Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.
Machine Learning Research

Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.

Wouldn’t it be great to see around corners? Deep learning researchers are working on it. Researchers developed deep-inverse correlography, a technique that interprets reflected light to reveal objects outside the line of sight.

February 19, 20202 min read
Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.
Machine Learning Research

Periscope Vision: Researchers used deep learning to see around corners.

Wouldn’t it be great to see around corners? Deep learning researchers are working on it. Researchers developed deep-inverse correlography, a technique that interprets reflected light to reveal objects outside the line of sight.

February 19, 20202 min read
Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.
Machine Learning Research

Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.

AI’s ability to transfer a person’s face from a source photo onto someone in a target photo doesn’t work so well when the target face is partially obscured by, say, eyeglasses, a veil, or a hand. A new technique handles such occlusions.

February 19, 20202 min read
Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.
Machine Learning Research

Trading Faces: FaceShifter swaps faces obscured by objects.

AI’s ability to transfer a person’s face from a source photo onto someone in a target photo doesn’t work so well when the target face is partially obscured by, say, eyeglasses, a veil, or a hand. A new technique handles such occlusions.

February 19, 20202 min read
What Love Sounds Like: AI system recognizes the sounds of mating pandas.
Machine Learning Research

What Love Sounds Like: AI system recognizes the sounds of mating pandas.

Female giant pandas are fertile for only 24 to 36 hours a year: Valentine’s Day on steroids. A new neural network alerts human keepers when a panda couple mates.

February 12, 20201 min read
What Love Sounds Like: AI system recognizes the sounds of mating pandas.
Machine Learning Research

What Love Sounds Like: AI system recognizes the sounds of mating pandas.

Female giant pandas are fertile for only 24 to 36 hours a year: Valentine’s Day on steroids. A new neural network alerts human keepers when a panda couple mates.

February 12, 20201 min read
That Swipe-Right Look: Photofeeler-D3 AI chooses the best pics for dating profiles.
Machine Learning Research

That Swipe-Right Look: Photofeeler-D3 AI chooses the best pics for dating profiles.

In an online dating profile, the photo that highlights your physical beauty may not be the one that makes you look smart or honest — also important traits in a significant other. A new neural network helps pick the most appealing shots.

February 12, 20202 min read
That Swipe-Right Look: Photofeeler-D3 AI chooses the best pics for dating profiles.
Machine Learning Research

That Swipe-Right Look: Photofeeler-D3 AI chooses the best pics for dating profiles.

In an online dating profile, the photo that highlights your physical beauty may not be the one that makes you look smart or honest — also important traits in a significant other. A new neural network helps pick the most appealing shots.

February 12, 20202 min read
Old Tools for New Synths: A summary of Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
Machine Learning Research

Old Tools for New Synths: A summary of Differentiable Digital Signal Processing

Neural audio synthesizers like WaveRNN or GANSynth produce impressive sounds, but they require large, data-hungry neural networks. A new code library beefs up the neural music studio with efficient sound modules based on traditional synthesizer designs.

February 5, 20202 min read
Old Tools for New Synths: A summary of Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
Machine Learning Research

Old Tools for New Synths: A summary of Differentiable Digital Signal Processing

Neural audio synthesizers like WaveRNN or GANSynth produce impressive sounds, but they require large, data-hungry neural networks. A new code library beefs up the neural music studio with efficient sound modules based on traditional synthesizer designs.

February 5, 20202 min read
Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper
Machine Learning Research

Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper

A protein’s biological function depends largely on its three-dimensional shape, but deducing its shape from its sequence of amino acids has been a longstanding problem. Researchers at DeepMind reveal how they used deep learning to solve the puzzle.

February 5, 20202 min read
Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper
Machine Learning Research

Protein Shapes Revealed: A summary of the AlphaFold research paper

A protein’s biological function depends largely on its three-dimensional shape, but deducing its shape from its sequence of amino acids has been a longstanding problem. Researchers at DeepMind reveal how they used deep learning to solve the puzzle.

February 5, 20202 min read
Text to Speech in Parallel: A research summary of FastSpeech text-to-speech AI
Machine Learning Research

Text to Speech in Parallel: A research summary of FastSpeech text-to-speech AI

A new system marks a step forward in converting text to speech: It’s fast at inference, reduces word errors, and provides some control over the speed and inflection of generated speech.What’s new: Yi Ren, Yangjun Ruan, and their co-authors at Zhejiang

January 29, 20202 min read
Helpful Neighbors: A research summary of the kNN-LM language model
Machine Learning Research

Helpful Neighbors: A research summary of the kNN-LM language model

School teachers may not like to hear this, but sometimes you get the best answer by peeking at your neighbor’s paper. A new language model framework peeks at the training data for context when making a prediction.

January 29, 20202 min read
Text to Speech in Parallel: A research summary of FastSpeech text-to-speech AI
Machine Learning Research

Text to Speech in Parallel: A research summary of FastSpeech text-to-speech AI

A new system marks a step forward in converting text to speech: It’s fast at inference, reduces word errors, and provides some control over the speed and inflection of generated speech.What’s new: Yi Ren, Yangjun Ruan, and their co-authors at Zhejiang

January 29, 20202 min read

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