Computer vision and image recognition are terms that are often used synonymously, but the former encompasses more than just analyzing pictures. That’s because, even for humans, “seeing” also involves ...

Welcome to TNW’s beginner’s guide to AI. This (currently) four part feature should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works. The guide contains ...

In the last five years, facial recognition has become a battleground for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). This controversial technology encapsulates public fears about inescapable ...

Computer vision, or the ability of artificially intelligent systems to “see” like humans, has been a subject of increasing interest and rigorous research for decades now. As a way of emulating the ...

Computer vision – the ability of a machine to ‘infer’ or extract useful information from a two-dimensional image or an uncompressed video stream of images – has the ability to change our lives. It can ...

Computers can already recognize you in an image, but can they see a video or real-world objects and tell exactly what’s going on? Researchers are trying to make computer video recognition a reality, ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong saw same interesting vision technology at the Intel Developer Forum and Design East/Embedded Vision Summit. This includes PointGrab's 3D vision recognition using a Webcam ...

Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and reviewing them since built-in Wi-Fi was an optional feature. He also covers almost anything connected to a PC, including ...

The Department of Homeland Security has a scary vision for expanding face recognition surveillance into our everyday lives, threatening a dystopian future in which the technology is used throughout ...