Tombone's Computer Vision Blog

With all the recent advancements in end-to-end deep learning, it is now possible to train AI agents to perform many different tasks (some in simulation and some in the real-world). End-to-end le...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2019/11/computer-vision-and-visual-slam-vs-ai.html

Driven by computer vision and deep learning techniques, a new wave of imaging attacks has recently emerged which allows anyone to easily create highly realistic "fake" videos. These false videos ...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2018/05/deepfakes-ai-powered-deception-machines.html

You might go to a cutting-edge machine learning research conference like NIPS hoping to find some mathematical insight that will help you take your deep learning system's performance to the next ...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2016/12/nuts-and-bolts-of-building-deep.html

In Quantum Mechanics, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that there is a fundamental limit to how well one can measure a particle's POSITION and MOMENTUM. In the context of machine learnin...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2016/06/making-deep-networks-probabilistic-via.html

Started by the youngest members of the Deep Learning Mafia , namely Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio , the ICLR conference is quickly becoming a strong contender for the single most important venu...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2016/06/deep-learning-trends-iclr-2016.html

Last month's International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) was full of Deep Learning  techniques, but before we declare an all-out ConvNet victory, let's see how the other "non-learning" g...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2016/01/why-slam-matters-future-of-real-time.html

"GEOMETRY VS RECOGNITION" BECOMES CONVNET-FOR-X Computer Vision used to be cleanly separated into two schools: GEOMETRY and RECOGNITION. Geometric methods like structure from motion and optic...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/12/iccv-2015-twenty-one-hottest-research.html

In the last few decades, we have witnessed major technological innovations such as personal computers and the internet finally reach the mainstream. And with mobile devices and social networks on...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/11/the-deep-learning-gold-rush-of-2015.html

CVPR is the premier Computer Vision conference, and it's fair to think of it as THE OLYMPICS OF COMPUTER VISION RESEARCH. This year it was held in my own back yard -- less than a mile away from ...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/06/deep-down-rabbit-hole-cvpr-2015-and.html

BRINGING COMPUTER VISION TO THE CONSUMER Mike Aldred Electronics Lead, Dyson Ltd While vision has been a research priority for decades, the results have often remained out of reach of th...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/05/dyson-360-eye-and-baidu-deep-learning.html

In order to learn anything useful, large-scale multi-layer deep neural networks (aka Deep Learning systems) require a large amount of labeled data. There is clearly a need for big data, but only ...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/05/deep-learning-vs-big-data-who-owns-what.html

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all resp...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/04/making-visual-data-first-class-citizen.html

Today, let's take a look at three paradigms that have shaped the field of Artificial Intelligence in the last 50 years: LOGIC, PROBABILISTIC METHODS, and DEEP LEARNING. The empirical, "data-driv...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/04/deep-learning-vs-probabilistic.html

Today, let's set cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision techniques aside. You probably already know that computer vision (or "machine vision") is the branch of computer science / artif...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/04/three-fundamental-dimensions-for.html

This year's CVPR will be in Boston, and as always, I expect it to be the single best venue to meet computer vision experts and see cutting edge research. I expect Google and Facebook to show off...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/03/venture-pitch-contest-at-cvpr-2015-in.html

In Amnon Shashua's vision of the future, every car can see.  He's convinced that the key technology behind the imminent driving revolution is going to be COMPUTER VISION, and to experience this...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/03/mobileyes-quest-to-put-deep-learning.html

Lets take a close look at three related terms (Deep Learning vs Machine Learning vs Pattern Recognition), and see how they relate to some of the hottest tech-themes in 2015 (namely Robotics and ...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/03/deep-learning-vs-machine-learning-vs.html

We all know that deep convolutional neural networks have produced some stellar results on object detection and recognition benchmarks in the past two years (2012-2014), so you might wonder: what...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/01/from-feature-descriptors-to-deep.html

In this VMX screencast, witness the creation of a visual barcode detection program in under 9 minutes. You can see the entire training procedure -- creating an initial data set of labeled barcode...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2014/11/barcodes-realtime-training-and.html

I haven't posted anything here in the last few months, so let me give you guys a brief update. VMX has matured since the Prototype stage last year and the vision.ai team has already started circu...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2014/10/vmx-is-ready.html

Many of you asked if the VMX Project will come with an initial set of object detectors. Yes! VMX WILL COME EQUIPPED WITH A LIBRARY OF PRE-TRAINED OBJECT DETECTORS. We are committed to providin...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2014/01/sponsor-your-favorite-object-detector.html

Dear Kickstarters, technology enthusiasts, and STEM educators, We’re happy to announce a new reward in our Kickstarter project, one designed for free access of our robotic vision technology ...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2014/01/10-of-our-kickstarter-campaign-total.html

It's a valid question: can a person-specific face recognition algorithm be used to determine a person's race? I trained TWO SEPARATE PERSON-SPECIFIC FACE DETECTORS.  For each detector I used v...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2014/01/can-person-specific-face-recognition.html

In our computer vision startup, vision.ai , we're using open-source tools to create a one-of-a-kind object recognition experience.  Our goal is to make state-of-the-art visual object recogniti...

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2014/01/tracking-points-in-live-camera-feed.html

The following post is a result of my team launching a Kickstarter campaign two weeks ago and upgrading one of our rewards based on all the feedback we received from backers and potential backers....

https://www.computervisionblog.com/2014/01/you-asked-we-listened-vmx-will-be.html