62. Computer Vision and AI. The hype, the reality, and the future.

Computer Vision is everywhere and has become commonplace in our daily lives. 

When we use facial recognition to unlock them, when we scan documents or read a QR, when we get a spotlight video showing a curated summary of pictures (e.g. here is your son with you 4 years ago)... That is computer vision. 

When doctors use AI to analyze medical images, or sports commentators get thorough and in time analysis and stats of a sports game, or self-driving cars maneuver on the streets… That is computer vision. 

But how does it work? What impact does it have today? How is AI impacting the field? What changed in recent years, beyond the augmented hype around AI? What works well, and what doesn’t? Why? What is the potential for the future?

These are some of the questions I asked Vladimir Iglovikov, as I interviewed him for episode 62 of The Future Of The Future podcast. 

Vladimir is the Founder and CEO at Albumentations.AI, an open-source library with 60k daily downloads, adopted by top Computer Vision companies & Kaggle competition winners. He was a ML Engineer at Lyft,  where he led Deep Learning model development & integration for Self-Driving & Ride Sharing. He is also a Kaggle Grandmaster with Multiple ML competition wins, and an Author with 20+ publications in Deep Learning for Medical, Satellite, Street View, and Natural Images.  

He is definitely an expert on the field, and he is very good at making the complex sound simpler. I learned tons from this episode! And I am sure you also learn from it.

Things are moving fast! so buckle up and enjoy the ride.