Computer Vision News - September 2022

24 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! GTC - The Conference for the Era of AI and the Metaverse The kind folks at NVIDIA invite us to a much-awaited online conference, where we will explore the game-changing technologies that help us take on the world’s greatest challenges. There will obviously be a keynote by their CEO and Founder Jensen Huang and a very exciting panel about the AI Journey from Academics to Entrepreneurship including Matthias Nießner of Synthesia (see page 4 of this magazine) and Raquel Urtasun of Waabi . Another panel about the future of AI includes Yoshua Bengio , Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun . Both panels are moderated by awesome Sanja Fidler of NVIDIA ! Read More Amazon's Palm Payments Arrive in More than 65 Whole Foods Stores in California You have probably heard about the Amazon One technology, which they define as the fast, convenient, contactless identity service that uses your palm – just hover to enter, identify, and pay! Indeed, the slogan is “ Simply by being you ”. Now they start rolling out Amazon One to more than 65 Whole Foods shops in California, starting with Malibu, Montana Avenue and Santa Monica locations in Los Angeles. If you want to know how it works, you will need to ask Amazon themselves . In the meantime, some venues are not very warm about using biometric authentication as an identification tool. Read More A New Educational Project from AI HOUSE to Support the Ukrainian Tech Community World-class AI experts share their cutting- edge knowledge in a series of AI livestreams. Attendees donate any amount to register and help to save the lives of Ukrainians . We at Computer Vision News have never hidden our sympathy and support for the Ukrainian cause, witness my own photo on page 2 of this magazine and the daily Ukrainian Corner that we published every day in the most recent CVPR Daily magazines, featuring computer vision work by Ukrainian scientists. Among the participating AI speakers: Yoshua Bengio and awesome Anna Rohrbach , herself born and bred in Odessa. Every donation is a huge help! Read More