Industrial IoT startup Sight Machine raises $5M, expands to robots
All ur data r belong to us
Sight Machine, a startup trying to simplify the collection and analysis of industrial data, has raised a $5 million venture capital round…
Computer vision
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DARPA-funded research IDs sex traffickers with machine learning
Computers helping cops
Carnegie Mellon University is touting a new $3.6 million research grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to build…
AI is coming to IoT, and not all the brains will be in the cloud
Moore's Law and then some
Smart devices, appliances and the internet of things are dominating International CES this week, but we’re probably just getting a small taste of…
A startup wants to quantify video content using computer vision
Deep learning meets JSON
Computer vision has seen some major advances over the past couple of years, and a New York-based startup called Dextro wants to take the…
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Fyusion’s cool 3D photos could one day power user-generated VR
Turn around, touch the ground
San Francisco-based computer vision startup Fyusion released a new version of its Fyuse app for iOS and Android Wednesday that allows consumers to record…
Oculus boosts its computer vision team with trio of acquisitions
Can you see me now?
Virtual reality headsets have all drifted toward a similar ski goggle-like form. But exactly how we interact with them is still evolving.…
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Allen Foundation gives millions to teach machines common sense
The dawn of book learning CPUs
The Paul G. Allen Foundation announced on Wednesday that it has awarded $5.7 million in grants to five projects that aim to teach machines to understand what they see and read. That can be anything from a photograph to a chart, a diagram to an entire textbook.
Algorithm takes the ‘average’ of photos, perhaps proving that is how you always look
An algorithm can discern a baseline image of just about anything by averaging its features across a collection of photos. Finally, we can answer questions such as what the average internet cat looks like, or whether I really do always look angry. Or perhaps do useful stuff.
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IBM’s SyNAPSE chip moves even closer to brain-like computing
Lead researcher Dharmendra Modha described the chip as “a supercomputer the size of a stamp, the weight of a feather.”
Researchers create an algorithm that makes highlight reels from long videos
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created a method called LiveLight that they claim can watch generally uneventful videos and pick out the parts that viewers probably want, or need, to see.
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Premise raises $11M for its crowdsourced economic data platform
Premise, the company trying to reinvent macroeconomic indicators in developing countries, has raised an $11 million series B round led by Social+Capital…
How to analyze 100 million images for $624
How to analyze 100 million images for $624 O’Reilly Radar has a useful post from Jetpac CTO Pete Warden on how his…
Researchers bypass facial recognition by building social networks from photo tags
A new algorithm from University of Toronto researchers can predict the identity of untagged photo subjects by analyzing the relationships of the other people (or things) in the photo.
