Japanese Manga Translation Via Multimodal Context-Aware Framework
A new machine translation method enables global manga fans to enjoy immediate translations of their favourite Japanese comics.
AI Technology & Industry Review
A new machine translation method enables global manga fans to enjoy immediate translations of their favourite Japanese comics.
The municipal government of Japan’s Kobe city has spent more than JYP 40 million to develop an AI employment support system “SODAMO” jointly with a career support company.
With annual birth rate plummeting to 5.8 percent in 2019, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s government pledges to allocate USD 19 Million in the next fiscal year to help local authorities run AI matchmaking.
Japanese conglomerate Toshiba announced it will launch a logistics robot that accurately recognizes randomly piled luggage utilizing AI in 2021.
A consortium of 40 Japanese shipbuilders, shipping companies and tech firms have gathered to produce self-navigating shipping vessels.
Fujitsu and Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital to develop an AI-based technology to facilitate the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia.
Japanese AI company Preferred Networks announced a new joint venture named “Mit-PFN Energy” with Mitsui Group to develop and commercialize AI solutions.
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba announced the investment of US$321 million to set up a new AI centre.
Japanese artificial intelligence startup Preferred Networks (PFN) today debuted its PyTorch library pytorch-pfn-extras (PPE).
Researchers have proposed a new and inexpensive method for automatically generating yuru-chara characters.
The KaoKore dataset includes 5552 RGB image files drawn from the 2018 Collection of Facial Expressions dataset of cropped face images from Japanese artworks.
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.
Although Japan’s declining and aging population has done little to stimulate the domestic fashion industry, AI is getting very positive reviews from the country’s still massive JP¥9 trillion (US$83 billion) apparel market.
In an exclusive interview with Synced, the 56-year-old professor shared his thoughts on humanoids, human nature, human-robot interaction, knowledge and intelligence.
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.
This time next year an expected 10 million foreign visitors and millions of Japanese from Hokkaido to Okinawa will converge on the Tokyo Metropolis for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad.
ccording to a Fuji Research Laboratory report, the Japanese smart home market is expected to top JP¥4.2 trillion (US$38 billion) in 2025, up 36.3 percent from 2017. The market is being driven by smart devices including smartphones, which already account for more than half the market and are continuing to grow due their ability to conveniently connect IoT devices.
Preferred Networks (PFN) is completing a new private supercomputer, MN-2, which the Japanese AI startup expects to have operational in July 2019.
Japanese AI startup Preferred Networks (PFN) has developed a new processor dedicated to deep learning. The company unveiled the MN-Core chip, board, and server last week at SEMICON Japan 2018 in Tokyo.
Researchers from Japanese electronics giant Sony have trained the ResNet-50 neural network model on ImageNet in a record-breaking 224 seconds — 43.4 percent better than the previous fastest time for the benchmark task.
To address the aging problem farmers are turning to “smart agriculture” labour-saving techniques and devices and large-scale production. Artificial intelligence is playing an important role in accelerating and improving the technologies driving Japan’s smart agriculture.
In a new video posted by IEEE Spectrum, a 7.38-kilogram red robot composed of 12 interlinking modules swiggles through a 60 cm gap before rising and floating in mid-air like the mythical Dragon it is named after.
Google is looking to expand its AI research activities in the Japanese capital. The company’s deep learning and AI research team Google Brain yesterday posted a “Tokyo job listing seeking talented experts to participate in cutting edge research on machine learning”.