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Google BlazeFace Performs Submillisecond Neural Face Detection on Mobile GPUs

Google researchers have introduced a new face detection framework called BlazeFace, adapted from the Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) framework and optimized for inference on mobile GPUs.

by Synced 2018-04-20 2

AI China

China’s “National AI Team” Gets Busy

A phrase that’s cropping up a lot in Chinese media these days is “National AI Team (人工智能国家队).” While this may suggest a squad of scientists heading off to some sort of AI Olympics, it rather refers to a new class of AI companies that are either backed by national institutes or closely integrated into government-funded programs.

by Synced 2017-10-31

China Industry

China’s AI Superstar Face++ Finishes Series C Funding Round With a Staggering US$460 Million

China’s computer vision company Megvii, a.k.a Face++ (旷视科技) has closed their Series C funding round at a staggering US$460 million.

by Synced 2017-08-23 1

Research

ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile Devices

The ShuffleNet utilizes pointwise group convolution and channel shuffle to reduce computation cost while maintaining accuracy. It manages to obtain lower top-1 error than the MobileNet system on ImageNet classification, and achieves ~13x actual speedup over AlexNet while maintaining comparable accuracy.