Synced - Part 30

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Fewer Cameras and Faster Processing: USC Proposes Monocular Real-Time Volumetric Performance Capture

A novel volumetric capture system that is capable of fully capturing clothed human bodies in real-time using only a single RGB webcam.

by Synced 2020-08-24 0

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Conference Machine Learning & Data Science Popular

ECCV 2020 Best Paper Award Goes to Princeton Team

The 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) kicked off on Sunday as a fully online conference. In the Conference Opening Session this morning, the ECCV organizing committee announced the conference’s paper submission stats and Best Paper selections.

by Synced 2020-08-24 0

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science

CUHK & Facebook Demonstrate SOTA Monocular 3D Hand Motion Capture Method ‘FrankMocap’

Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Facebook Reality Labs, and Facebook AI Research have unveiled a state-of-the-art monocular 3D hand motion capture method, FrankMocap, which can estimate both 3D hand and body motions from in-the-wild monocular inputs with faster speed and better accuracy than previous approaches.

by Synced 2020-08-22 0

US & Canada

Trump Slashes Research Funding but Raises the US Federal AI Budget by 34 Percent

Trump announced the 2021 fiscal year budget proposal on Monday, further flashing the budget for federally funded research projects, whereas research budgets of major scientific institutions have experienced double-digit cuts.

by Synced 2020-08-22 2

Conference Global

Fake ICRA conference hosted by Google Scholar profile imposter scams $530 registration fee

However, as Reddit users pointed out, the conference title is an acronym for International Conference on Robotics and Applications, which is one-word slip from the well-known top IEEE ICRA – International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

by Synced 2020-08-22 2

Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Popular

Sepp Hochreiter on Parallels Between Attention Mechanisms and Modern Hopfield Networks

Researchers argue that “attention mechanism is the update rule of a modern Hopfield network with continuous states.”

by Synced 2020-08-21 2

Machine Learning & Data Science

New ML Algorithm Tunes Quantum Devices Faster Than Human Experts

The proposed algorithm is approximately 180 times faster than an automated random search of the parameter space.

by Synced 2020-08-21 1

Machine Learning & Data Science

Using Deep RL to Model Human Locomotion Control in Neuromechanical Simulations

Researchers from Stanford University, UC Berkeley and CMU review neuromechanical simulations and DRL, with a focus on modelling the control of human locomotion.

by Synced 2020-08-20 2

Machine Learning & Data Science

Fast and Furious! DRL-Fuelled Agents Grab Pole Position in Gran Turismo Sport

University of Zurich and ETH Zurich’s deep reinforcement learning agents have achieved superhuman performance in the time trials of popular racing simulator game Gran Turismo Sport.

by Synced 2020-08-20 4

EU & UK Smart Living

Swiss AI Air Purifier Aeris Secures US$3.3 Million Series A Funding

Swiss air purification systems manufacturer aeris completed its series A funding of US$ 3.3 million.

by Synced 2020-08-19 6

Cloud & ML Ops Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Smart Living

Tesla Video Data Processing Supercomputer ‘Dojo’ – Building a 4D System Aiming at L5 Self-Driving

Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla is recruiting AI or chip talents for the company’s neural network training supercomputer project “Dojo.”

by Synced 2020-08-19 3

Machine Learning & Data Science Popular

DeepMind & McGill Employ Operations Generalization to Divide & Conquer Complex RL Problems

DeepMind and McGill University researchers believe the problem could be solved through a strategic “divide-and-conquer” approach.

by Synced 2020-08-18 1

Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Yoshua Bengio’s Improved Rate-Based Curriculum Learning Outperforms Progress-Based Algorithms

Bengio and researchers from Université de Montréal and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris have introduced a new curriculum learning algorithm based on the notion of mastering rate.

by Synced 2020-08-17 4

Hot Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

Google Introduces NLP Model Understanding Tool

Google Research released a paper tackling this issue with a new open-source analytic platform: the Language Interpretability Tool (LIT).

by Synced 2020-08-17 1

Asia Data Intelligence Global News Industry

Shenzhen Builds 46,480 5G Base Stations, Ranks 1st in the World

Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality announced that as of August 14, Shenzhen had built 46,480 5G base stations.

by Synced 2020-08-17 1

Global News Industrial AI Industry US & Canada

Elon Musk Seeks AI Talents for Video Data Processing Supercomputer “Dojo”

On August 15th, Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla is recruiting AI or chip talents for a neural network training computer project named “Dojo”.

by Synced 2020-08-14 3

Machine Learning & Data Science Research

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.

by Synced 2020-08-13 2

EU & UK

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.

by Synced 2020-08-13 4

Global

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.

by Synced 2020-08-13 3

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Popular

Love-Love: Stanford Researchers Generate Realistic ‘Fake’ Wimbledon

A Stanford University research team has responded with an AI-powered model capable of realistically simulating a Wimbledon final and more.

by Synced 2020-08-13 3

AI Conference Global Hot

NeurIPS Paper Reviews Released, Controversies Resurface

The NeurIPS 2020 paper reviews were sent out last Friday, starting the author response phase.

by Synced 2020-08-13 3

Asia China Industrial AI

Huawei’s Wuhan Optics R&D Institute is Developing Cheap 100/200m LiDARs Cost Lower than US$100

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.

by Synced 2020-08-12 1

AI Hot Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech

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.

by Synced 2020-08-11 1

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Research

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.

by Synced 2020-08-10 1

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

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.

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EU & UK Global News Industry

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.

by Synced 2020-08-08 12

AI Industry Smart Living

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.

by Synced 2020-08-07 3

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

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.

by Synced 2020-08-07 7

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Popular Research

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).

by Synced 2020-08-06 2

Asia China Industry United States US & Canada

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.

by Synced 2020-08-06 1

Asia China Industry

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.

by Synced 2020-08-06 1

Asia Industrial AI Industry

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.

by Synced 2020-08-06 7

AI Hot Research

ArXiv’s 1.7M+ Research Papers Now Available on Kaggle

ArXiv announced that all of its research papers are now available on Kaggle.

by Synced 2020-08-06 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

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.

by Synced 2020-08-05 1

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Unselfie Turns Arm-Extended Selfies into Neutral-Pose Portraits

“Unselfie,” a novel photographic transformation model that can automatically translate selfies into neutral-pose portraits.

by Synced 2020-08-04 0

Asia China US & Canada

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.

by Synced 2020-08-04 4

AI Asia Computer Vision & Graphics Hot Machine Learning & Data Science Research

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.