Oh, I love stumbling upon fascinating publications from the academic world! This post will present to you yet another one of those little gems that has recently fallen into my lap. It’s on the topic of image completion and comes from a paper published in SIGGRAPH 2017 entitled “Globally and Locally Consistent Image Completion” (project page […]
Watch Football/Soccer on Your Tabletop using Virtual Reality
In this post I present to you quite an amazing paper I stumbled upon entitled “Soccer on Your Tabletop” from CVPR 2018.
Computer Vision in the Fashion Industry – Part 3
In my last two posts (part 1 can be found here, part 2 can be found here) I’ve looked at computer vision and the fashion industry. I introduced the lucrative fashion industry and showed what Microsoft recently did in this field with computer vision. I also presented two papers from last year’s International Conference on Computer […]
Computer Vision in the Fashion Industry – Part 2
(Update: this post is part 2 of a 3 part series on CV and fashion. Part 1 can be found here, part 3 can be found here.) In my last post I introduced the fashion industry and I gave an example of what Microsoft recently did in this field with computer vision. In today’s post, I […]
Computer Vision on Mars from the 2004 Exploration Rovers
In this post I’m going to present to you how, where, and when computer vision was used by the Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) that landed on Mars in 2004.
Machines That Can Read Our Minds from MRI Scans
This paper claims to be able to reconstruct images that people are looking at or thinking about by analysing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Gait Recognition is Another Form of Biometric Identification
I was watching The Punisher on Netflix last week and there was a scene (no spoilers, promise) in which someone was recognised from CCTV footage by the way they were walking. “Surely, that’s another example of Hollywood BS“, I thought to myself – “there’s no way that’s even remotely possible”. So, I spent the last […]
Lie Detection with Thermal Imaging – A Task for Computer Vision
Can thermal imaging detect if you’re lying or not? It sure can! And are there frightening prospects with respect to this technology? Yes, there are! Read on to find out what scientists have recently done in this area – and all using image processing techniques. Thermal Imaging Thermal imaging (aka infrared thermography, thermographic imaging, and infrared […]
Extracting Images from Reflections in the Eye
Ever thought about whether you could zoom in on someone’s eye in a photo and analyse the reflection on it? Read on to find out what research has done in this respect! A previous post of mine discussed the idea of enhancing regions in an image for better clarity much like we often see in Hollywood […]