Assembly Line AI: How companies are using AI to spot manufacturing flaws
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Assembly Line AI: How companies are using AI to spot manufacturing flaws

Computer vision has been learning how to spot manufacturing flaws. The pandemic is accelerating that education. Companies like Instrumental and Elementary are making AI-powered cameras that automate the spotting of damaged or badly assembled products on factory assembly lines.

July 15, 20201 min read
Assembly Line AI: How companies are using AI to spot manufacturing flaws
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Assembly Line AI: How companies are using AI to spot manufacturing flaws

Computer vision has been learning how to spot manufacturing flaws. The pandemic is accelerating that education. Companies like Instrumental and Elementary are making AI-powered cameras that automate the spotting of damaged or badly assembled products on factory assembly lines.

July 15, 20201 min read
Computer Vision Transformed: Google's Detection Transformer (DETR) for object detection
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Computer Vision Transformed: Google's Detection Transformer (DETR) for object detection

The transformer architecture that has shaken up natural language processing may replace recurrent layers in object detection networks. A Facebook team led by Nicolas Carion and Francisco Massa simplified object detection pipelines by using transformers, yielding Detection Transformer (DETR).

July 8, 20201 min read
Seeing Straight at Any Rotation: Dense Steerable Filter CNN (DSF-CNN) identifies rotated images.
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Seeing Straight at Any Rotation: Dense Steerable Filter CNN (DSF-CNN) identifies rotated images.

A cat rotated by any number of degrees is still a cat. It takes a lot of rotated training images to teach convolutional filters this simple fact. A new filter design has this common-sense knowledge built-in.

July 8, 20202 min read
Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.
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Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.

Football clubs are turning to computer vision for winning insights. Acronis, a Swiss cloud storage and security company, offers AI services designed to give a boost to some of the world’s top football clubs (soccer teams, to Americans), Wired reported.

July 8, 20201 min read
Seeing Straight at Any Rotation: Dense Steerable Filter CNN (DSF-CNN) identifies rotated images.
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Seeing Straight at Any Rotation: Dense Steerable Filter CNN (DSF-CNN) identifies rotated images.

A cat rotated by any number of degrees is still a cat. It takes a lot of rotated training images to teach convolutional filters this simple fact. A new filter design has this common-sense knowledge built-in.

July 8, 20202 min read
Computer Vision Transformed: Google's Detection Transformer (DETR) for object detection
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Computer Vision Transformed: Google's Detection Transformer (DETR) for object detection

The transformer architecture that has shaken up natural language processing may replace recurrent layers in object detection networks. A Facebook team led by Nicolas Carion and Francisco Massa simplified object detection pipelines by using transformers, yielding Detection Transformer (DETR).

July 8, 20201 min read
Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.
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Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.

Football clubs are turning to computer vision for winning insights. Acronis, a Swiss cloud storage and security company, offers AI services designed to give a boost to some of the world’s top football clubs (soccer teams, to Americans), Wired reported.

July 8, 20201 min read
Model See, Model Do: Researchers use DensePose to analyze animal behavior.
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Model See, Model Do: Researchers use DensePose to analyze animal behavior.

Scientists who study animal behavior spend endless hours observing and taking notes about a creature’s actions and reactions. Computer vision could automate much of that work.

July 1, 20201 min read
Model See, Model Do: Researchers use DensePose to analyze animal behavior.
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Model See, Model Do: Researchers use DensePose to analyze animal behavior.

Scientists who study animal behavior spend endless hours observing and taking notes about a creature’s actions and reactions. Computer vision could automate much of that work.

July 1, 20201 min read
Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector
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Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector

Facebook uses automated systems to block hate speech, but hateful posts can slip through when seemingly benign words and pictures combine to create a nasty message. The social network is tackling this problem by enhancing AI’s ability to recognize context.

June 17, 20202 min read
Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector
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Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector

Facebook uses automated systems to block hate speech, but hateful posts can slip through when seemingly benign words and pictures combine to create a nasty message. The social network is tackling this problem by enhancing AI’s ability to recognize context.

June 17, 20202 min read
Another Look at YOLO: How YOLOv4 is different from earlier versions
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Another Look at YOLO: How YOLOv4 is different from earlier versions

The latest update of the acclaimed real-time object detector You Only Look Once is more accurate than ever. Researchers at Taiwan’s Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica offer YOLOv4 — the first version not to include the architecture’s original creators.

June 3, 20202 min read
AI Does the Dishes: Dishcraft Robotics automatically cleans dishes and utensils.
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AI Does the Dishes: Dishcraft Robotics automatically cleans dishes and utensils.

A pioneer in dishwashing robots is reaching into commercial kitchens. Dishcraft Robotics uses machines equipped with computer vision to scrub dirties for corporate food services and, soon, restaurants.

June 3, 20201 min read
AI Does the Dishes: Dishcraft Robotics automatically cleans dishes and utensils.
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AI Does the Dishes: Dishcraft Robotics automatically cleans dishes and utensils.

A pioneer in dishwashing robots is reaching into commercial kitchens. Dishcraft Robotics uses machines equipped with computer vision to scrub dirties for corporate food services and, soon, restaurants.

June 3, 20201 min read

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