Every time a smartphone snaps a photo, millions of tiny light detectors capture the scene and then ferry all that raw data across the chip to a separate processor for storage and number-crunching.

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(Nanowerk Spotlight) In the age of big data, we are generating more images than we can actually process. Autonomous vehicles, medical scanners, and quality control systems rely heavily on ...

The field of optical image processing is undergoing a transformation driven by the rapid development of vision-language models (VLMs). A new review article published in iOptics details how these ...

The tremendous growth of deep learning models, especially the success of generative AI and foundation models, has led to their deployment in several critical sectors, including biometric recognition, ...

Here’s something fun. Our hacker [Willow Cunningham] has sent us a copy of their homework. This is their final project for the “ECE 574: Cluster Computing” course at the University of Maine, Orono. It ...

ChatGPT's image generation tool rolled out to free users this week — which means pretty much everyone can now use OpenAI's tool to create images. There are, obviously, endless things you can do with ...

This month, ChatGPT unveiled a new image generator as part of its 4o model that is a lot better at generating text inside images. People are already using it to generate fake restaurant receipts, ...

When OpenAI teased a surprise livestream on Tuesday, I was certain it wasn't exactly a surprise. Instead, we were probably looking at some sort of pre-planned damage control. The entire world knew ...