Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes
Autonomous Vehicles

Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes

People who take driving lessons during daytime don’t need instruction in driving at night. They recognize that the difference doesn’t disturb their knowledge of how to drive. Similarly, a new reinforcement learning method manages superficial variations in the environment without re-training.

August 19, 20202 min read
Drones of a Feather: Caltech researchers publish work on drone swarms.
Autonomous Vehicles

Drones of a Feather: Caltech researchers publish work on drone swarms.

Deep learning is coordinating drones so they can flock together without colliding. Caltech researchers Soon-Jo Chung and Yisong Yue developed a pair of models that enables swarms of networked drones to navigate autonomously through cluttered environments.

August 19, 20201 min read
Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes
Autonomous Vehicles

Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes

People who take driving lessons during daytime don’t need instruction in driving at night. They recognize that the difference doesn’t disturb their knowledge of how to drive. Similarly, a new reinforcement learning method manages superficial variations in the environment without re-training.

August 19, 20202 min read
Cars Idled, AV Makers Keep Rolling: How self-driving researchers stayed busy during the pandemic
Autonomous Vehicles

Cars Idled, AV Makers Keep Rolling: How self-driving researchers stayed busy during the pandemic

The pandemic has forced self-driving car companies off the road. Now they’re moving forward by refining their mountains of training data. Self-driving cars typically collect real-world training data with two human operators onboard, but Covid-19 makes that unsafe at any speed.

June 3, 20201 min read
Cars Idled, AV Makers Keep Rolling: How self-driving researchers stayed busy during the pandemic
Autonomous Vehicles

Cars Idled, AV Makers Keep Rolling: How self-driving researchers stayed busy during the pandemic

The pandemic has forced self-driving car companies off the road. Now they’re moving forward by refining their mountains of training data. Self-driving cars typically collect real-world training data with two human operators onboard, but Covid-19 makes that unsafe at any speed.

June 3, 20201 min read
Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs
Autonomous Vehicles

Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs

Recognizing stop signs, with their bold color scheme and distinctive shape, ought to be easy for computer vision — but it turns out to be a tricky problem. Tesla pulled back the curtain on what it takes to train its self-driving software to perform this task and others.

April 29, 20202 min read
Toward AI We Can Count On: Public trust recommendations from AI researchers
Autonomous Vehicles

Toward AI We Can Count On: Public trust recommendations from AI researchers

A consortium of top AI experts proposed concrete steps to help machine learning engineers secure the public’s trust. Dozens of researchers and technologists recommended actions to counter public skepticism toward artificial intelligence, fueled by issues like data privacy.

April 29, 20201 min read
Toward AI We Can Count On: Public trust recommendations from AI researchers
Autonomous Vehicles

Toward AI We Can Count On: Public trust recommendations from AI researchers

A consortium of top AI experts proposed concrete steps to help machine learning engineers secure the public’s trust. Dozens of researchers and technologists recommended actions to counter public skepticism toward artificial intelligence, fueled by issues like data privacy.

April 29, 20201 min read
Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.
Autonomous Vehicles

Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.

Robot vacuum cleaners are pretty good at navigating rooms, but they still get stuck in tight spaces. New work takes a step toward giving them the smarts they’ll need to escape the bathroom.

April 29, 20202 min read
Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs
Autonomous Vehicles

Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs

Recognizing stop signs, with their bold color scheme and distinctive shape, ought to be easy for computer vision — but it turns out to be a tricky problem. Tesla pulled back the curtain on what it takes to train its self-driving software to perform this task and others.

April 29, 20202 min read
Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.
Autonomous Vehicles

Finding a Floor Plan: Scan2Plan helps vacuum robots create interior maps.

Robot vacuum cleaners are pretty good at navigating rooms, but they still get stuck in tight spaces. New work takes a step toward giving them the smarts they’ll need to escape the bathroom.

April 29, 20202 min read
Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars
Autonomous Vehicles

Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars

An unconventional approach to modifying data is cutting the amount of work required to train self-driving cars. Waymo unveiled a machine learning pipeline that varies lidar scans representing pedestrians and other objects.

April 8, 20201 min read
Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars
Autonomous Vehicles

Data Augmentation in 3D: How Waymo augments 3D lidar data for self-driving cars

An unconventional approach to modifying data is cutting the amount of work required to train self-driving cars. Waymo unveiled a machine learning pipeline that varies lidar scans representing pedestrians and other objects.

April 8, 20201 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Autonomous Vehicles

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

March 11, 20201 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Autonomous Vehicles

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

March 11, 20201 min read

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