People of ACM - Fei-Fei Li

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  • People of ACM - Fei-Fei Li on May 30, 2017

    You have said that computer vision—how computers identify and understand images—will be the cornerstone technology of AI advances going forward. Can you explain why computer vision is so central?

    Let’s borrow a metaphor from nature. 540 million years ago, the first pair of eyes in the animal world became the biggest driving force of evolution’s Big Bang—the Cambrian Explosion, during which animal species exploded. Vision was the main factor to change the behaviors of animals, and to accelerate the development of brains. Humans, the most intelligent animals we know, use vision as the main sensory system for survival, navigation, manipulation, communication and everything else. In fact, it is estimated that more than half of the brain is involved in visual processing and visual intelligence. Now let’s look at our digital world. Due to the explosion of sensors, smartphones, self-driving cars, etc., the predominant form of cyberspace data is in pixels. Cisco has estimated that more than 80% of the data on the Internet is in some kind of pixel form. YouTube alone sees hundreds of hours of videos uploaded to its servers every 60 seconds! So just like in the animal world, vision is going to be a major driving force of the evolution of machine intelligence. It is a universal application across every single vertical industry, and it is one of the most important capabilities that an intelligent machine should have, whether it is a self-driving car, or a healthcare diagnostic system, or a smart classroom, or the future of manufacturing.

    http://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2017/fei-fei-li

    Fei-Fei Li is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. She is also the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) and the Stanford Vision Lab

    Et les institutions de renseignements, les plus grands conomateurs ET investisseurs dans le domaine, ils font aussi ça pour reconnaitre leur chien sur leurs photos de vacance ?
    Elle n’oublie pas, elle évite tout vocabulaire concernant le flicage, la surveillance, la terreur, que ses premiers clients nous imposent.

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