Computer Vision News - February 2021

3 Spotlight News 37 Artificial Intelligence of COVID-19 Imaging: A Hammer in Search of a Nail Ronald Summers of NIH , an old friend of our magazine, has found that the pace of publication of AI articles on COVID-19 is increasing: there are more than 500 such manuscripts on arXiv and more than 200 articles on PubMed . The articles are appearing not only in radiology clinical journals but also in technical and general interest scientific journals. There is a clear appetite for such research despite its repetitiveness and unclear path to clinical utility. He so decided to finally put this deluge of articles into context and tell us what is apparently working. Many will be surprised... Read More How Computer Vision Helps to Influence Customer Behavior AI and Computer Vision help retailers to analyze visitors' behavior, store personnel's performance, checkout lines, availability of goods on shelves, their popularity, and more. Among the tasks that AI solves is the management of purchasing behavior using heat maps . The technology makes it possible to analyze the behavior of employees and customers as well. More importantly, heat maps help retailers to influence buyers' behavior: placing ads, visitor messages, and promotional items in “hot zones”. They suggest placing unpopular goods in the hot zones or (this is very brave!) relocating popular products to heat up the cold zones. Read More Professor Antonio Torralba Elected 2021 AAAI Fellow Great news about another old friend of our magazine! Antonio Torralba , a professor at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has been selected as a 2021 Fellow by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI ). AAAI Fellows are selected “in recognition of their significant and extended contributions to the field (contributions which typically span a decade or more), including technical results, publications, patent awards, and contributions to group efforts”. MIT is justly proud of Antonio, who is at MIT since 2000, and we are proud too! ¡Felicidades Antonio! Read More