Computer Vision News - June 2016

Google Accessibility Projects For Disabled People Do you remember the Seeing AI app we told you about last month? Microsoft is working on it to help people who are visually impaired or blind to better understand who and what is around them. In this section, Computer Vision News lists some of the great stories that we have just found somewhere else. We share them with you, sometimes with a short comment. Enjoy! Apple's Answer to Amazon Echo with Facial Recognition Technology Apple is integrating a built-in camera equipped with facial recognition software in its own Amazon Echo-style product, likely available in 2017. Read… Google Makes Progress in Augmented Reality Journal of Open Source Software Helps Write and Publish Papers on Software Newly-announced JOSS (Journal of Open Source Software) wants to make the process of writing a software paper friendly and fast, helping developers to publish credible papers that others can reference. JOSS is here . Read a review here . .. Russian Photographer Identifies Subway Strangers with Facial Recognition App Many of us do not ride the St. Petersburg subway and do not post our photos on Vkontakte, Russia’s most popular social network. But those who do might be identified by 21-year-old photographer Egor Tsvetkov , who matches his photos of anonymous subway passengers with an online service called FindFace , allowing users to photograph anyone on the street, locate their Vkontakte profile via the social media’s image database and learn more about them! Read and Read more… It happens that Google too is working on a project to convey visual information to blind users through computer vision and natural language processing . Directing a blind person down a busy city street is not easy: read how Eve Andersson (Senior Manager of Accessibility Engineering at Google) thinks Google’s technology is going to help. Read… Google’s Project Tango uses sophisticated image processing technology that maps the image of a room or space in 3D for the machine world to perceive it and for the mobile devices to understand it. Read… How Facebook is Trying to Automatically Detect Mirror Selfies It happens that it is not so easy to teach a computer to recognize whether your selfie was taken in a mirror. Facebook is trying to use machine vision to make a further step towards true artificial intelligence. Read… 32 Computer Vision News Spotlight News