We take our understanding of where we are for granted, until we lose it. When we get lost in nature or a new city, our eyes and brains kick into gear, seeking familiar objects that tell us where we ...

Facebook has launched a new accessibility feature, called automatic alternative text (AAT), that is aimed at blind and visually impaired people. It uses object recognition technology to produce an ...

IBM developer Nicholas Bourdakos recently created a new Code Pattern that lets just about anyone develop and train an AI model to recognize objects using computer vision. Bourdakos’ Code Pattern, ...

Do humans learn the same way as computers? Cognitive psychologists have debated this question for decades, but in the past few years the remarkable accomplishments of deep-learning computer systems ...

The general problem of recognition from stereo processing, laser scanning, or ordinary image data provides basic environmental information for a robot to act autonomously. Results may be the identity ...

Bossa Nova, the company behind the shelf-scanning robots that Walmart has been experimenting with in select retail locations, just acquired artificial intelligence company HawXeye. A Carnegie Mellon ...