Computer Vision News - January 2023

2 Editorial Computer Vision News Editor: Ralph Anzarouth Engineering Editors: Marica Muffoletto Ioannis Valasakis Publisher: RSIP Vision Copyright: RSIP Vision All rights reserved Unauthorized reproduction is strictly forbidden. Dear reader, Happy New Year! On behalf of RSIP Vision , we wish all our readers and the community a successful 2023. This year, we will continue our pioneering work in Medical Image Analysis and AI and have many surprises in store, so stay tuned! This month, we have an overview of not one but TWO award-winning Best Papers , continuing our tradition of bringing you the best of the best work out there. We hear about SMILE lab , where Ruogu Fang and her teamare doing revolutionary work on AI andmachine learning for neurodegenerative diseases. Lucky students of December’s HamlynWinter School on Surgical Imaging and Vision will begin the year fully up to date on the state of the art in surgical robotics. Matina Giannarou fills us in on the week- long event. Also, Ioannis Valasakis reviews feature extraction layers in ConvNets, a fabulous computer vision tool. Enjoy all that and so much more in January’s issue of Computer Vision News. Remember to tell all your friends and colleagues about us so they can subscribe for free too! Ralph Anzarouth, Editor, Computer Vision News, Marketing Manager, RSIP Vision Follow Us A big thank you to Ralph Anzarouth and the team at RSIP Vision for their dedication to serving the community with such an amazing magazine! Fabio Pizzati, Postdoc at University of Oxford This photo was taken in peaceful, lovely and brave Odessa, Ukraine.