IEEE

A Review of Computer Vision for Railways

Abstract: Modern railways continue to strive for remote and automated methods to improve the visual inspection procedures for their assets. In some cases, these inspections provide new information ...

Vertebrate paleontology has a numbers problem. Computer vision can help

How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm? According to a new study co-authored by Bruce ...

Robot pollinator uses computer vision to shake flowers and boost indoor farm yields

Indoor farms, also known as vertical farms, are popular among agricultural researchers and are expanding across the ...

How the Docutain Photo Payment SDK is shaping the future of digital payments

The current state of payment workflows Despite rapid digitization, many payment workflows still suffer from structural inefficiencies such as the manual data entry of invoices, IBANs, amounts, and ...
Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

Manjunath – Appointed Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair

ECE Prof. B.S. Manjunath, is honored as the first Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair — one four endowed chairs in the department From the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering News (RMCOE) article ...
IEEE

Transforming Disability Into Ability: An Explainable Vision-to-Voice Image Captioning Framework Using Transformer Models and Edge Computing

Abstract: Image captioning is an emerging field at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing (NLP). It has shown great potential to enhance accessibility by automatically ...
9to5google

Gemini 3 Flash’s new ‘Agentic Vision’ improves image responses

Agentic Vision is a new capability for the Gemini 3 Flash model to make image-related tasks more accurate by “grounding answers in visual evidence.” Frontier AI models like Gemini typically process ...
EurekAlert!

Breakthroughs in optical image processing powered by vision-language models

The field of optical image processing is undergoing a transformation driven by the rapid development of vision-language models (VLMs). A new review article published in iOptics details how these ...
AppleInsider

M5 Apple Vision Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy XR: Processing power vs. AI

The M5 Apple Vision Pro now has a serious competitor from Samsung's with the Galaxy XR headset. Here's how the two devices compare. Following the debut of the new and improved M5 Apple Vision Pro, ...
The Conversation

AI systems and humans ‘see’ the world differently – and that’s why AI images look so garish

T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is an affiliate with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society. How do computers see the world? It’s ...
MacRumors

Dolby Vision 2 Debuts With Solution for HDR Content That's 'Too Dark'

Dolby today unveiled Dolby Vision 2, a next-generation version of the popular Dolby Vision HDR format. Dolby Vision 2 features a more powerful image engine that Dolby says "unlocks even more out of ...