Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid
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Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid

Neural networks are famously bad at interpreting input that falls outside the training set’s distribution, so it’s not surprising that some models are certain that cat pictures show symptoms of Covid-19. A new approach won’t mistakenly condemn your feline to a quarantine.

August 5, 20202 min read
Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid
Machine Learning Research

Cats Cured of Covid: Why some deep learning models thought cats had Covid

Neural networks are famously bad at interpreting input that falls outside the training set’s distribution, so it’s not surprising that some models are certain that cat pictures show symptoms of Covid-19. A new approach won’t mistakenly condemn your feline to a quarantine.

August 5, 20202 min read
Less (Video) is More (Examples): A small data AI tool for classifying video
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Less (Video) is More (Examples): A small data AI tool for classifying video

We’d all love to be able to find similar examples of our favorite cat videos. But few of us want to label thousands of similar videos of even the cutest kitties. New research makes headway in video classification when training examples are scarce.

July 29, 20202 min read
Eyes on the Prize: Vision-only reinforcement learning improves generalizability.
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Eyes on the Prize: Vision-only reinforcement learning improves generalizability.

When the chips are down, humans can track critical details without being distracted by irrelevancies. New research helps reinforcement learning models similarly focus on the most important details.

July 29, 20202 min read
Eyes on the Prize: Vision-only reinforcement learning improves generalizability.
Machine Learning Research

Eyes on the Prize: Vision-only reinforcement learning improves generalizability.

When the chips are down, humans can track critical details without being distracted by irrelevancies. New research helps reinforcement learning models similarly focus on the most important details.

July 29, 20202 min read
Less (Video) is More (Examples): A small data AI tool for classifying video
Machine Learning Research

Less (Video) is More (Examples): A small data AI tool for classifying video

We’d all love to be able to find similar examples of our favorite cat videos. But few of us want to label thousands of similar videos of even the cutest kitties. New research makes headway in video classification when training examples are scarce.

July 29, 20202 min read
Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.
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Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.

Need a wardrobe upgrade? You could ask the fashion mavens at Netflix’s Queer Eye — or you could use a new neural network. Researchers at Amazon propose Category-based Subspace Attention Network (CSA-Net) to predict and retrieve compatible garments and accessories that complement one another.

July 22, 20202 min read
Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.
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Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.

Need a wardrobe upgrade? You could ask the fashion mavens at Netflix’s Queer Eye — or you could use a new neural network. Researchers at Amazon propose Category-based Subspace Attention Network (CSA-Net) to predict and retrieve compatible garments and accessories that complement one another.

July 22, 20202 min read
That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning
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That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning

Why search for “a cotton dress shirt with button-down collar, breast pockets, barrel cuffs, scooped hem, and tortoise shell buttons in grey” when a photo and the words “that shirt, but grey” will do the trick? A new network understands the image-text combo.

July 15, 20202 min read
That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning
Machine Learning Research

That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning

Why search for “a cotton dress shirt with button-down collar, breast pockets, barrel cuffs, scooped hem, and tortoise shell buttons in grey” when a photo and the words “that shirt, but grey” will do the trick? A new network understands the image-text combo.

July 15, 20202 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
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
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
Clothes Make the Model: Amazon's Outfit-Viton generates apparel images on demand.
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Clothes Make the Model: Amazon's Outfit-Viton generates apparel images on demand.

In online retailing, the most common customer complaints are slow shipping and inability to try on clothes. Amazon conceived its Prime program to address the first concern. To answer the second, it built a virtual fitting room.

July 1, 20202 min read

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