PGDrive Simulator Generates Unlimited Diverse Driving Environments
Researchers proposed PGDrive, a driving simulator designed to evaluate and improve end-to-end driving agents’ generalization abilities.
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Do We Really Need Green Screens for High-Quality Real-Time Human Matting?
Researchers from the City University of Hong Kong and SenseTime propose a lightweight matting objective decomposition network (MODNet) that can smoothly process real-time human matting from a single input image with diverse and dynamic backgrounds.
Chinese AI Startup SenseTime considers IPO on STAR Market
Chinese AI start-up SenseTime is considering IPO on Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market.
DeepFashion2: A Versatile Benchmark for Fashion Image Understanding
CUHK researchers recently teamed up with Chinese AI giant SenseTime to develop a greatly improved iteration in DeepFashion2, a large-scale benchmark with comprehensive tasks and annotations of fashion image understanding.
World #1 AI Startup SenseTime Gets Additional $620 Million
China’s computer vision startup SenseTime today announced it had raised US$620 million in Series C+ funding, a mere 50 days after it closed its Series C funding with US$600 million.
An Overview of China’s Top-Funded AI Startups
From 2015 – 2017 over 450 Chinese AI startups received funding totaling CN¥30 billion (US$4.8 billion). Although the number of funding rounds declined in 2017, the year’s total funding was more than double the total for 2015 and 2016 combined.
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.
China’s SenseTime Scores US$600 Million in Funding to Become the World’s Most Valued AI Startup
China’s computer vision company SenseTime today announced it had raised a staggering US$600 million in Series C funding, setting a world record for an AI company and bringing its value to an estimated US$4.5 billion to make it the world’s most valued AI startup.
MIT and SenseTime Become Allies in AI
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Chinese AI Unicorn SenseTime today announced the MIT-SenseTime Alliance on Artificial Intelligence, a partnership the duo says “aims to open up new avenues of discovery across MIT in areas such as computer vision, human-intelligence-inspired algorithms, medical imaging, and robotics.”
Chinese Computer Vision Startup Turns Heads With ‘SensePose’
In contrast to traditional approaches that use infrared or structured light along with the aforementioned hardware, SensePose needs only ambient light and a regular RGB camera lens.