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 […]
Image Completion from SIGGRAPH 2017
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 […]
The Baidu and ImageNet Controversy
Two months ago I wrote a post about some recent controversies in the industry in computer vision. In this post I turn to the world of academia/research and write about something controversial that occurred there. But since the world of research isn’t as aggressive as that of the industry, I had to go back three […]
The Top Image Datasets and Their Challenges
In previous posts of mine I have discussed how image datasets have become crucial in the deep learning (DL) boom of computer vision of the past few years. In deep learning, neural networks are told to (more or less) autonomously discover the underlying patterns in classes of images (e.g. that bicycles are composed of two […]
The Early History of Computer Vision
I present here the early historical milestones that have led us to where we are now in computer vision. I cover the years between the 60s and early 80s.
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.
Recent Controversies in Computer Vision – From Facebook to Uber
Computer vision is a fascinating area in which to work and perform research. And, as I’ve mentioned a few times already, it’s been a pleasure to witness its phenomenal growth, especially in the last few years. However, as with pretty much anything in the world, contention also plays a part in its existence. In this […]
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 […]