Recapping the Computer Vision Meetup — August 24, 2023

The August 24, 2023 Computer Vision Meetup featured presentations on automatic background removal from images using user language input and optimizing deep learning models for edge devices. Jizhizi Li discussed her research on image matting and shared insights into the differences between semantic and matting branches, noise suppression filters, encoder architecture optimization, and more. Raz Petel of SightX explored techniques for deploying AI on edge devices, focusing on hardware-aware optimization of deep learning models. Dan Gural from Voxel51 covered drone applications in computer vision, challenges faced with drone data, and emerging trends like Generative AI. The next Computer Vision Meetup is scheduled for September 7, featuring speakers discussing monitoring large language models (LLMs) in production, neural radiance fields for free-viewpoint videos, and a dataset for long-form video understanding.