Computer Vision News - February 2023

24 AI Spotlight News Shutterstock Rolls out a Generative AI Toolkit to Create Images Based on Text Prompts It’s going to be interesting in the world of stock images! Shutterstock did not lose any time to partner with OpenAI to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image- generating platform. And now they bring their own generative AI tools to their users: customers of Shutterstock’s Creative Flow online design platform are now able to create images based on text prompts, powered by OpenAI and Dall-E 2. On the other hand, Getty Images seem to stake their bets in the opposite direction: they play it safe, banning all AI-generated content over fears of future copyright claims and legal risks. Read More How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping us Decode Animal Languages Curious? You should be. AI and machine learning havebeenusedoveryearsto analyzeandtranslate human languages to very impressive state of the art levels, enabling new communications avenues between humans and machines. Ask Katie Zacarian , the CEO and co-founder of Earth Species Project (ESP) , a non-profit organization that uses AI to decode animal communication . The idea is to apply past breakthroughs of AI for human language to animal communication. This is not less impressive! It involves large data sets that contain visual, oral and physical communications between animals . Read More Show Me the Way, AI Stick! It is not the first time that Spotlight News tells you about AI providing helpful solution to visually impaired persons: daily life presents them a variety of challenges that those with normal vision may not be aware of and we are happy to witness great advances in supporting the population affected by visual impairments. Mobility is not the least of these challenges and AI is always one step closer to solving it. This time, a team of researchers from Colorado developed a new kind of walking stick, that maps and catalogs the world around it thanks to a camera and computer vision technology. Watch the Video Computer Vision News has found great new stories, written somewhere else by somebody else. We share them with you, adding a short comment. Enjoy!