Abstract:
IBM Watson tantalized the world when it beat two grand master champions at the game of Jeopardy in 2011. At the time, Watson was able to understand natural language and answer sophisticated trivia questions
. Watson has since been deployed in numerous commercial applications including the Healthcare, Education, Financial, and IOT domains. It has additionally been
"given
" additional senses including the ability to understand spoken text, speak, and see. In this talk I will focus on Watson's seeing technologies. In particular I will highlight the capabilities in the area of image tagging, medical imaging, security, video analytics
, and augmented reality. I will describe the underlying technology as well as some of the novel use cases developed by IBM, by business partners
, and other entrepreneurs
.