Computer Vision News - April 2018

Computer Vision News lists some of the great stories that we have just found somewhere else. We share them with you, adding a short comment. Enjoy! Piccolo’s Gesture-based Smart Home Vision Assistant: This is not about Google. It’s about a voice assistant . This new voice assistant by Piccolo wants to put a camera in every smart home that can translate people’s physical motions and gestures into commands. Read Now… NewGoogle Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition: Apparently today is Goggle news day… Meet Google- Landmarks , the largest worldwide dataset for recognition of human-made and natural landmarks . Google-Landmarks is being released as part of the Landmark Recognition and Landmark Retrieval Kaggle challenges . Find it here! Google’s ML Crash Course with TensorFlow APIs: Health research is far from being the only thing that Google does: they also offer a fast-paced, practical introduction to machine learning . Start Crash Course! Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS), by IBM DL Service: The exceptional success of Deep Learning techniques and of cloud solutions at the same time brings about a new business model for cognitive application delivery: deep learning as a service in the cloud. It’s a radical transformation of the IT industry as we know it. Read Now... Spotlight News 11 Google Develops AI to Assess Heart Health: Google's new AI technology uses scans like simple retina imaging to analyze blood vessels and predict future cardiovascular health risk . It’s the result of team work by Google’s AI researchers and Verily (a health tech subsidiary of Google). Read Now… On ML and Structure for driverless cars Mobile Robots : A very complete blog post by Markus Wulfmeier , a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the University of Oxford . The Building Blocks of Interpretability: Much of the recent work on interpretability is concerned with a neural network’s input and output layers . Find out what happens at the core of neural networks - in their hidden layers .