Computer Vision and FiftyOne Community Year in Review 2023

Voxel51 celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2023, marking a significant milestone for the company that focuses on open-source computer vision tools. The year was marked by several key developments in the field of computer vision, including GPT-4V, which enables users to instruct GPT-4 to analyze image inputs; SAM, a promptable segmentation system with zero-shot generalization capabilities; and DINOv2, a self-supervised system that can learn from any collection of images. Other notable developments included YOLO-NAS, an object detection model that outperforms competitors in terms of accuracy-speed performance; SDXL and SDXL Turbo, which enable near real-time generation of high-quality images; LoRA, a technique for parameter-efficient fine-tuning; DALL-E 3, an image generation model integrated with ChatGPT; Runway Gen-2, a multimodal AI system that can generate novel videos from text, images or video clips; Pika Labs, a startup developing an AI-powered platform for video editing and generation; and Emu Video and Emu Edit, which streamline the processes of training T2V models and precisely editing images via text prompts.