Fine-grained image recognition is a challenging area of computer vision that focuses on distinguishing nearly identical subcategories within a broader basic-level category. The task demands the ...

Suppose you have a collection of digital photos you took on a trip to a zoo. You want to programmatically classify each photo as one of the 100 different kinds of animals you photographed: "aardvark," ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Deep learning has revolutionized the machine understanding of imagery.

The research paper, published in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, leverage a custom convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract both local and global features for classifying hand gestures, by ...

In the race to continue building more sophisticated AI deep learning models, Facebook has a secret weapon: billions of images on Instagram. In research the company is presenting today at F8, Facebook ...

Computer vision systems are not only good enough to be useful, but in some cases more accurate than human vision Computer vision identifies and often locates objects in digital images and videos.

Google Image Search has finally implemented some of the technology that Google acquired with its purchase of Neven Vision last August. Now searchers on Google can block the images of certain people or ...

Pounce, a recently launched mobile shopping app that allows consumers to snap photos of items found in circulars, print ads, and catalogs in order to purchase directly from their smartphones, is out ...