Computer Vision News - January 2020

3 Summary Spotlight News 31 GE Unveils Novel Contrast- enhanced Mammography Solution for Biopsy GE Healthcare (who are this magazine's guest also at page NN) have developed a mammography-guided biopsy technique which offers an alternative to MR-guided breast biopsy . They called it Serena Bright and they introduced it a few weeks ago at RSNA. It is expected to give biopsy answers to patients faster . One of its features highlights areas of unusual blood flow to help localize lesions that need to be biopsied. Read... and Talk with us about your Medical Imaging projects! This object-recognition dataset stumped the world’s best CV models MIT and IBM researchers set out to create a kind of object-recognition dataset which is very different from ImageNet : while the latter's images often display objects shown head- on, in iconic positions, and in highly correlated settings, ObjectNet includes photographs of hundreds of randomly posed household objects and other images more difficult to interpret than ImageNet, making the new dataset less biased and more useful to analyze random situations. Read... Grabango appoints UC Berkeley Trevor Darrell as Chief Scientist Grabango is a provider of checkout-free technology for brick-and-mortar grocery stores. They announced the appointment of Professor Trevor Darrell as their Chief Scientist. Trevor said that Grabango’s technology transforms the way people shop and will soon become one of the most significant ways computer vision impacts peoples’ daily lives . Computer Vision News has never interviewed Professor Darrel yet. Would you like us to have a chat with him? In the meantime, Read...