NeRF: Photorealistic Image Synthesis, Free Roboflow Credits, CVAT Attributes Tutorial

Greetings from San Francisco to wherever you are in the world. In this edition of the OpenCV Newsletter you'll find?a fresh look at Neural Radiance Fields, or NeRFs, a technology which is taking the computer vision world by storm, and the latest?CVAT Product Tour video. We've also got great news for OpenCV AI Competition 2023 participants- including?free training credits from OpenCV member Roboflow! Read on to find out more.

A Short Review of Neural Radiance Fields aka NeRFs

From the OpenCV.AI blog, a birds-eye view of a technology taking the computer vision world by storm: NeRFs. At the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference this year NeRF was the most popular poster topic by far. Learn the basics from OpenCV.AI consulting the team.

OpenCV AI Competition Press Release & Free Model Training Credits

Several of the registered participants (already 700 strong!) for?OpenCV AI Competition 2023?have reached out to ask for help training AI models, which can be an expensive process.?OpenCV member Roboflow has stepped up to offer all competitors free credits?to be used on their platform. All you need to do is register to be a participant on the official competition webpage, and then apply for the credits on?a Roboflow form.?

Remember: The Phase 1 deadline is August 31st, so form your team and submit a proposal before that date in order to complete! We wish the best of luck to all of you.

Speaking of?#OpenCV2023, we're so excited about the partnership between OpenCV and Hackster we had to tell the world with?a press release. Share it around if you can, and help us make this the biggest OpenCV competition ever.

CVAT Attributes: Labels that make more sense

We are thrilled to introduce?a new product tour video?–?CVAT.ai?Label Attributes, a game-changing feature that will add an extra layer of context and meaning to your computer vision annotations. With?CVAT.ai?Attributes, you will enrich your annotations with descriptive Labels, providing valuable information for enhanced comprehension and analysis.

That's all for today! Have a great week.

– The OpenCV Team