Computer Vision News - March 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! The Robot Dog That Can Open a Door: How do you like Boston Dynamics ’ work and their great videos? We are extremely fond of them. And we can’t resist the temptation to show you this one too . Click on the image to watch! A text generation benchmarking platform - Texygen: Meet Texygen , a benchmarking platform able to support research on open-domain text generation models. It also covered a set of metrics that evaluate the diversity, the quality and the consistency of generated texts. Find it here! Introducing NIMA - Neural Image Assessment: The very latest post of Google Research Blog, introducing a deep CNN called NIMA that is trained to predict which images a typical human user would rate as looking good (technically) or attractive (esthetically). Regardless, don’t hesitate to add this blog of news from Research at Google to your favorite readings. Read Now… Programming drones to fly in the face of uncertainty: Programming drones to fly through cluttered spaces and avoid obstacles while traveling at high speeds is a computationally complex task, especially when your drone is small, with a limited on-board image processing capacity. MIT ’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) has developed a system called NanoMap that allows flying 20 mph through uncertain skies. Read Now... Spotlight News 9 Mr. Robot - All about Geoff Hinton’s Exceptional Success: Do you think you know many things about Geoff Hinton and how he became the pioneer of Artificial Intelligence ? In this exceptional Toronto Life article you will learn one hundred more. And you will admire even more the British scientist who is today one of the most respected researchers in our community. Read Now… Announcement of Tensor Comprehensions by Facebook and by Yann Lecun Applying YOLO to detect cancer cells in a tissue biopsy: Read Now…