AI Technology & Industry Review
Current state-of-the-art convolutional architectures for object detection tasks are human-designed. In a recent paper, Google Brain researchers leveraged the advantages of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) to propose NAS-FPN, a new automatic search method for feature pyramid architecture.
At the G7 Digital Ministers gathering in Paris yesterday Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains announced the launch of the Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence.
NVIDIA has opened a fun online AI platform (https://nvlabs.github.io/FUNIT/petswap.html) that can swap pet faces onto other animals. Simply upload a photo of your Spot or Sylvester, draw a rectangle around its head, click on “Translate” and voila!
Researchers from the University of Washington, MIT, and Facebook Realty Lab recently proposed the novel deep representation method “DeepSDF” to study 3D object generation.
DeepMind and Google researchers have proposed a powerful new graph matching network (GMN) model for the retrieval and matching of graph structured objects.
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) has been dubbed the “Whampoa Academy for AI” in reference the elite Chinese military school. MSRA is a bootcamp for NLP research and has trained more than 500 interns, 20 PhDs and 20 postdocs over the past two decades.
Artificial intelligence is closing the gap on humans. Machines are rapidly honing their skills in object recognition and natural language interaction, and advanced AI agents have already beat human champions in board and video games and even debates.
Traditional methods used to estimate 3D structure and camera motion in videos rely heavily on manual assumptions such as continuity and planarity. Google researchers have now presented an alternative deep learning method which is able to obtain these assumptions from unlabelled video.
UK-based national research organization The Alan Turing Institute has released a new machine learning toolbox, Machine Learning in Julia (MLJ), which provides a uniform interface enabling users to easily train, evaluate, and tune machine learning models.
Researchers from the Sri Lanka’s University of Moratuwa and the University of Sydney in Australia have proposed a technique for generating new handwritten character training samples from existing samples.
A French-based research scientist has collected almost 300 signatures on an online petition calling for organizers of major computer science conferences such as SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, etc. to exclude the US as a host.
The Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) kicked off today. One of the world’s major machine learning conferences, ICLR this year received 1591 main conference paper submissions — up 60 percent over last year — and accepted 24 for oral presentations and 476 as poster presentations.
Over 6,000 developers and computer scientists poured into Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center this morning for Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2019, the company’s annual developer conference. Microsoft used the occasion to announce a new AI-driven collaboration and hybrid-cloud innovations across Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.
Synced Global AI Weekly May 5th
Designing accurate and efficient CNNs for mobile devices is challenging due to the large design space and expensive computational methods. Although many mobile CNNs are available for developers to train and deploy to mobile devices, existing CNN architecture may not be able to achieve the best results for some tasks on mobile devices.
Google today announced the release of a new and improved landmark recognition dataset. Google-Landmarks-v2 includes over 5 million images, doubling the number in the landmark recognition dataset the tech giant released last year. The dataset now covers more than 200 thousand different landmarks, a seven times increase over the first version.
The 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) released its paper acceptance results this week, and many researchers whose papers were rejected have taken to social media to question the review process.
Microsoft Build 2019 is around the corner. From May 6 to 8, developers and software engineers will fill Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center, where Microsoft is expected to announce updates to Windows, Office 365, its Azure cloud computing platform, and other company platforms and services.
“AI is the best bot to keep people safe on our platforms,” Facebook Director of Artificial Intelligence Manohar Paluri told the F8 audience, adding that an effective way to achieve that goal is enabling Facebook’s AI system to “understand content and work effectively with less labeled training data.”
The non-profit organization behind the popular worldwide library of computer vision programming functions, OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision), is launching a kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a series of summer 2019 AI courses.
New research from Harvard Medical Group shows AI-powered autonomous device navigation is possible in minimally invasive surgical procedures, and even in heart surgery.
10 AI News You Must Know from April W 3 – W 4
San Francisco research company OpenAI has developed Sparse Transformer, a deep neural network which outperforms current state-of-the-art techniques for predicting long-sequence data in text, image and sound.
Synced Global AI Weekly April 28th
With its improved productivity and accuracy and more personalized experience, AI is revolutionizing medical imaging. According to Signify Research, the world market for AI in medical imaging — comprising software for automated detection, quantification, decision support, and diagnosis — will reach US$2 billion by 2023.
The semiconductor industry took off in the 1960s, when most companies were still IDMs (integrated device manufacturers) who designed, manufactured, packaged, tested and sold ICs (integrated circuits).
If we ask one of today’s AI-powered voice assistants like Alexa and Siri to tell a joke, it might very well come up with something that puts a smile on our face. If however we then asked “Why do you think that joke is funny?” the bot would be stuck for a response. AI researchers want to change that.
Everyone, however, sleeps. And Synced has found a simple way to challenge cutting-edge facial recognition security scans: just point a camera at the unaware subject while they are sleeping.
China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress has amended its Civil Code Personality Rights (Draft) to stipulate that no organization or individual may infringe the portrait rights of others by means of digital technology forgery.
Advanced machine learning techniques and the widespread deployment of surveillance cameras have dramatically improved the efficiency and accuracy of human detection systems in airports, train stations, and other sensitive public places. Is this the end of anonymity?
Thanks to the CUDA architecture [1] developed by NVIDIA, developers can exploit GPUs’ parallel computing power to perform general computation without extra efforts. Our objective is to evaluate the performance achieved by TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet on Titan RTX.
Respected AI pioneer and visionary Nils John Nilsson passed away early this morning at age 86.
At the recent NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2019, Synced reported on a ‘magical brush’ app that could transform simple line drawings and sketches into realistic landscapes.
Synced Global AI Weekly April 21st
In February Chinese AI semiconductor maker Horizon Robotics raised US$600 million in Series B funding from SK China, SK Hynix and big auto groups, making it the first in its field to reach the staggering valuation of US$3 billion.
The Stanford ML Group led by Andrew Ng has released its MRNet Dataset, which contains more than 1000 annotated knee MRI Scans; and announced an associated public model competition.
Neural networks for image recognition have matured from simple chain-like models to structures with multiple wiring paths. The emergence of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) can optimize models with more elaborate wiring and operation types.
Researchers from Facebook, the National University of Singapore, and the Qihoo 360 AI Institute have jointly proposed OctConv (Octave Convolution), a promising new alternative to traditional convolution operations. Akin to a “compressor” for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), the OctConv method saves computational resources while boosting effectiveness.
At the Auto Shanghai 2019 Key Tech Forum yesterday Huawei Rotating Chairman Eric Xu unveiled the company’s plan to provide information and communication technology (ICT) to OEMs to help them build better vehicles.
Interactive movies are redefining cinema and storytelling and opening up a world of possibilities in the entertainment industry. There are no “spoilers” for films with no predetermined endings, whose characters and plots develop based on viewers’ real-time direction. Now, what if these viewers became characters?