Posts presenting and discussing new research or technology
Have you ever wondered how the technology that unlocks your phone with your face works? This is a fascinating question and, interestingly, Samsung and Apple provide very different technologies for this feature on their devices. This post will examine the differences between the two technologies and will also show you how either of the two […]
Here I describe a specific facial recognition algorithm – one that changed things forever: FaceNet by Google.
I present to you a paper from ICCV 2019 that proposes a fast and impressive method to de-identify videos in real-time. We all more privacy in our lives.
This is a bit of a fun post about a “dataset” I stumbled upon a few days ago… a dataset of cat videos. As I’ve mentioned numerous times in various posts of mine, the deep learning revolution that is driving the recent advancements in AI around the world needs data. Lots and lots of data. For […]
Michael F. Cohen, the Director of Facebook’s Computational Photography Research team, has received the 2019 Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics. Here is one of his contributions to photography.
Google Glass was a flop. But what about glasses for the blind that tell the wearer what is in front of them? Or read a physical book for them?
Delivery drones are now a thing. Google has a project dedicated to just this: Google Wing Project.
It’s been nearly 18 months since I started this blog. I did it to share my journey in computer vision with you. I love this field and I’m always stumbling across such fascinating things that I feel as though more people should know about them. I’ve seen this blog grow in popularity – much, much more than I […]
A few days ago Nokia unveiled its new smartphone: the Nokia 9 PureView. It looks kind of weird (or maybe funky?) with its 5 cameras at its rear (see image above). But what’s interesting is how Nokia uses these 5 cameras to give you better quality photos with a technique called High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging. […]
Did you know that there is now a search engine for datasets that is powered by Google? It’s something that we have been needing for years.