Focus on Vision: Preventing Traffic Accidents, Improving Retail Operations | December 3, 2025
In this episode of Focus on Vision, Justine Murphy covers the following news stories:
- Researchers at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering (New York, NY, USA) have developed a vision system that can automatically identify collisions and near-misses in traffic videos.
- Total Wine & More (Bethesda, MD, USA), an alcohol retailer, is testing an AI-enabled vision system from Zebra Technologies (Lincolnshire, IL, USA) designed to help frontline associates with tasks such as inventory and customer service.
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Hyper-realistic simulation software developer Parallax Worlds (San Francisco, CA, USA) has raised $4 million in seed funding, led by Pear VC, bringing the company’s total pre-seed and seed funding to $4.9 million.
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In this episode of Focus On Vision:
0:00 Intro
0:19 Multimodal System Identifies Collisions, Near-misses in Traffic Videos Researchers have developed a system that can automatically identify collisions and near-misses in traffic videos. Called SeeUnsafe, the system is based on multimodal large language models.
1:31 Machine Vision, AI to Streamline Store Operations Total Wine & More has integrated AI-powered machine vision tools in select stores to improve frontline efficiency.
2:26 Parallax Worlds Raises $4M in Seed Funding Hyper-realistic simulation software developer Parallax Worlds has raised $4 million in seed funding, led by Pear VC, bringing the company’s total pre-seed and seed funding to $4.9 million.
3:11 Outro
About the Author
Justine Murphy
Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Endeavor Business Media's Digital Infrastructure Group. She is a multiple award-winning writer and editor with more 20 years of experience in newspaper publishing as well as public relations, marketing, and communications. For nearly 10 years, she has covered all facets of the optics and photonics industry as an editor, writer, web news anchor, and podcast host for an internationally reaching magazine publishing company. Her work has earned accolades from the New England Press Association as well as the SIIA/Jesse H. Neal Awards. She received a B.A. from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.