Computer Vision News - February 2022

12 AI 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! University of Amsterdam Spinoff Launches Elderly Monitoring Tech We have already talked in these pages about AI applications aimed at monitoring elderly activities to improve the protection of this vulnerable population. What is special at Kepler Vision Technologies is that privacy of the patient is protected in that the nurse does not see the video itself: sensor and software solution are designed to transform a monitored video feed into text to alert the care staff when they are needed. For example, a video feed showing an elderly resident fallen on the floor is indicated by the message “ In room 13 a client has fallen who needs help ”. They claim to eliminate 99% of false alarms. Read More Introducing the First Self- Supervised Algorithm for Speech, Vision and Text We all know that convergence of modalities speech, vision and text is a thing. Facebook - oops Meta - is announcing data2vec , the first high-performance self-supervised algorithm that learns the same way in multiple modalities. This is fully consistent with what Yann LeCun told us during his famous interview with Computer Vision News and his interest in self-supervised learning for the coming years. With data2vec, Meta is closer to building machines that learn about different aspects of the world around them without having to rely on labeled data . Read it again here. This ‘Seasam’ Drone Can Autonomously Follow Divers and Performs Underwater Tasks As you know, this magazine is very fond of scuba diving . We proved it with this pic from Hawaii! Today’snews is inthisunderwaterdrone- iBubble - which autonomously follows and records the actions of scuba divers, while being capable of wirelessly following them . Manufactured by a French marine tech company - Notilo Plus - it was even featured in a French horror flick that we don’t care to mention. It works on acoustic signals emitted by a control unit carried by the diver and on an onboard 1080p/20fpss camera and visual recognition system able to detect each single diver. Watch the Video Read More