AI & Robotics

The AI event of the year for business leaders, Transform 2020 doubles down on results-driven content that helps executives at the senior director level and above maintain their competitive edge. Expect two days of the most transformative trends in conversational AI, computer vision, IoT and AI at the edge, and automation, plus a special emphasis on women in AI, diversity, and expanded networking…

The European Union is set to release new regulations for artificial intelligence that are expected to focus on transparency and oversight as the region seeks to differentiate its approach from those of the United States and China. On Wednesday, EU tech chief Margrethe Vestager will unveil a wide-ranging plan designed to bolster the region’s competitiveness. While transformative technologies such…

Sports analytics, which refers to the use of data and statistics to measure the performance of players (or teams) and make informed coaching decisions, is an enormous market. Grand View Research pegs its worth at $4.6 billion by 2025, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 31.2% from 2019. Perhaps unsurprisingly, startups are pursuing it with gusto, and one of the pack leaders is PlaySight.

Video filmed and edited for TV is typically created and viewed in landscape, but problematically, aspect ratios like 16:9 and 4:3 don’t always fit the display being used for viewing. Fortunately, Google is on the case. It today detailed AutoFlip, an open source tool for intelligent video reframing. Given a video and a target dimension, it analyzes the video content and develops optimal tracking…