Technologies that can interpret imagery have many potential applications. An innovative study of papers and patents in the field suggests one use case that overrides the others: human surveillance. We ...

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.… ...

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, ...

The 43rd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition kicked off its main program in Denver on Friday, June 5, bringing together more than 10,000 scientists and engineers at the ...