In between the last OpenCV AI Competition 2021 update and this one, we made a big decision- the Competition deadlines have been extended due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on many teams abilities to complete their projects. The official webpage has been updated with the new dates. Along with our partners, OpenCV also […]
OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Highlights and Team Profiles Part 4
It’s been a few weeks since our last post, but things have definitely not slowed down in OpenCV AI Competition 2021! We’ve got a slew of highlights in this post, as well as interviews with two more of the amazing teams in this worldwide competition. In this post we’re featuring a short question and answer […]
Evaluating OpenCV’s new RANSACs
Spoiler: They’re much better now! OpenCV RANSAC is dead. Long live the OpenCV USAC! Last year a group of researchers including myself from UBC, Google, CTU in Prague and EPFL published a paper “Image Matching across Wide Baselines: From Paper to Practice“, which, among other messages, has shown that OpenCV RANSAC for fundamental matrix estimation […]
OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Highlights and Team Profiles Part 1
If social media is any indication, OpenCV AI Competition 2021 participants have really hit the ground running. The competition, sponsored by Microsoft Azure and Intel, features over 1000 developers on over 200 Phase 1 winning teams worldwide and our feeds are already buzzing with awesome videos and photos as teams take their first steps toward […]