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    Facebook Open Sources Its Object Recognition Machine Vision Software

    Facebook has decided to make its set of vision software tools, used for object recognition in images, available to everyone by open sourcing the project. The set of tools, DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet, were developed by the Facebook AI Research team and essentially work towards a process called segmentation to recognise objects by their shapes […]

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    Russia’s VisionLabs Collaborates With Facebook, Google on Machine Vision

    HIGHLIGHTS The joint project with Facebook and Google was launched last year. VisionLabs integrated two popular libraries – OpenCV and Torch. Google and Facebook funded the work and tested the results of VisionLabs. A Russian developer in Skolkovo has created an open source computer vision platform, in collaboration with Facebook and Google, that acts as […]

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    Google Cloud Vision Helps Computers To ‘See’ Pictures

    It’s a lady and she is joyful about being open for business in Spanish – Google knows that much just from the picture. Image: Google The Google GOOGL -1.66% Cloud Vision venture is developing. The project is designed to help computers ‘see’ images and understand what they depict and represent. Heavily aligned towards the needs of […]