computer vision is one of the most
promising frontiers in the technology
world
it covers applications across dozens of
industries ranging from agriculture to
medicine self-driving cars and even
shopping all of these applications share
the need for computers to figure out
what their cameras are seeing and for
those computers to tell them what to do
next
this phenomenon is powered by a new
generation of sophisticated cameras
especially on smartphones just as the
vast computing power needed to process
millions of images has become much
cheaper there's one small nation at this
industry's forefront Israel here things
are being led by companies like mobile
eye which uses a dozen cheap cameras to
guide curb type of autonomous cars right
through traffic in 2017
until paid fifteen point three billion
dollars to acquire this technology
Israeli startups working in computer
vision have attracted more than a
billion dollars in seed and venture
capital funding over the past three
years that's up from just fifty-six
million dollars in 2015
Israel has a huge advantage a heavy
concentration of Engineers in a very
small area plus experience that they
have built up through military
applications of image analysis
technology the development of massive
databases has also given Israeli
companies a valuable head start
these include zebra medical accuses AI
to scan millions of MRI and other images
from around the world eventually guiding
radiologists to the slightest sign of
disease at a start-up called F DNA
engineers have figured out how to use a
picture of someone's face to try and
reveal rare genetic disorders meanwhile
Trego is racing against Amazon to
perfect the technology for a cashier
less store where cameras figure out what
shoppers have in their baskets and
charge them automatically the system is
being trialed in several hundred stores
across Israel as this industry continues
to grow the applications of computer
vision seem almost endless
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