Pengyuan Li of IBM Research returns to OpenCV Live, following his August 2025 appearance where he introduced Granite Vision, IBM’s lightweight open vision-language model built for enterprise document understanding. This time the focus shifts from the model to the workflow: how Granite Vision pairs with Docling, IBM’s open-source document conversion toolkit, to turn PDFs, scans,…
The goal behind this session is to explain to developers how Visual SLAM maps differ from VPS maps, and how to approach challenges such as short-term and long-term relocalization. We will also explore the differences between machine-readable and human-readable maps, and why both need to coexist to support orchestration and coordination tasks occurring within the…
Camera calibration is a familiar pain to anyone who works with computer vision. It can be hard to know where to start, and even difficult to know when you’re “done.” This week we welcome back Luxonis to the show, and Cenek Albl (VP of Computer Vision) will show us how they handle the most dangerous…
The 3D-Object Perception Transformer (3PT) unifies detection, segmentation, and 6DoF pose estimation into two multi-view, RGB-only transformers. Demonstrating exceptional accuracy and cross-domain robustness, it placed first by significant margins in both the Industrial Robotics and AR/VR tracks of the BOP 2025 challenge at ICCV. Today, the 3PT architecture is actively deployed in real-world industrial robotic…
This week join Jason Ren of Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) for MolmoMotion: Forecasting Point Trajectories in 3D with Language Instruction, a live look at how open multimodal models move past describing a scene to predicting where things go next. Building on the Molmo family’s pointing and tracking capabilities, MolmoMotion takes a plain-language instruction and…
Global computer vision challenge opens to developers, researchers, and teams worldwide with prizes totaling $10,000 [Palo Alto, CA] — The Open Source Vision Foundation (OpenCV), home to the world’s most widely used open-source computer vision library, today announced the OpenCV AI Competition 2026 in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is the latest in…
Air cargo still runs on estimates — dimensions eyeballed at acceptance, and containers packed by “feel.” Suraj Nair, founder of Singapore-based Speedcargo, joins OpenCV Live to show how 3D computer vision, optimization algorithms, and gantry robotics replace that guesswork with measured cargo data. He’ll cover what it takes to get perception working reliably in a…
One robot is a demo; a hundred robots is an operations problem. Civ Robotics CTO Amit Moran walks through the software practices that keep a distributed rover fleet alive in the field — pinned builds, heartbeats on everything, remote restarts, and the mission data that saves you after the fact. Join our live stream and…
Join us this week for a presentation titled “Building the Next Generation of Synthetic Media,” where CraftStory’s Victor Erukhimov shows us how generative AI is reshaping the way digital humans and video content are created. The talk covers two products built by the team: Avatar SDK, a toolkit for generating photorealistic 3D avatars, and CraftStory,…
Autonomous drones only fly as well as they can figure out where they are. Drop one into a forest, a dense city, or a disaster zone, and that gets a lot harder — the signals they normally lean on just aren’t there. This week we get into HUNT, a navigation approach built for exactly the…