Computer Vision News - March 2019

Exploring PlaNet, Google-DeepMind’s Solution for… …for Long Term Planning in Reinforcement Learning Agents. Google and DeepMind AI researchers work on a Deep Planning Network (PlaNet) , a new model that can learn about the world using images and utilize that knowledge for long-term planning, with two new concepts: a Recurrent State Space Model and a Latent Overshooting Objective . Read About It Here… Artificial Intelligence Should Start With Artificial Joints: Artificial intelligence is converging with medicine and one of the areas involved is joint replacement: large high quality patient data may feed a sophisticated algorithm that predicts the risks of a joint replacement in the future as well as expected costs and recovery info. ReadMore and What RSIP Vision Offers in This Field Delivery robots put sidewalks in the spotlight: How ready robotics technology is to navigate the surprisingly perilous world of the neighborhood sidewalk? Now that Amazon has announced a pilot of autonomous delivery robots , what are the main technological hurdles that need to be solved? ReadMore… Don’t Let Artificial Intelligence Pick Your Employees: Are algorithms sophisticated enough to make strategic decisions like hiring ? Even though a Stanford organizational behavior teacher thinks they are not, the use of machines in hiring has become widespread long ago and now between 65% and 70% of all job applications are touched first by a machine. ReadMore… ‘Fauxtography’ is now a fact of life: Unedited photos are today no more than a romantic ideal. Theverge.com tells us what image processing edits are silently done by our smartphones even before we see the pic; after that, manual photo retouching has become more a habit than an option. Whitening and flattening the skin, enlarging the eyes, shrinking or straightening the nose… the article is well written and fun to read. Enjoy! What’s Behind JPMorgan Chase’s Big Bet on Artificial Intelligence? America’s biggest bank bets on AI to shape its future strategies. Read More Listen 15 Computer Vision News Artificial Intelligence Spotlight News Computer Vision News has found great new stories, written somewhere else by somebody else. We share them with you, adding a short comment. Enjoy!