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 and the Google Wing Project
Delivery drones are now a thing. Google has a project dedicated to just this: Google Wing Project.
My Top 5 Posts So Far
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 […]
Smartphone Camera Technology from Google and Nokia
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. […]
Google’s Dataset Search Engine – Find The Dataset You Need Here
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.
Seeing Around Corners with a Laser
In this post show you some results of a paper that was published in the prestigious Nature journal. It’s on the topic of non-line-of-sight imaging or, in other words, it’s about trying to see around corners.
Heart Rate Estimation Using Computer Vision
Heart rate estimation belongs in the field called “Vital Signal Estimation”. One famous attempt at this comes from a paper entitled “Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World”
Image Steganography – Simple Examples
In my last post I introduced the field of image steganography. In this post I present two very simple ways secret messages can be hidden in digital images.
Image Steganography – An Introduction
In this post (part 1 of 2) I would like to introduce the topic of image steganography, which is the practice of concealing secret messages in digital images.
Image Colourisation – Converting B&W Photos to Colour
I got another great academic publication to present to you – and this publication also comes with an online interactive website for you to use to your heart’s content. The paper is from the field of image colourisation. Image colourisation (or ‘colorization’ for our US readers :P) is the act of taking a black and white […]