Computer Vision News - May 2016

Spotlight News COMPUTER VISION NEWS 7 Microsoft Cognitive Services: Introducing the Seeing AI app Saqib is a core Microsoft developer living in London, who lost the use of his eyes at age 7. He found inspiration in computing and is helping build Seeing AI, a research project that helps people who are visually impaired or blind to better understand who and what is around them . The app is built using intelligence APIs from Microsoft Cognitive Services . Watch this video, we loved it… Of course, we try to make Computer Vision News as interesting as it can be. And when we find great stories published somewhere else, this is the place where we share them with you. Enjoy! Samsung Medison Applies Deep Learning Technology to Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging Samsung Medison (a global medical equipment company and an affiliate of Samsung Electronics), announced that it is applying deep learning technology to ultrasound imaging for the first time in breast lesion analysis , in order to to meet the growing need of faster and more efficient diagnostic imaging solutions. Read… Harman’s ‘Reverse Pedestrian Detection’ Safety Technology Targets Reduction in Injuries and Death from Back-Over Incidents Blind Spot Detection safety system eliminates blind spots to reduce accidents that injure 15,000 people and cause 200 deaths a year in the U.S. Read… A new set of complete benchmarks for deep learning: Read… Interactive deep learning demo We all know TensorFlow, the new deep learning package from Google. They have published on their website a nice interactive demo for deep learning and we suggest you check it out. It is nice! Read… LIRE - A simple way to retrieve images and photos based on color and texture Read… Hello World - Machine Learning Recipes #1 (by Google Developers): Watch…