Bugbot: How AI can help with the insect biodiversity crisis.
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Bugbot: How AI can help with the insect biodiversity crisis.

An insect-sorting robot could help scientists grapple with the global biodiversity crisis. An automated insect classifier sucks in tiny arthropods, classifies them, and maps their most important identifying features.

July 7, 20212 min read
Bugbot: How AI can help with the insect biodiversity crisis.
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Bugbot: How AI can help with the insect biodiversity crisis.

An insect-sorting robot could help scientists grapple with the global biodiversity crisis. An automated insect classifier sucks in tiny arthropods, classifies them, and maps their most important identifying features.

July 7, 20212 min read
Pattern for Efficient Learning: A training method for few-shot learning in computer vision.
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Pattern for Efficient Learning: A training method for few-shot learning in computer vision.

Getting high accuracy out of a classifier trained on a small number of examples is tricky. You might train the model on several large-scale datasets prior to few-shot training, but what if the few-shot dataset includes novel classes? A new method performs well even in that case.

June 30, 20212 min read
Pattern for Efficient Learning: A training method for few-shot learning in computer vision.
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Pattern for Efficient Learning: A training method for few-shot learning in computer vision.

Getting high accuracy out of a classifier trained on a small number of examples is tricky. You might train the model on several large-scale datasets prior to few-shot training, but what if the few-shot dataset includes novel classes? A new method performs well even in that case.

June 30, 20212 min read
Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.
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Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.

Computer vision is probing the history of ancient pottery | What’s new: Researchers at Northern Arizona University developed a machine learning model that identifies different styles of Native American painting on ceramic fragments and sorts the shards by historical period.

June 23, 20211 min read
Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.
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Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.

Computer vision is probing the history of ancient pottery | What’s new: Researchers at Northern Arizona University developed a machine learning model that identifies different styles of Native American painting on ceramic fragments and sorts the shards by historical period.

June 23, 20211 min read
The Writing, Not the Doodles: A handwriting detection AI model for messy paper.
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The Writing, Not the Doodles: A handwriting detection AI model for messy paper.

Systems designed to turn handwriting into text typically work best on pages with a consistent layout, such as a single column unbroken by drawings, diagrams, or extraneous symbols. A new system removes that requirement.

June 16, 20212 min read
The Writing, Not the Doodles: A handwriting detection AI model for messy paper.
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The Writing, Not the Doodles: A handwriting detection AI model for messy paper.

Systems designed to turn handwriting into text typically work best on pages with a consistent layout, such as a single column unbroken by drawings, diagrams, or extraneous symbols. A new system removes that requirement.

June 16, 20212 min read
Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
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Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.

AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.

June 2, 20212 min read
One Model for Vision-Language: A general purpose AI for vision and language tasks.
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One Model for Vision-Language: A general purpose AI for vision and language tasks.

Researchers have proposed task-agnostic architectures for image classification tasks and language tasks. New work proposes a single architecture for vision-language tasks.

June 2, 20212 min read
Tesla All-In For Computer Vision: Tesla cut radar from its self-driving system.
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Tesla All-In For Computer Vision: Tesla cut radar from its self-driving system.

Tesla is abandoning radar in favor of a self-driving system that relies entirely on cameras. The electric car maker announced it will no longer include radar sensors on Model 3 sedans and Model Y compact SUVs sold in North America.

June 2, 20212 min read
One Model for Vision-Language: A general purpose AI for vision and language tasks.
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One Model for Vision-Language: A general purpose AI for vision and language tasks.

Researchers have proposed task-agnostic architectures for image classification tasks and language tasks. New work proposes a single architecture for vision-language tasks.

June 2, 20212 min read
Tesla All-In For Computer Vision: Tesla cut radar from its self-driving system.
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Tesla All-In For Computer Vision: Tesla cut radar from its self-driving system.

Tesla is abandoning radar in favor of a self-driving system that relies entirely on cameras. The electric car maker announced it will no longer include radar sensors on Model 3 sedans and Model Y compact SUVs sold in North America.

June 2, 20212 min read
Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.
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Radiologists Eye AI: Radiologists increasingly rely upon computer vision.

AI lately has achieved dazzling success interpreting X-rays and other medical imagery in the lab. Now it’s catching on in the clinic. Roughly one-third of U.S. radiologists use AI in some form in their work.

June 2, 20212 min read
What Machines Want to See: An image compressor for more accurate computer vision
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What Machines Want to See: An image compressor for more accurate computer vision

Researchers typically downsize images for vision networks to accommodate limited memory and accelerate processing. A new method not only compresses images but yields better classification.

May 26, 20211 min read

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