Computer Vision News - February 2020

3 Summary Spotlight News 2 10 Leading tech trends: How AI will evolve in 2020 The Alibaba DAMO Academy (Academy for Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook) published the Top 10 Technology Trends in 2020 . They hope that "by grasping the pace of revolution of technologies, we can make better use of these magics and be in charge of our own future." Don't know if we can hope that much... Let's just hope that our readers enjoy the article and find some inspiration for making AI news in the coming year. There's plenty of good stuff in the article, like the evolution of Artificial Intelligence from perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence and more. Read... MIScnn: A Python Framework for Medical Image Segmentation with CNNs and DL This is a tiny article, so if you don't have time, read it anyway! the authors claim that the current medical image segmentation platforms do not provide required functionalities for the plain setup of medical image segmentation pipelines. Therefore they wrote a paper to introduce the open- source Python library MIScnn , a framework with intuitive APIs allowing the fast setup of medical image segmentation pipelines with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Deep Learning models - in just a few lines of code. We think it's good to know about it. Read... Augmented Intelligence is the New “AI” They ask a very good question: what about artificial intelligence in healthcare ? We’ve seen this technology take hold in areas like precision surgery, drug research and development, and disease detection. Now - they say - healthcare (and other) technology leaders are stepping away from “artificial intelligence” and toward a new term: “ augmented intelligence ”. They think it captures the same sort of cutting-edge technology use in healthcare that we have already seen from AI applications. Curious? Read...