Computer Vision News - January 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! Pinterest Sees The Future with Lens Are you a Pinterest fan? We are not really into that, but they have 200 million monthly users and their new AI features are kind of cool. Take a picture of anything you want and ask Pinterest to suggest where to find it or what you could do with it. Let Pinterest discover ideas for your actual life: for instance, Lens Your Look tells you new ways to wear clothes you already own. Read Now... One year in Computer Vision - by the M Tank We wanted to review for you the exceptional work done by researchers in our community during 2017 . And then we saw that somebody did that already - an they did it very well. Have a look at this nice report by Benjamin F. Duffy and Daniel R. Flynn . We are not sure that everyone knows all the models which are presented here. Read Now... Haptic Technology: interact with the virtual world just by touch A video recommended by Michael Black is one we cannot miss. Follow Alexandra Cardinale’s infectious enthusiasm, while she explains with gusto how a virtual sense of touch enables humans and robots to interact with each other. It’s called Haptic Intelligence and you must see what Katherine Kuchenbecker is doing with it at this newly established department of the Max Plank Institute for Intelligent Systems. Click on the image to watch the video! Jürgen Schmidhuber: A New Type of Life is Going to Emerge from our Little Planet and Colonize the Entire Universe! Our readers remember the fascinating interview that Professor Schmidhuber gave to Computer Vision News . Now you can hear his intriguing (and a bit scary) vision of future from his own voice in this exceptional TED x Talk : don't miss it! Click on the image to watch the video! Do you like reading about fooling tools against AI recognition? Here is how to turn a pair of glasses into a sci-fi AI-fooling backdoor: Read Now 14 Computer Vision News Spotlight News New Sensor Gives Driverless Cars a Human-Like View It’s a new hybrid sensor combining a camera, solid-state Lidar, and onboard image processing to change how it sees in response to its surroundings. The startup is called AEye . Read Now...