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Researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have managed to create highly realistic 3D reconstructions of individual faces using data collected from video recordings from a smartphone camera and deep learning algorithms. Typically, the process of creating accurate 3D reconstructions of a human face requires expensive specialized scanners, cameras and a studio, not to mention […]
Google has decided to remove gendered terminology from its Cloud Vision API in an effort to avoid bias on the AI platform. The Cloud Vision API is an object recognition service that automatically identifies and labels items in photos. The API can identify anything from animals to brand logos, making it much easier to search […]
The United States Army has issued a new request for information (RFI) seeking technology that is capable of identifying people and objects through walls. The RFI states that the Army is looking for portable technology that can “detect, identify, and monitor persons, animals, and materials behind multi-leveled obstruction(s) from a long standoff range.” The Sense […]
OrCam has announced an update to its most popular device, and will be unveiling a series of new products at CES 2020 this year in Las Vegas. On the update front, OrCam’s most popular product — the OrCam MyEye 2, a small device that users clip onto their glasses to help them see the world […]
The 3D camera manufacturer Orbbec is highlighting the many potential applications of its technology at CES 2020. The company’s cameras offer object, face, and gesture recognition in addition to 3D measurement and mapping capabilities, and have already been deployed in thousands of products for the international market. The main attraction at CES is a biometric […]
Facial recognition will help to drive considerable growth in the overall image recognition market over the next several years, according to a new forecast from Fortune Business Insights. The market research firm estimates that the global image recognition market had a value of $20.19 billion in 2018, and that it will reach a whopping $81.88 […]
Innodisk has released a new AI accelerator card designed for edge devices. The card is built with a third-generation Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit (VPU) from Intel, which is particularly well-suited to computer vision applications like face and object recognition. According to Innodisk, the AI accelerator card essentially functions like the video card on a […]
RealNetworks‘ board of directors has now grown from six to eight members. One of the newly appointed board members is a former RealNetworks employee. Tim Wan joined the company back in 2002 as its Director of Business Planning and Marketing, and didn’t depart until 2012, after serving for three years as its Chief Financial Officer. […]
“Amazon claims that its system can be used to train an AI to detect an object using as few as 1- images, as opposed to the hundreds or thousands that are usually required for object recognition.” Amazon has announced a new machine learning capability for object recognition through its Rekognition platform. Called “Amazon Rekognition Custom […]
Biometrics News – Facial Recognition Visionati has released a new image recognition API designed for the enterprise. The API tags and categorizes a range of different objects (including human faces), allowing customers to rapidly scan photos and videos for the data points that will be most relevant to their business. In addition to recognizing different […]
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