Advancing Safety & Privacy for Trustworthy AI Inference Systems
Researchers from academia and industry offer input on the design, deployment, and operation of trustworthy AI inference systems.
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Germany Sets Up €350m Euro Cybersecurity Agency to Strengthen “Digital Sovereignty”
Germany announced that it has setup a federal agency to combat cyber threats and safeguard the country’s digital sovereignty.
UAE Opens the World’s First Graduate-Level AI University for Fall 2021 Admission
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) has opened for admission for the first academic year commencing in January 2021.
KDD 2020 Honors Career Achievements in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
New Prizes Recognize Innovation, Service, Rising Stars and Enduring Research Papers Ahead of the 26th Annual Conference.
Love-Love: Stanford Researchers Generate Realistic ‘Fake’ Wimbleton
A Stanford University research team has responded with an AI-powered model capable of realistically simulating a Wimbledon final and more.
NeurIPS Paper Reviews Released, Controversies Resurface
The NeurIPS 2020 paper reviews were sent out last Friday, starting the author response phase.
Huawei’s Wuhan Optics R&D Institute is Developing Cheap 100/200m LiDARs Cost Lower than US$500
Huawei’s Wuhan Research Institute has established a LiDAR research team aimed to produce 100m/200m ranging products at the cost of US$500 and lower.
How Smart is BERT? Evaluating the Language Model’s Commonsense Knowledge
Researchers dive deep into the large language model to discover how it encodes the structured commonsense knowledge it leverages on downstream commonsense tasks.
SIAT Researchers Propose Effective Method for Skin Lesion Segmentation
Researchers proposed a novel and effective automatic segmentation method by using Generative Adversarial Networks with dual discriminators.
Introducing Holicity: A City-Scale Dataset for Learning Holistic 3D Structures
HoliCity, a city-scale dataset and all-in-one data platform for research into learning abstracted high-level holistic 3D structures derived from city CAD (computer-aided design) models.
Tour the World From Your Couch: Google ‘NeRF-W’ Delivers Accurate 3D Scene Reconstruction of Complex Outdoor Environments
Google researchers have introduced a series of extensions to the SOTA view-synthesis method Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) that enable it to produce high-quality 3D representations of complex scenes with only unstructured image collections as input.
UK Invests £200m in Public Sector AI Procurement Over the Next Four Years
The UK government is investing approximately £200m over the next four years in public sector AI procurement, which facilitates the purchase of a wide range of AI services from various suppliers.
AI-Powered Smart Cameras Help You Maintain a Long-Distance Relationship …With Your Pet
Thanks to the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and Internet of things (IoT) devices, many additional functions have been added to make the parent-pet connection stronger.
Preferred Networks Releases Optuna v2.0
Open-source library for machine learning now gives the ability to evaluate which hyperparameters most affect performance.
Eyes on Me: Google AI ‘MediaPipe Iris’ Improves Iris Tracking and Distance Estimation
MediaPipe Iris, a novel machine learning model designed to deliver accurate iris estimation without using depth sensors.
Pixel2Style2Pixel: Novel Encoder Architecture Boosts Facial Image-To-Image Translation
Researchers from Penta-AI and Tel-Aviv University introduce a generic image-to-image translation framework dubbed Pixel2Style2Pixel (pSp).
Trump Escalates His China Tech Ban from Tiktok to WeChat
US President Donald Trump released two executive orders to ban the Chinese messaging app WeChat.
Huawei: China to Have 800K 5G Base Stations by End of 2020
Huawei states that as of July this year, 92 5G commercial networks have been deployed worldwide and China owns the most 5G spectrum and physical sites.
Japan’s Toshiba Invests US$321 Million to Set Up New R&D Centre for AI
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba announced the investment of US$321 million to set up a new AI centre.
SIAT Researchers Design Novel Deep Learning System to Assess Skeletal Maturity
Researchers introduced an ensemble-based deep learning pipeline to automatically assess the distal radius and ulna (DRU) maturity from left-hand radiographs.
ArXiv’s 1.7M+ Research Papers Now Available on Kaggle
ArXiv announced that all of its research papers are now available on Kaggle.
DeepMind & Google Explore Hyperparameter Selection for Offline RL
Researchers conducted a thorough empirical study of hyperparameter selection for offline RL, aiming to identify and develop more reliable and effective approaches.
Google’s Head of Business EMEA joins French startup Outsight to make it a leader in Spatial Intelligence
Google’s Head of AI & IoT Strategic Business Development EMEA, has been appointed Chief Business Officer of Outsight.
Unselfie Turns Arm-Extended Selfies into Neutral-Pose Portraits
“Unselfie,” a novel photographic transformation model that can automatically translate selfies into neutral-pose portraits.
Chinese AI Company Xiao-i Sues Apple Siri for US$1.4 Billion
Chinese AI company Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology filed a US$1.4 billion patent infringement lawsuit against Apple.
AI Generator Learns to ‘Draw’ Like Cartoonist Lee Mal-Nyeon in Just 10 Hours
A Seoul National University Master’s student and developer has trained a face generating model to transfer normal face photographs into cartoon images in the distinctive style of Lee Mal-nyeon.
As Its GPT-3 Model Wows the World, OpenAI CEO Suggests ‘the Hype Is Way Too Much’
OpenAI’s 175 billion parameter language model GPT-3 has gone viral once again.
Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks
BigBird is shown to dramatically improve performance across long-context NLP tasks, producing SOTA results in question answering and summarization.
Chinese AI Startup SenseTime considers IPO on STAR Market
Chinese AI start-up SenseTime is considering IPO on Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market.
Alibaba Cloud Deploys Three New Super Data Centre, to Invest US$28 Billion in Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud wraps up the deployment three data centres in Nantong, Hangzhou, and Ulanqab city, plans to add over one million servers to expedite regional infrastructure development.
Applying Linearly Scalable Transformers to Model Longer Protein Sequences
Researchers proposed a new transformer architecture called “Performer” — based on what they call fast attention via orthogonal random features (FAVOR).
AI-Powered ‘Genderify’ Platform Shut Down After Bias-Based Backlash
Genderify is an AI-powered tool designed to identify a person’s gender by analyzing their name, username or email address.
Preferred Networks Releases PFRL Deep Reinforcement Learning Library for PyTorch Users
PFRL succeeds ChainerRL as comprehensive library with cutting-edge deep reinforcement learning algorithms and features.
MLPerf Training v0.7 Results Released: Google & NVIDIA Lead the Race
The industry-standard MLPerf benchmark today released the results of the third round of its ongoing ML Training Systems competition.
Google Proposes Lasso Algorithm Variant for Learning Convolutions: ‘Bridging the Gap Between Fully-Connected and Convolutional Nets’
Unlike previous work that suggested fully-connected networks can only deliver subpar performance, Neyshabur’s experiments showed a significant performance jump.
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About Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
SIAT aims to enhance the innovative capacity of the equipment manufacturing and service industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong region, promote the development of emerging industries possessing their own proprietary intellectual property, and become a world-class industrial research institute.
China’s Semiconductor Boom: 72 Chip Companies Receive CN ¥26.7 Billion in 2020
According to Chinese media Zhidongxi, from the second quarter of this year to July 23, public record shows 77 semiconductor-related financing activities in China.
SIAT Researchers Propose Novel Correction Method for Gas Sensor Drift Problem
Researchers developed a subspace learning-based domain adaptation method, which could potentially alleviate the gas sensor drift problem.
New White-Box Framework Will Cartoonize Your World
This framework can generate high-quality cartoonized images with much-improved controllability.
Alibaba and Accenture Report Share Insights on Post-COVID AI Development in China
On July 27, 2020, Alibaba Cloud Research Center and Accenture jointly launched the “The Penetrative and Explosive Power of AI Dividend” white paper, as part of the “China Enterprise 2020” series report.