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by Synced 2020-01-24 Number of comments0

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NLPR, SenseTime & NTU Accelerate Automatic Video Portrait Editing

Researchers from Beijing’s National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), SenseTime Research, and Nanyang Technological University have taken the tech one step further with a new framework that enables totally arbitrary audio-video translation.

by Synced 2020-01-23 Number of comments0

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Hallo! Hallo! KU Leuven & TU Berlin Introduce ‘RobBERT,’ a SOTA Dutch BERT

A group of researchers from The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and The Technical University of Berlin recently introduced a Dutch RoBERTa-based language model, RobBERT.

by Synced 2020-01-23 Number of comments0

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Google FixMatch: SOTA Performance on Semi-Supervised Learning Benchmarks

A team from Google Research introduced FixMatch, an algorithm that combines two common SSL methods for deep networks: pseudo-labeling (aka self-training) and consistency regularization.

by Synced 2020-01-22 Number of comments0

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Autonomous Learning Library Simplifies Intelligent Agent Creation

The Autonomous Learning Library is a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) library for PyTorch that streamlines the building and evaluation of novel reinforcement learning agents.

by Synced 2020-01-22 Number of comments0

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New Large Aerial Image Database for Agricultural Pattern Analysis

AI systems are already helping farmers with soil analysis, planting, animal husbandry, water conservation and more.

by Synced 2020-01-21 3

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Google Introduces Flax: A Neural Network Library for JAX

Google recently introduce Flax - a neural network library for JAX that is designed for flexibility.

by Synced 2020-01-20 Number of comments0

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Research

3DPeople | First Dataset to Map Clothing Geometry

A team of researchers from Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial and Harvard University recently introduced 3DPeople, a large-scale comprehensive dataset with specific geometric shapes of clothes that is suitable for many computer vision tasks involving clothed humans.

by Synced 2020-01-20 1

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Give Your Apps a New Interface With Neural Style Transfer!

To enable both content creators and end users to seriously restyle their apps’ interfaces while maintaining content detail clarity essential to their usability, researchers from Stanford have proposed ImagineNet, a novel and powerful new tool for interface customisation.

by Synced 2020-01-19 1

AI AI Weekly Global

Meet the Living Robot; PigeonBot With Real Feathers; DeepMind Introduces AlphaFold; PyTorch 1.4 Released

Synced Global AI Weekly January 19th

by Synced 2020-01-17 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Do Mice Use Distributional RL? DeepMind Says Yes

DeepMind researchers have uncovered parallels between how brains react to dopamine and the trending AI theory of distributional reinforcement learning.

by Synced 2020-01-17 1

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Three Papers in the Eye of the ‘AI Breast Cancer Detection’ Storm

A trio of AI detecting breast cancer papers from Google, NYU, and DeepHealth have triggered huge discussions. What are the breakthroughs? Is AI truly beating radiologists? Where exactly are we right now?

by Synced 2020-01-16 8

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

EmotionCues: AI Knows Whether Students Are Paying Attention

A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Harbin Engineering University has adopted facial recognition technology to analyze students’ emotions in the classroom through a visual analytics system called “EmotionCues.”

by Synced 2020-01-15 Number of comments0

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Building a Lie Detector for Images

Fake images and videos are giving AI a black eye — but how can the machine learning community fight back?

by Synced 2020-01-15 Number of comments0

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Fujitsu ‘Actlyzer’ Delivers AI-Powered, Video-Based Behavioural Analysis

The Fujitsu Laboratories and R&D Center behavioural analysis technology identifies suspicious activity by analysing complex combinations of human actions and movements — and does so with minimal training data.

by Synced 2020-01-14 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

AWS Introduces Open Source AutoML Toolkit ‘AutoGluon’

AutoGluon is designed to be an easy-to-use and easy-to-extend AutoML toolkit, suitable for both machine learning beginners and experts.

by Synced 2020-01-13 Number of comments0

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Introducing ‘DiffTaichi’ – A Differentiable Programming Language Tailored for Physical Simulation

Researchers have proposed DiffTaichi, a new differentiable programming language based on Taichi and specially tailored for building high-performance differentiable physical simulators.

by Synced 2020-01-13 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

AI Listens to Panda Love Sounds, Predicts Mating Success

Researchers trained a neural network, CGANet (Convolution module, bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit module, Attention module), to automate the mating success prediction process for pandas based on their vocal sounds.

by Synced 2020-01-12 4

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CES 2020 Roundup: Tech Giants, Future Mobility, Smart Home and More

Synced Global AI Weekly January 12th

by Synced 2020-01-11 7

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Robot Arms Selling Huawei Phones in New Unmanned Store

In a scene that looks like it came from a science fiction movie, a pair of robot arms twist and turn overhead as they serve shoppers in Huawei’s new SOTA staffless Wuhan Optics Valley retail outlet.

by Synced 2020-01-10 3

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Facebook Open-Sources PySlowFast Codebase for Video Understanding

FAIR as now open-sourced PySlowFast, along with a pretrained model library and a pledge to continue adding cutting-edge resources to the project.

by Synced 2020-01-09 1

AI Others Research

‘Brains Are Amazing’ – Neuroscientists Discover L2/3 Human Neurons Can Compute the XOR Operation

New research now suggests scientists may have severely underestimated the power and potential of our neurons.

by Synced 2020-01-09 2

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

PracticalAI 2.0 | ‘Learn, Explore and Build’ ML Models Online

PracticalAI recently released “practicalAI 2.0,” a platform that includes illustrative machine learning lessons in TensorFlow 2.0 + Keras and has garnered over 23k stars on GitHub.

by Synced 2020-01-08 13

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

SLM Lab: New RL Research Benchmark & Software Framework

In an effort to sustain RL’s momentum, a team of researchers from Machine Zone, Google Brain, and California Institute of Technology have introduced a new software framework and benchmark for reproducible reinforcement learning research.

by Synced 2020-01-08 6

Computer Vision & Graphics Research

Vroom! Vroom! New Dataset Rolls Out 64,000 Pictures of Cars

Recently, a dataset with 64,000 pictures of cars appeared on GitHub, the work of data scientist Nicolas Gervais.

by Synced 2020-01-07 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Microsoft Releases NNI V1.3 for AutoML Algorithms and Training

To help users design and tune machine learning models, neural network architectures or complex system parameters in an efficient and automatic way, in 2017 Microsoft Research began developing its Neural Network Intelligence (NNI) AutoML toolkit, open-sourcing v1.0 version in 2018.

by Synced 2020-01-06 3

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Microsoft & Peking University FaceShifter: High Fidelity, Occlusion Aware Face Swapping

A new study from Peking University and Microsoft Research Asia proposes a novel two-phase framework, FaceShifter, that aims for high-fidelity and occlusion-aware face exchange.

by Synced 2020-01-06 2

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

Facebook AI | Text-Based Generation of Interactive Worlds

Researchers recently proposed a new machine learning method for worldbuilding based on content from LIGHT, a research environment open-sourced by Facebook comprising crowd-sourced game locations, characters, and objects, etc.

by Synced 2020-01-05 2

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Google & UC Berkeley ‘Reformer’ Runs 64K Sequences on One GPU

A recent paper accepted by ICLR 2020 proposes a new transformer model called “Reformer” which achieves impressive performance even when running on only a single GPU.

by Synced 2020-01-05 1

AI AI Weekly Global

The Decade of Deep Learning; AI Experts’ Hopes for 2020; AI Beats Doctors at Cancer Diagnosis?

Synced Global AI Weekly January 5th

by Synced 2020-01-04 4

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China’s Financial Services Industry Is Banking on AI

The banking industry was the biggest investor in AI-related applications, accounting for 70 percent of all market purchases.

by Synced 2020-01-03 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Gaussian Error Linear Unit Activates Neural Networks Beyond ReLU

Results of the various experiments show GELU consistently has the best performance compared with ReLU and ELU, and can be considered a viable alternative to previous nonlinear approaches.

by Synced 2020-01-03 Number of comments0

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

Google Releases ALBERT V2 & Chinese-Language Models

Google has now released a major V2 ALBERT update and open-sourced Chinese ALBERT models.

by Synced 2020-01-02 6

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

‘SketchTransfer’ Draws Understanding From Detail Invariance

A team of researchers from Mila and Google Brain believe simple pencil sketches could help AI models generalize to a better understanding of unseen images.

by Synced 2020-01-02 1

AI Global Industry Research

Happy AI New Year! Global Researchers Reflect on 2019, Talk Trends for 2020

To welcome 2020 with some fresh AI perspectives, Synced spoke with global researchers from Google Brain, Sony AI, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial (formerly known as Alipay) and other organizations.

by Synced 2020-01-01 3

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Vision-Based AI Model Solves Sudoku at a Glance

Although “Sudoku“ grid-based number puzzles are no match for today’s artificial intelligence systems, a novel approach to the challenge is trending on GitHub due to its practical integration of computer vision technologies.

by Synced 2019-12-31 4

AI Research

2019 in Review: 10 AI Papers That Made an Impact

As part of our year-end series, Synced spotlights 10 artificial intelligence papers that garnered extraordinary attention and accolades in 2019.

by Synced 2019-12-30 4

AI Industry

2019 in Review: 10 Brilliant AI Apps

As 2019 comes to an end, Synced takes a look back at the year’s bumper crop of AI-powered products, spotlighting 10 new apps that we believe present brilliant ideas, innovative design and unique functionalities.

by Synced 2019-12-30 1

AI Research

Tencent AI ‘Juewu’ Beats Top MOBA Gamers

In a recent paper Tencent AI Lab researchers present a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach to handle the complex action control of agents in MOBA 1v1 games.

by Synced 2019-12-28 1

AI Conference

Dr. Max Welling on Federated Learning and Bayesian Thinking

Dr. Welling shares his views on FL, the importance of distributed learning, and the Bayesian aspects of the domain.

by Synced 2019-12-27 Number of comments0

Research

2019 In Review: 10 Open-Sourced AI Datasets

In the conclusion to our year-end series, Synced spotlights ten datasets that were open-sourced in 2019.