Intel Acquires Car Sensor Specialist Mobileye

Intel Corp. continued its foray into the autonomous vehicle sector this week with the acquisition of computer vision and machine-learning specialist Mobileye for about $15 billion in cash. Betting that autonomous vehi Read more…

Beauty Contest Features Algorithmic Judges

It's often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That concept will be put to the test next year during a unique beauty contest where robots trained by deep neural networks will judge human contestants based on Read more…

Mapping Startup Leverages Machine Vision

A Swedish mapping startup that uses machine vision to stitch together street-level photos is ramping up a service that uses proprietary algorithms to connect crowd-sourced photos of street scenes "over space and time." Read more…

Three Unique Ways Machine Learning Is Being Used In the Real World

Machine learning has emerged as the key technology enabling predictive analytic uses cases upon big data. Accompanying that emergence is a set of common use cases, such as fraud detection in credit card processing and pr Read more…

Kaggle Tackles Whale of an Identification Problem

Kaggle has hosted lots of different data science competitions over the years, but none quite like the one launched by NOAA Fisheries earlier this year. The government agency, with financial support from MATLAB creator Ma Read more…

GPU-Powered Tagging Service ‘Gets’ the Big Picture

Picture sharing has blossomed on the Internet, thanks to the ubiquitous camera-phone, 4G cell service, and social media sites like Pintrest and Instagram. However, the ability of organizations to interpret and understand Read more…