The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions

In spoken conversation, people naturally take turns amid interjections and other patterns that aren’t strictly verbal. A new approach generated natural-sounding audio dialogs without training on text transcriptions that mark when one party should stop speaking and the other should chime in.

October 6, 20222 min read
The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions

In spoken conversation, people naturally take turns amid interjections and other patterns that aren’t strictly verbal. A new approach generated natural-sounding audio dialogs without training on text transcriptions that mark when one party should stop speaking and the other should chime in.

October 6, 20222 min read
The Dark Side of the Moon — Lit Up! AI Illuminates Dark Regions of the Moon
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

The Dark Side of the Moon — Lit Up! AI Illuminates Dark Regions of the Moon

Neural networks are making it possible to view parts of the Moon that are perpetually shrouded by darkness. Researchers devised a method called Hyper-effective Noise Removal U-net Software (HORUS) to remove noise from images of the Moon’s south pole.

October 5, 20222 min read
The Dark Side of the Moon — Lit Up! AI Illuminates Dark Regions of the Moon
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

The Dark Side of the Moon — Lit Up! AI Illuminates Dark Regions of the Moon

Neural networks are making it possible to view parts of the Moon that are perpetually shrouded by darkness. Researchers devised a method called Hyper-effective Noise Removal U-net Software (HORUS) to remove noise from images of the Moon’s south pole.

October 5, 20222 min read
Cookbook for Vision Transformers: A Formula for Training Vision Transformers
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Cookbook for Vision Transformers: A Formula for Training Vision Transformers

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are overtaking convolutional neural networks (CNN) in many vision tasks, but procedures for training them are still tailored for CNNs. New research investigated how various training ingredients affect ViT performance.

September 28, 20222 min read
Cookbook for Vision Transformers: A Formula for Training Vision Transformers
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Cookbook for Vision Transformers: A Formula for Training Vision Transformers

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are overtaking convolutional neural networks (CNN) in many vision tasks, but procedures for training them are still tailored for CNNs. New research investigated how various training ingredients affect ViT performance.

September 28, 20222 min read
Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier

Researchers at Baidu introduced PP-Matting, an architecture that, given an image, estimates the transparency of pixels surrounding foreground objects to create mattes without requiring additional input.

September 21, 20223 min read
Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier

Researchers at Baidu introduced PP-Matting, an architecture that, given an image, estimates the transparency of pixels surrounding foreground objects to create mattes without requiring additional input.

September 21, 20223 min read
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions

Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.

August 10, 20222 min read
Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions

Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.

August 10, 20222 min read
Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks

Let’s get this out of the way: A brain is not a cluster of graphics processing units, and if it were, it would run software far more complex than the typical artificial neural network. Yet neural networks were inspired by the brain’s architecture.

May 25, 20223 min read
Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks

Let’s get this out of the way: A brain is not a cluster of graphics processing units, and if it were, it would run software far more complex than the typical artificial neural network. Yet neural networks were inspired by the brain’s architecture.

May 25, 20223 min read
Less Data for Vision Transformers: Boosting Vision Transformer Performance with Less Data
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Less Data for Vision Transformers: Boosting Vision Transformer Performance with Less Data

Vision Transformer (ViT) outperformed convolutional neural networks in image classification, but it required more training data. New work enabled ViT and its variants to outperform other architectures with less training data.

May 4, 20222 min read
Less Data for Vision Transformers: Boosting Vision Transformer Performance with Less Data
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Less Data for Vision Transformers: Boosting Vision Transformer Performance with Less Data

Vision Transformer (ViT) outperformed convolutional neural networks in image classification, but it required more training data. New work enabled ViT and its variants to outperform other architectures with less training data.

May 4, 20222 min read
The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.

People with certain genetic disorders share common facial features. Doctors are using computer vision to identify such syndromes in children so they can get early treatment.

March 23, 20222 min read

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