Computer Vision News - April 2023

21 AI Spotlight News The Importance of Reducing Food Waste in Commercial Aviation How do you like airline food? OK, not much. The story here says that much of it (tasty or not) goes sadly wasted. IATA estimates that about 25% of all cabin waste is untouched food and beverages. Reducing food waste levels in the sky is thereforea goal for carriers. Steps todo this can be very different: besides identifying waste at the production source, one of the methods uses computer vision and machine learning to reduce inflight waste. This technology, via identifiers on meal packaging, can track and differentiate discarded food items and create more relevant and efficient catering plans. Read More AeroCloud Launches Computer Vision Passenger Tracking Technology Stay on board, please! Airport management platform AeroCloud has launched AeroCloud Optic , a product that uses computer vision to track passengers intelligently, anonymously and accurately as they move through an airport. The real- time monitoring of passenger flow means that alerts are triggered in response to bottlenecks in operations, such as extended wait times at check-in or security, allowing these to be immediately addressed with additional resources. AI and ML are used to enable airport staff to identify trends, predict future scenarios take accurate decisions in both short and long term. Read More Biodegradable Artificial Muscles: Going Green in The Field of Soft Robotics Let’s end this month’s AI Spotlight News with a positive note: journal Science Advances has published the work of an international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), the Johannes Kepler University (JKU, and the University of Colorado (CU Boulder). The scientists collaborated to design a fully biodegradable, high performance artificial muscle – based on gelatin, oil, and bioplastics. They show the potential of this biodegradable technology by using it to animate a robotic gripper, which could be especially useful in single-use deployments such as for waste collection. Watch the Video