Medical AI Gets a Grip: An AI System controlled DaVinci surgical robots.
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Medical AI Gets a Grip: An AI System controlled DaVinci surgical robots.

Surgical robots perform millions of delicate operations annually under human control. Now they’re getting ready to operate on their own.

May 19, 20212 min read
Medical AI Gets a Grip: An AI System controlled DaVinci surgical robots.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Medical AI Gets a Grip: An AI System controlled DaVinci surgical robots.

Surgical robots perform millions of delicate operations annually under human control. Now they’re getting ready to operate on their own.

May 19, 20212 min read
Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites
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Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites

In some animated games, different characters can perform the same actions — say, walking, jumping, or casting spells. A new system learned from unlabeled data to transfer such motions from one character to another.

April 14, 20212 min read
Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Motion Mapper: An AI system for automated animations for video game sprites

In some animated games, different characters can perform the same actions — say, walking, jumping, or casting spells. A new system learned from unlabeled data to transfer such motions from one character to another.

April 14, 20212 min read
Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.
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Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.

It’s well established that pretraining a model on a large dataset improves performance on fine-tuned tasks. In sufficient quantity and paired with a big model, even data scraped from the internet at random can contribute to the performance boost.

April 7, 20212 min read
Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.

It’s well established that pretraining a model on a large dataset improves performance on fine-tuned tasks. In sufficient quantity and paired with a big model, even data scraped from the internet at random can contribute to the performance boost.

April 7, 20212 min read
Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.
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Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.

Self-attention is a key element in state-of-the-art language models, but it struggles to process images because its memory requirement rises rapidly with the size of the input. New research addresses the issue with a simple twist on a convolutional neural network.

March 31, 20212 min read
Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.

Self-attention is a key element in state-of-the-art language models, but it struggles to process images because its memory requirement rises rapidly with the size of the input. New research addresses the issue with a simple twist on a convolutional neural network.

March 31, 20212 min read
Deciphering The Brain’s Visual Signals: AI uses brain activity to create images.
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Deciphering The Brain’s Visual Signals: AI uses brain activity to create images.

What’s creepier than images from the sci-fi TV series Doctor Who? Images generated by a network designed to visualize what goes on in peoples’ brains while they watch Doctor Who.

March 24, 20212 min read
Deciphering The Brain’s Visual Signals: AI uses brain activity to create images.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Deciphering The Brain’s Visual Signals: AI uses brain activity to create images.

What’s creepier than images from the sci-fi TV series Doctor Who? Images generated by a network designed to visualize what goes on in peoples’ brains while they watch Doctor Who.

March 24, 20212 min read
Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.
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Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.

Many medical drugs work by modulating the body’s production of specific proteins. Recent research aimed to predict this activity, enabling researchers to identify drugs that might counteract the effects of Covid-19.

March 17, 20212 min read
Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.

Many medical drugs work by modulating the body’s production of specific proteins. Recent research aimed to predict this activity, enabling researchers to identify drugs that might counteract the effects of Covid-19.

March 17, 20212 min read
Seeing People From a New Angle: Neural Body is an AI tool for generating 3D images of people.
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Seeing People From a New Angle: Neural Body is an AI tool for generating 3D images of people.

The University of Hong Kong, and Cornell University to create Neural Body, a procedure that generates novel views of a single human character based on shots from only a few angles.

March 10, 20212 min read
Seeing People From a New Angle: Neural Body is an AI tool for generating 3D images of people.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Seeing People From a New Angle: Neural Body is an AI tool for generating 3D images of people.

The University of Hong Kong, and Cornell University to create Neural Body, a procedure that generates novel views of a single human character based on shots from only a few angles.

March 10, 20212 min read
ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.

It’s commonly assumed that models pretrained to achieve high performance on ImageNet will perform better on other visual tasks after fine-tuning. But is it always true? A new study reached surprising conclusions.

March 10, 20212 min read

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