Computer Vision News - April 2023

20 AI Spotlight News Computer Vision News has found great new stories, written somewhere else by somebody else. We share them with you, adding a short comment. Enjoy! Everything You Know About Computer Vision May Soon Be Wrong This MIT spinoff called Ubicept believes that computer vision would be a lot faster and better if we skip the concept of still frames and instead directly analyze the data stream from a camera. There are “45 billion cameras in the world, and most of them are creating images and video that aren’t really being looked at by a human”, so the guys ask why bother with the concept of frames, when this is meaningful for humans and not from machines. Instead, they suggest to measure the individual photons that hit an imaging sensor directly. Their goal is that in 10 years, 50% of cameras will have their technology. Read More French Surveillance System for Olympics Moves Forward, Despite Civil Rights Campaign Do you plan to go to the Paris Olympics next year? Someone will be watching you. A controversial video surveillance system was just approved by the French parliament : it is expected to use automated (with Artificial Intelligence) behavioral surveillance of public spaces during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics , ignoring objections from the opposition, Amnesty International and more. Opponents of the intrusive plan argue that it will infringe upon privacy rights. Promoters argue instead that the algorithmwill help spot suspicious behavior, including unsupervised luggage and alarming crowd movements like stampedes. Read More “Quantum light” Manipulation a Step Closer We never speak about quantum computing and its potential in fields like medical imaging, biology, advanced manufacturing and more. So today we do it. Physicists at the Australia’s University of Sydney and Switzerland’s University of Basel are among the first team to manipulate photons - particles of light - which are interacting with each other. The scientists like this experiment, “not only because it validates a fundamental effect – stimulated emission – at its ultimate limit, but it also represents a huge technological step towards advanced applications.” Read More