Kaia Health, a self-styled digital therapeutics” startup, has pulled in $10 million in Series A funding for an app-based approach to chronic pain management. The idea is to offer an alternative to painkillers, using mobile technology to deliver what the founder describes as multimodal, “mind body therapy” for musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders — comprised of guided […]
View More Kaia Health gets $10M support for AI-powered management of chronic painCategory: Computer Vision
Computer vision startup AnyVision pulls in new funding from Lightspeed
While there have been a few massive surveillance startups in China that have raised funds on the back of computer vision advances, there’s seemed to be less fervor outside of that market. Tel Aviv-based AnyVision is aiming to leverage its computer vision chops in tracking people and objects to create some pretty clear utility for the […]
View More Computer vision startup AnyVision pulls in new funding from LightspeedAgtech startup Imago AI is using computer vision to boost crop yields
Presenting onstage today in the 2018 TC Disrupt Berlin Battlefield is Indian agtech startup Imago AI, which is applying AI to help feed the world’s growing population by increasing crop yields and reducing food waste. As startup missions go, it’s an impressively ambitious one. The team, which is based out of Gurgaon near New Delhi, […]
View More Agtech startup Imago AI is using computer vision to boost crop yieldsThat night, a forest flew: DroneSeed is planting trees from the air
Wildfires are consuming our forests the institutions and technologies to keep these environments healthy have suffered decades of neglect. DroneSeed is a Seattle-based startup that aims to combat this problem with drones, artificial intelligence, and biological engineering. And it’s even more complicated than it sounds.
View More That night, a forest flew: DroneSeed is planting trees from the airWalmart’s test store for new technology, Sam’s Club Now, opens next week in Dallas
Walmart’s warehouse club, Sam’s Club is preparing to open the doors at a new Dallas area store that will serve as a testbed for the latest in retail technology. Specifically, the retailer will test out new concepts like mobile checkout, an Amazon Go-like camera system for inventory management, electronic shelf labels, wayfinding technology for in-store […]
View More Walmart’s test store for new technology, Sam’s Club Now, opens next week in DallasNYU and Facebook team up to supercharge MRI scans with AI
Magnetic resonance imaging is an invaluable tool in the medical field, but it’s also a slow and cumbersome process. It may take hour to complete a scan, during which time the patient, perhaps a child or someone in serious pain, must sit perfectly still. NYU has been working on a way to accelerate this process, and is now collaborating with Facebook with the goal of cutting down MRI durations by 90 percent.
View More NYU and Facebook team up to supercharge MRI scans with AIBody scanning app 3DLOOK raises $1 million to measure your corpus
3D body scanning systems have hit the big time after years of stops and starts. Hot on the heels of Original Stitch’s Bodygram, another 3D scanner, 3DLOOK, has entered into the fray with a $1 million investment to measure bodies around the world. The founders, Vadim Rogovskiy, Ivan Makeev, and Alex Arapovd, created 3DLOOK when […]
View More Body scanning app 3DLOOK raises $1 million to measure your corpusComputer vision researchers build an AI benchmark app for Android phones
A group of computer vision researchers from ETH Zurich want to do their bit to enhance AI development on smartphones. To wit: They’ve created a benchmark system for assessing the performance of several major neural network architectures used for common AI tasks. They’re hoping it will be useful to other AI researchers but also to […]
View More Computer vision researchers build an AI benchmark app for Android phonesIndustrial robots startup Gideon Brothers raises $765K led by TransferWise co-founder
Gideon Brothers, an ambitious startup out of Croatia that is building autonomous robots to put to work in warehouses and other industrial logistics, has quietly raised $765,000 in funding. The round is led by TransferWise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus, who has become an increasingly active investor, recently backing fintech Cleo, legal tech startup Juro, and satellite […]
View More Industrial robots startup Gideon Brothers raises $765K led by TransferWise co-founderFootball matches land on your table thanks to augmented reality
It’s World Cup season, so that means that even articles about machine learning have to have a football angle. Today’s concession to the beautiful game is a system that takes 2D videos of matches and recreates them in 3D so you can watch them on your coffee table (assuming you have some kind of augmented reality setup, which you almost certainly don’t). It’s not as good as being there, but it might be better than watching it on TV.
View More Football matches land on your table thanks to augmented realityWhat’s under those clothes? This system tracks body shapes in real time
With augmented reality coming in hot and depth tracking cameras due to arrive on flagship phones, the time is right to improve how computers track the motions of people they see — even if that means virtually stripping them of their clothes. A new computer vision system that does just that may sound a little creepy, but it definitely has its uses.
View More What’s under those clothes? This system tracks body shapes in real timeFacebook’s new AI research is a real eye-opener
There are plenty of ways to manipulate photos to make you look better, remove red eye or lens flare, and so on. But so far the blink has proven a tenacious opponent of good snapshots. That may change with research from Facebook that replaces closed eyes with open ones in a remarkably convincing manner.
View More Facebook’s new AI research is a real eye-opener