Computer Vision

While Hangzhou’s DeepSeek flexed its muscles, Chinese tech giant Alibaba vied for the spotlight with new open vision-language models.

Chinese robot makers Unitree and EngineAI showed off relatively low-priced humanoid robots that could bring advanced robotics closer to everyday applications.

Contrastive loss functions make it possible to produce good embeddings without labeled data. A twist on this idea makes even more useful embeddings.

Mistral AI unveiled Pixtral Large, which rivals top models at processing combinations of text and images.

An open source model is designed to perform sophisticated object detection on edge devices like phones, cars, medical equipment, and smart doorbells.

An AI system is scouring battlefields for landmines and other unexploded ordnance, enabling specialists to defuse them.

Amazon withdrew Just Walk Out, an AI-driven checkout service, from most of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores...

Indian farmers used chatbots and computer vision to produce higher yields at lower costs. The state government of Telangana in South India partnered with agricultural aid organization Digital Green to provide AI tools to chili farmers. 

A novel twist on self-supervised learning aims to improve on earlier methods by helping vision models learn how parts of an image relate to the whole.

Google’s new mobile phones put advanced computer vision and audio research into consumers’ hands. The Alphabet division introduced its flagship Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones at its annual hardware-launch event. Both units feature AI-powered tools for editing photos and videos.

Vision transformers typically process images in patches of fixed size. Smaller patches yield higher accuracy but require more computation. A new training method lets AI engineers adjust the tradeoff.

Governments are repurposing Covid-focused face recognition systems as tools of repression. Russia’s internal security forces are using Moscow’s visual surveillance system, initially meant to help enforce pandemic-era restrictions, to crack down on anti-government...

Images in the wild may not come with labels, but they often include metadata. A new training method takes advantage of this information to improve contrastive learning.

AiSCOUT uses computer vision to grade amateur footballers and recommends those who score highest to representatives of professional teams.

A drive-through system from UVeye automatically inspects vehicles for dents, leaks, and low tire pressure.