Computer Vision News - February 2021

236 Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision News has found great new stories, written somewhere else by somebody else. We share them with you, adding a short comment. Enjoy! A I S P O T L I G H T N E W S Collaboration of AImotive and Sony Evolves ADAS Capability Our readers certainly remember AImotive , a promising autonomous driving company from Hungary whom we spoke about three years ago. They have news: they are working with Sony to advance their automated driving software stack with Sony’s VISION-S Prototype. According to Sony, this prototype - which they just announced at CES - is conceived to integrate the advanced ADAS and automated driving systems with the latest electric vehicle technology and an innovative entertainment system . Security and fun plaited together! In the meantime, they have grown to almost 200 people and they look forward to solving new challenges. Read More HireVue drops facial monitoring amid AI algorithm audit HireVue is a leading company in the “ hiretech ” space. That means software enabling companies to record videos of candidates and then sorting them based on those responses. Which is sort of touchy ground. They announced in January that they are scrapping one of the touchiest features of their software: their algorithms will stop using a candidate's facial expressions in video interviews as a factor to consider. In any case, the author of this great Fortune article was told by the company’s Chief DS that nonverbal data didn’t provide anyway much predictive power compared to the content of a candidate’s answers. Read More ASingapore-BasedCoffeeBarBuilds ‘Ella’: A Fully Autonomous Robot Barista Using Intel Technology Apparently, you can get coffee served by a fully autonomous robot barista named “Ella”. This happens in downtown Singapore, at a small coffee bar named Crown Coffee. Ella is a six-axis robot that takes your order remotely via an app, makes your coffee, notifies you when it is ready, serves it to you, finalizes your bill and charges your credit card. We don’t know yet if Ella can already spill coffee on your jacket too! Crown Coffee’s CEO/ founder, Keith Tan (whose wife is not surprisingly called Ella), did not do this alone: Intel helped him realize this idea of a robot barista and partnered with him to design and develop prototypes. Read More