New Snip Smartphone App Converts Math Screenshots Into LaTeX
Not so long ago, mathematics students and researchers had to spend a tedious amount of time writing out equations in the technical and scientific documentation typesetting system LaTeX.
Tag: Artificial Intelligence_
PyTorch 1.2 Supports Transformer and Tensorboard; Summer Hackathon Announced
PyTorch v1.2 brings the machine learning community further improvements, including official support for Transformer, TensorBoard, and more.
AI Provides Solutions for the Japanese Fishing Industry
This article looks at three Japanese cases where AI is being applied either in large-scale aquaculture or to improve yields in traditional capture fishing.
Google AI & DeepMind Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning Understands Every Video Frame
Frame-by-frame fine-grained labeling is however a time-consuming task. To tackle this problem, researchers from Google AI and DeepMind have introduced a novel self-supervised learning method called Temporal Cycle-Consistency Learning (TCC).
Semantic Based Adversarial Examples Fool Face Recognition
Researchers have proposed a new adversarial attack approach, SemanticAdv, which generates adversarial perturbations by manipulating not pixels but rather an image’s semantic attributes.
AI Analyzes Chess Commentary to Learn to Play Chess
What if an AI could learn to play Chess based only on human game commentary? That interesting task has been tackled by SentiMATE, a new Chess algorithm proposed by University College London.
South Korean Game Developer’s AI Turns Your Selfie Into an Anime Face
Last month a team of South Korean researchers proposed a method that uses unsupervised image translation to transform a simple selfie into a classic Japanese-style anime face.
Chinese Video Streaming Giant Introduces Anime Facial ID Dataset
In a bid to combine anime and cartoon culture with machine learning, a research team from China’s leading video streaming service iQIYI has introduced a novel large unconstrained cartoon dataset they call “iCartoonFace.”
KDD 2019 Announces Best Paper Awards
KDD 2019 features both a Research track and an Applied Data Science (ADS) track, and today organizers announced their Best Paper Awards.
Tencent AI Trounces Pro Team in China’s #1 Mobile Game
China’s largest game-maker Tencent recently took a huge leap when its homegrown AI system Wukong AI (绝悟) trounced a human pro team in China’s most popular mobile game Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), aka Arena of Valor.
Harvard Researchers Benchmark TPU, GPU & CPU for Deep Learning
Because training deep learning models requires intensive computation, AI researchers are always on the lookout for new and better hardware and software platforms for their increasingly sophisticated models.
ACL 2019 Announces Best Papers; Nature Covers Tianjic Chip; Baidu Releases ERNIE 2.0
Synced Global AI Weekly August 4th
ACL 2019 | Best Papers Announced
The ACL 2019 organizing committee announced its eight paper awards: Best Long Paper, Best Short Paper, Best Demo Paper, and five Outstanding Paper awards.
Nature Cover Story | Chinese Team’s ‘Tianjic Chip’ Bridges Machine Learning and Neuroscience in Pursuit of AGI
Today, respected scientific journal Nature boosted the case for AGI with a cover story on a new research paper, Towards artificial general intelligence with hybrid Tianjic chip architecture, which aims to stimulate AGI development by adopting generalized hardware platforms.
Greening AI | New AI2 Initiative Promotes Model Efficiency
Researchers at the Seattle Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) have proposed a Green AI initiative designed to make future AI research more energy efficient.
Baidu’s ERNIE 2.0 Beats BERT and XLNet on NLP Benchmarks
Today, the research division of the Chinese search giant released their updated ERNIE 2.0, a pretrained language understanding model with significant improvements.
Julia Computing & MIT Introduce Differentiable Programming System Bridging AI and Science
A research team from Julia Computing and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology propose that extensive scientific computing and machine learning domains both require linear algebra support on their underlying structures.
New Multilingual Video Description Dataset VATEX Receives Three Strong Accepts at ICCV
This paper presents a new large-scale multilingual video description dataset, covering over 41,250 videos and 825,000 captions in both Chinese and English.
Cars, Cockpits, & Intelligent Pilot
A hot topic today is Intelligent Pilot Systems, an automotive driving concept comprising a smart vehicle assistant that enables a user to interact with the vehicle via voice; and intelligent mechanized function control for car entertainment, safety, autonomous driving and navigation.
Animated Selfies and Other AI Image Processing Magic
The new AI-powered Animate feature on Meitu’s signature selfie app brings still pictures to life with floral auras, resplendent butterflies, flowing hair, petal bursts, flame nebulas, fireworks and more.
Meet Your AI-Generated Dream Anime Girl
Do you dream of Asuna Yuuki? Do you long to escape to a fantasy world with a beautiful anime partner? If so there’s a new artificial intelligence system just for you — the “Waifu Vending Machine” can create a highly customized anime companion in minutes.
Robot Music Through the Ages
With recent developments in artificial intelligence and automation in machines, robots are advancing into previously unexplored industries such as music and entertainment.
DeepMind DVD-GAN: Impressive Step Toward Realistic Video Synthesis
he rapid development of AI models such as variational autoencoders (VAE) and generative adversarial networks (GAN) that can generate audio, images and video has opened a Pandora’s box of digital fakery.
Magically Remove Moving Objects from Video
Have you ever shot a perfect video only to have it spoiled by an unsightly pedestrian, truck or other moving object passing through the frame? Although most people know how to crop or photoshop their photos to remove unwanted stuff, doing so with video is another matter entirely.
CMU Creates Language2Pose Model that Generates Animations From Text
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have made another leap in the field with their Joint Language-to-Pose (JL2P) model, which generate animations from text input via a joint multimodal space comprising language and poses.
Who Let the Dogs Out? Ask Megvii’s Nose Print Recognition System
Although there are many means for identifying and locating a missing person — police and amber alerts, photos and biometrics such as fingerprints and even facial recognition — few of these resources are available for finding a lost dog, and about 75 percent of dogs in the USA are not microchipped.
Google and NVIDIA Break MLPerf Records; Facebook Bot Beats Poker Pros
Synced Global AI Weekly July 14th
How NLP Is Advancing Asset Management
Although natural language processing (NLP) has been around for decades, the recent and rapid rise of deep learning algorithms together with the increasing availability of massive amounts of text data are creating new and appealing opportunities for the tech across many industry sectors, including in the investment world.
Harvard’s Tiny, Solar-Powered Flying Robot
Last month, Harvard Microrobotics Lab researchers introduced RoboBee X-Wing, a solar-powered micro-aerial vehicle that fits in the palm of your hand.
‘An Absolute Monster Bluffer’ – Facebook & CMU AI Bot Beats Poker Pros
Don’t simply “all in” if there’s a bot at your Texas hold’em poker table, because Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University’s new *Pluribus* AI system just beat five human pros at the same time — including a couple of World Series of Poker Champs.
Google and NVIDIA Break MLPerf Records
Forerunners Google and NVIDIA announced today that they have set new AI training time records on the MLPerf benchmark competition.
StarCraft II Players Get the Chance to Play Against DeepMind’s AlphaStar!
Blizzard Entertainment, the American video game developer and publisher behind the StarCraft series, announced that AlphaStar will join the competitive ladder in Europe on the online gaming platform Battle.net, where it will play a limited number of games against human players.
Are Commercial Labs Stealing Academia’s AI Thunder?
Commercial research labs run by Google Research, DeepMind, and OpenAI are taking central stage in the artificial intelligence era. The eye-popping achievements of these massively-funded AI labs are constantly producing headlines in tech journals and even mainstream media.
BigGAN + BiGAN = BigBiGAN | DeepMind Model Excels in Unsupervised Representation Learning and Image Generation
Leading UK AI research company DeepMind has now proposed “BigBiGAN” (not BigBigGAN, but BigBiGAN), which achieves state-of-the-art results in both unsupervised representation learning on ImageNet and in unconditional image generation.
New Repository Provides NumPy Implementation of ML Models
If you are a developer who has ever wished for a rich collection of machine learning algorithms implemented exclusively in NumPy, then you’ll love Numpy-ml — a new GitHub project that’s winning accolades from across the global machine learning community.
How Uber & Lyft Use AI to Improve Ride Experience
At last month’s RE•WORK Applied AI Summit 2019 in San Francisco, AI experts from Uber and Lyft shared insights on how the companies are leveraging machine learning algorithms to improve their services for both riders and drivers.
Landmark Assisted CycleGAN: Draw Me Like One of Your Cartoon Girls
A group of researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harbin Institute of Technology and Tencent have proposed a method to create such cartoon faces from photos of human faces via a novel CycleGAN model informed by facial landmarks.
Alibaba, Baidu and Xiaomi Open-Source Their SOTA Research
Synced Global AI Weekly July 7th
AI x Global 500 Manufacturing Companies | Robots, Data & Maintenance
Artificial intelligence is changing the operation modes of industrial production, and has become one of the key tools in the new era of global manufacturing.
Natural Beauty Meets Artificial Intelligence
The global cosmetic products market is expected to climb to US$863 billion in 2024 — an impressive CAGR of above 7 percent.