We are in the middle of a huge boom in artificial intelligence (AI), with unprecedented investment in research, a supercharged pace of innovation and sky-high expectations. But what is driving this ...

The nature of scientific progress is that it sometimes provides powerful tools that can be wielded for good or for ill: splitting the atom and nuclear weapons being a case in point. In such cases, ...

A bottomless appetite for tracking people as 'objects' A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.… ...

Visual computing researchers from SFU received multiple awards at the annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) this past week. CVPR is the premier conference in computer ...