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by Synced 2020-03-03 2

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Spotting Generated Images Just Got Much Easier

UC Berkeley and Adobe Research have introduced a “universal” detector that can distinguish real images from generated images regardless of what architectures and/or datasets were used for training.

by Synced 2020-03-03 3

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

CookGAN Generates Realistic Meal Images From an Ingredients List

Proposed by researchers from the Rutgers University and Samsung AI Center in the UK, CookGAN uses an attention-based ingredients-image association model to condition a generative neural network tasked with synthesizing meal images.

by Synced 2020-03-02 2

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

KaoKore: New Facial Dataset from Japanese Scrolls for ML

The KaoKore dataset includes 5552 RGB image files drawn from the 2018 Collection of Facial Expressions dataset of cropped face images from Japanese artworks.

by Synced 2020-03-02 3

AI Conference Global Industry

CVPR 2020 Proceeding as Planned; Record 1470 Papers Accepted

The paper acceptance rate fell to approximately 22 percent from 25 percent in 2019 and 29.6 percent in 2018.

by Synced 2020-02-29 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

BERT-of-Theseus: Compressing BERT by Progressive Module Replacing

Researchers propose a novel model compression approach to effectively compress BERT by progressive module replacing.

by Synced 2020-02-28 Number of comments0

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Robot Lovers Rejoice! Fei-Fei Li Stanford Team Crowd-Sources World’s Largest Robot Manipulation Dataset

The crowdsourcing produced 111.25 hours of video from 54 non-expert demonstrators to build “one of the largest, richest, and most diverse robot manipulation datasets ever collected using human creativity and dexterity.”

by Synced 2020-02-27 Number of comments0

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Leap in Second-Order Optimization: Shampoo Runtime Boosted 40%

A Google-led research team has introduced a new method for optimizing neural network parameters that is faster than all common first-order methods on complex problems.

by Synced 2020-02-27 6

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

AI Enables Doctors to Diagnose COVID-19 Infection in Seconds

Fast and accurate diagnosis is critical on the front line, and now an AI-powered diagnostic assessment system is helping Hubei medical teams do just that.

by Synced 2020-02-26 4

AI Industry US & Canada

Intel AI GM Naveen Rao Leaves After Habana Chosen Over Nervana

Naveen G. Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Platforms Group at Intel, is stepping down.

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AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

Retrieving Reasoning Paths for Answering Complex Questions

In an attempt to equip the TF-IDF-based retriever with a state-of-the-art neural reading comprehension model, researchers introduced a new graph-based recurrent retrieval approach.

by Synced 2020-02-26 1

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Aerial Visual Search of the Continental USA in 0.1 Seconds

The proposed system is capable of searching the continental United States at 1 -meter pixel resolution, corresponding to approximately 2 billion images, in around 0.1 seconds.

by Synced 2020-02-25 Number of comments0

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

MonoLayout | Bird’s-Eye Layout Estimation from A Single Image

MonoLayout, a practical deep neural architecture that takes just a single image of a road scene as input and outputs an amodal scene layout in bird’s-eye view.

by Synced 2020-02-24 3

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Bengio and Mila Researchers Use GAN Images to Illustrate Impact of Climate Change

In a bid to raise awareness of the threats posed by climate change, the Mila team recently published a paper that uses GANs to generate images of how climate events may impact our environments — with a particular focus on floods.

by Synced 2020-02-24 2

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Global Industry

YOLO Creator Joseph Redmon Stopped CV Research Due to Ethical Concerns

Joseph Redmon, creator of the popular object detection algorithm YOLO, tweeted last week that he had ceased his computer vision research to avoid enabling potential misuse of the tech.

by Synced 2020-02-23 3

AI AI Weekly Global Research

NeurIPS 2020 Changes Review Process; Hinton & Google Brain Unsupervised Model Boosts ImageNet Accuracy 7%; DeepMind Releases New JAX Libraries

Synced Global AI Weekly February 23rd

by Synced 2020-02-22 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech

Self-Adversarial Learning with Comparative Discrimination for Text Generation

Researchers have proposed a novel self-adversarial learning (SAL) paradigm for improving GANs’ performance in text generation.

by Synced 2020-02-22 2

AI China Health Industrial AI Industry

Volunteer Drone Teams Organize for COVID-19 Disinfection

Total disinfection coverage of DJI agricultural drones exceeds 600 million square meters across more than 1,000 villages.

by Synced 2020-02-21 Number of comments0

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

A look at The Case for Bayesian Deep Learning

Bayesian inference meanwhile leverages Bayes’ theorem to update the probability of a hypothesis as additional data becomes available. How can Bayesian inference benefit deep learning models?

by Synced 2020-02-21 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

DeepMind Releases New JAX Libraries for Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning

DeepMind announced yesterday the release of Haiku and RLax — new JAX libraries designed for neural networks and reinforcement learning respectively.

by Synced 2020-02-20 3

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Introduction to Deep Learning for Graphs and Where It May Be Heading

Researchers from Italy’s University of Pisa present a clear and engaging tutorial on the main concepts and building blocks involved in neural architectures for graphs.

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Anime-zing GANILLA for Ghibli Style Image Transfer

Researchers have proposed a novel generator network specialized on the illustrations in children’s books.

by Synced 2020-02-19 9

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Geoffrey Hinton & Google Brain Unsupervised Learning Algorithm Improves SOTA Accuracy on ImageNet by 7%

Researchers have proposed a simple but powerful “SimCLR” framework for contrastive learning of visual representations.

by Synced 2020-02-18 2

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

Up Close and Personal With BERT – Google’s Epoch-Making Language Model

A recent Google Brain paper looks into Google’s hugely successful transformer network — BERT — and how it represents linguistic information internally.

by Synced 2020-02-17 4

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Allen Institute’s New ‘Computer Vision Explorer’ Lets Researchers Demo SOTA CV Models

The tool enables researchers to try, compare, and evaluate models to decide which work best on their datasets or for their research purposes.

by Synced 2020-02-16 3

AI AI Weekly Global

AAAI 2020 Best Papers; Turing Award Winners See a Turning Point for Deep Learning; MIT Reveals Voting App Vulnerabilities

Synced Global AI Weekly February 16th

by Synced 2020-02-15 36

AI Industry Smart Living

How AI Is Changing Your Kitchen

Thanks to AI technologies such as image recognition and machine learning, people can now save time, food and money in the kitchen while discovering creative and tasty recipes and even generating their own new and personalized flavours.

by Synced 2020-02-14 3

Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

‘ClearGrasp’ Helps Robots See and Grasp Transparent Objects

Google teamed up with researchers from Synthesis AI and Columbia University to introduce a deep learning approach called ClearGrasp as a first step to teaching machines how to “see” transparent materials.

by Synced 2020-02-13 3

AI Research

What’s Happening Down There? New Aerial Video Event Recognition Dataset and DL Benchmark

The study introduces an Event Recognition in Aerial video (ERA) dataset comprising 2,866 aerial videos collected from YouTube and annotated with labels from 25 different classes corresponding to an event that can be seen unfolding over a period of five seconds.

by Synced 2020-02-13 1

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Google Brain & CMU Semi-Supervised ‘Noisy Student’ Achieves 88.4% Top-1 Accuracy on ImageNet

Researchers from Google Brain and Carnegie Mellon University have released models trained with a semi-supervised learning method called “Noisy Student” that achieve 88.4 percent top-1 accuracy on ImageNet.

by Synced 2020-02-12 Number of comments0

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Unsupervised Approach for GAN Interpretability Through Semantic Direction Discovery

Researchers have introduced the first unsupervised learning approach for identifying interpretable semantic directions in the latent space of generative adversarial network (GAN) models.

by Synced 2020-02-12 9

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Nature Language Tech Research

17 Billion Parameters! Microsoft DeepSpeed Breeds World’s Largest NLP Model

Deep learning models are getting larger and larger to meet the demand for better and better performance. Meanwhile, the timeContinue Reading

by Synced 2020-02-11 Number of comments0

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Beyond SPADE: Introducing Semantic Region-Adaptive Normalization for Image Synthesis

Researchers introduced semantic region-adaptive normalization (SEAN), a simple but effective building block for conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGAN).

by Synced 2020-02-10 5

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

AAAI 2020 | A Turning Point for Deep Learning? Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio Might Have Different Approaches

The Godfathers of AI and 2018 ACM Turing Award winners Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio shared a stage in New York on Sunday night at an event organized by the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020).

by Synced 2020-02-10 2

AI Computer Vision & Graphics Research

Facebook Open-Sources PyTorch3D CV Library

In a bid to simplify 3D deep learning and improve processing performance and efficiency, Facebook recently introduced an open-source framework for 3D computer vision.

by Synced 2020-02-09 10

AI AI Weekly Global Research

Research Roundup: Science & Technology Versus the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Synced Global AI Weekly February 9th

by Synced 2020-02-08 7

AI AIoT Asia Industry Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Battling the Coronavirus: Alibaba and Baidu AI Accelerate Vaccine and Drug R&D

The crucial step now is to develop matching vaccines and drugs to uproot its existence, and China’s big tech companies have stepped up to help.

by Synced 2020-02-07 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research Share My Research

Batchboost: Regularization for Stabilizing Training With Resistance to Underfitting & Overfitting

Batchboost is a simple technique to accelerate ML model training by adaptively feeding mini-batches with artificial samples which are created by mixing two examples from the previous step – in favor of pairing those that produce the difficult one.

by Synced 2020-02-07 2

Global Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Nature Bid to Boost Paper Review Transparency Applauded by ML Researchers

Leading scientific publication Nature announced it is launching a trial starting this week that will give authors of newly published papers the option of appending contents of the discussions they’ve had with and reports they’ve received from their reviewers.

by Synced 2020-02-06 2

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Sing Along! Japanese Researchers Develop Multispeaker Corpus for Singing Voice Synthesis

In an effort to enrich resources for multispeaker singing-voice synthesis, a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo has developed a Japanese multispeaker singing-voice corpus.

by Synced 2020-02-06 1

AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research

Radioactive Data: Facebook AI Knows Where You Got Your Training Dataset

Researchers proposed a “radioactive data” technique for subtly marking images in a dataset to help researchers later determine whether they were used to train a particular model.