AI Technology & Industry Review
Technical review of the newest machine intelligence research.
The NVIDIA DeepStream Software Development Kit (SDK) was originally released in 2017 to simplify the deployment of scalable intelligent video analytics (IVA) powered by deep learning. Developers can use DeepStream to process, understand and categorize video frames in real time and within stringent throughput and latency requirements.
The Baidu Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab has released a paper which proposes a neural conditional random field (NCRF) process for cancer metastasis detection on Whole Slide Images (WSIs).
The paper Relational inductive biases, deep learning, and graph networks, published last week on arXiv by researchers from DeepMind, Google Brain, MIT and University of Edinburgh, has stimulated discussion in the artificial intelligence community.
Earlier this week the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2018 announced its Best Two Short Papers, neither of which had yet been published. Today the AI community got its first look at one of the winners when Know What You Don’t Know: Unanswerable Questions for SQuAD was released on arXiv.
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will hold its 56th Annual Meeting July 15 – 20 in Melbourne, Australia. Yesterday, the ACL 2018 organising committee announced its three best long papers and two best short papers.
GcForest, a decision tree ensemble approach that is much easier to train than deep neural networks, has received a lot of attention from researchers since it was introduced by Prof. Zhihua Zhou and his student Ji Feng last year. Based on their previous work, Zhou, Feng and Nanjing University colleague Yang Yu have now proposed Multi-layered Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (mGBDTs).
Synced recently spoke with Delian Capital Senior Vice President Xuesong Fan about the current status of automated driving startups. Fan graduated from Harbin Engineering University and worked for years on Chinese satellite engineering. In 2015 came down to earth, applying his experience to self-driving car investments.
UC Berkeley’s Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR) has open-sourced their newest driving database, BDD100K, which contains over 100k videos of driving experience, each running 40 seconds at 30 frames per second.
In his keynote at the Tencent Cloud Service Summit 2018 in Guangzhou today, Tencent Founder and CEO Pony Ma introduced his company’s new Super Brain platform and a Three Nets cloud concept comprising the “Internet of Things,” “Internet of Humans” and “Internet of Intelligence.”
Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup Unisound, (a.k.a. Yunzhisheng / 云知声) today announced that it had raised US$100 million in Series C funding, the richest-ever single funding round for a smart voice technology startup.
While Poggio the teacher has taught some extraordinary leaders in AI, Poggio the scientist is renowned for his theory of deep learning, presented in papers with self-explanatory names: Theory of Deep Learning I, II and III.
Tencent today officially launched its first-ever smart speaker, Tencent Tingting (腾讯听听), which can send or receive voice messages via WeChat.
A Chatbot is information service interface done by a computer program, sometimes with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Chatbot applications range from functional to fun, and have been growing quickly both in sophistication and popularity.
Ninety percent of AI-enabled devices shipped today are based on architecture developed by Arm, a leading UK-based chip intellectual property (IP) provider known for its CPU and GPU processors…
Sichuan pig farming corporation Dekon Group and pig feed supplier Tequ Group’s new partnership with Alibaba Cloud to apply its AI-powered “ET Brain” to pig farming. The trio are investing tens of millions of USD in the project, which was announced on February 6, 2018.
At the RE•WORK AI Assistant Summit San Francisco yesterday, research scientists and engineers from Amazon, Apple and Google spoke on how they are addressing challenges and evolving their conversational AI systems.
China has just released its “Artificial Intelligence Standardization White Paper.” The 98-page document was edited by the China Electronics Standardization Institute under the guidance of the National Standardization Management Committee Second Ministry of Industry.
The Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) recently launched ObamaNet — a photo-realistic lip-sync neural network that can make anyone appear to be saying anything.
To boost learning research aimed at endowing robots with better generalization capabilities, Yi Wu from UC Berkeley and Yuxin Wu, Georgia Gkioxari, and Yuandong Tian from Facebook AI research recently published the paper Building Generalizable Agents with a Realistic and Rich 3D Environment.
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To combine the advantages of these two methods, the authors of this paper first adapts the multi-source NMT model, by employing different encoders to capture the semantics of the source language, then the decoder is used to generate the final output by the multiple context vector representations coming from the encoder.
Last month, Chinese internet giant Tencent released its Internet Technology Innovation Whitepaper.
The author uses a hard-attention (Viterbi alignment matrix) of the SMT (Statistical Machine Translation) to help learn a better alignment matrix in NMT during the training.
STN-OCR, a single semi-supervised Deep Neural Network(DNN), consist of a spatial transformer network – which is used to detected text regions in images, and a text recognition network – which recognizes the textual content of the identified text regions.
The author wants to run a musical experiment with Neural Networks to achieve the goal of making the neural translation of musical style.
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In this paper, the authors build four classifiers which are the logistic regression, KNN, SVM, CNN by supervised machine learning to discriminate between criminals and non-criminals.
To boost CNN performance, industry leaders and startups alike are now racing to develop specialized AI chips.
Recently there are three papers on ArXiv that drew the author’s attention, all have focus on learning multi-model information.
This glossary currently includes a total of 743 specialized AI terms based on machine learning concepts and terminologies.
The success AI has achieved in image recognition has prompted tech companies to explore the new field of video understanding, in which machines are trained to answer questions like “Who is in this video?” or “What are the cats in the video doing?”
UC Berkley Professor David Wagner delivered a keynote speech to open the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2017. The top tier computer security and privacy conference was held in Dallas, USA.
This paper gives a demonstration of using Bayesian LSTMs for classification of medical time series, which can improve the accuracy compared with standard LSTMs.
Today, the “Godfather of Deep Learning” Dr. Geoffrey Hinton published the paper Dynamic Routing Between Capsules on Arxiv. This is being hailed as a revolutionary work that could totally revamp computer vision research.
The author introduces the algorithm with a real-life story and then provides applications in four different fields to help beginners learn and know more about this algorithm.
Facebook AI Researcher Yuandong Tian says new AlphaGo Zero paper is destined to be a classic.
Synced tech analyst reviews the thesis “Tree Boosting With XGBoost – Why Does XGBoost Win ‘Every’ Machine Learning Competition”, which investigates how XGBoost differs from traditional MART, and XGBoost’s superiority in machine learning competition.
The objective of Voyage’s self-driving vehicles is to deliver fully functional autonomous taxis within five years.
YouTuber “TJWei” recently uploaded a “Face-off” video on YouTube. The four-minute split-screen clip sees two figures speaking and emoting simultaneously. Both look human, but one is an entity generated in real-time by an AI algorithm.