VizWiz has the dual aims of educating researchers about the technological needs of people with vision impairments and empowering them to improve algorithms to meet these needs. Danna speaks to us about the challenge and upcoming workshop.