Meenaz Merchant’s official title is Principal Program Manager Lead, AI and Research, Bing. He says simply: head of the multimedia team. The first thing I learned is that the same team builds the ...

Back in 2001, two computer scientists, Paul Viola and Michael Jones, triggered a revolution in the field of computer face detection. After years of stagnation, their breakthrough was an algorithm that ...

Abstract: Images are widely used in social networks, necessitating efficient and secure transmission, especially in bandwidth-constrained environments. This article aims to develop a color image ...

Twitter has largely abandoned an image-cropping algorithm after determining the automated system was biased. Some users complained it had a preference toward showing pictures of white people in ...

Abstract: In real-life scenarios, the field-of-view angles captured by cameras are typically constrained. This has led to a growing demand for panoramic images to cater to various applications, such ...

Google helps us think, Facebook finds us friends, and Pandora plays our own personalized soundtrack. It’s hard to say whether the computer algorithms that these services use to anticipate our needs ...