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18 February 2015
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Photoshop turning 25, a face detection breakthrough, volunteer photographers capturing babies lost at birth and Nikkor lens design philosophy.
- Tomorrow, Photoshop turns 25. In A Thriving Chameleon Adapts to an Instagram World, Farhad Majoo marvels at a product that "has not just survived but thrived through every major technological transition in its lifetime: the rise of the Web, the decline of print publishing, the rise and fall of home printing and the supernova of digital photography."
- The Face Detection Algorithm Set to Revolutionize Image Search "can spot faces from a wide range of angles, even when partially occluded. And it can spot many faces in the same image with remarkable accuracy." Sachin Farfade and Mohammad Saberian at Yahoo Labsand Li-Jia Li at Stanford University relied on "a type of machine learning known as a deep convolutional neural network" to accomplish the feat, coming soon to a facial search engine near you.
- In Volunteer photographers preserve families' memories of babies lost at birth, Carol Christian writes about Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. The network of 1,6000 volunteer photographers make portraits for the grieving families.
- What do designers think and how do they create lenses? is the first in a series of Nikon interviews on the philosophy behind its lenses. Takayuki Sensui and Toshinori Take talk about the tradeoffs in lens design in this one.
More to come...