Wreck Recognition: How insurers use computer vision to assess car damage.
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Wreck Recognition: How insurers use computer vision to assess car damage.

Automobile insurers are increasingly turning to machine learning models to calculate the cost of car repairs. The pandemic has made it difficult for human assessors to visit vehicles damaged in crashes, so the insurance industry is embracing automation.

April 28, 20211 min read
Wreck Recognition: How insurers use computer vision to assess car damage.
Vision

Wreck Recognition: How insurers use computer vision to assess car damage.

Automobile insurers are increasingly turning to machine learning models to calculate the cost of car repairs. The pandemic has made it difficult for human assessors to visit vehicles damaged in crashes, so the insurance industry is embracing automation.

April 28, 20211 min read
Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.
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Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.

Neural networks for image generation don’t just create new art — they can help recreate works that have been lost for ages. Oxia Palus, a UK startup dedicated to resurrecting lost art through AI.

April 21, 20212 min read
Toward Better Video Search: An NLP system for improved video search
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Toward Better Video Search: An NLP system for improved video search

Researchers at the University of Bristol led by Michael Wray propose a new benchmark, Semantic Similarity Video Retrieval (SVR), that evaluates video retrieval systems by their ability to rank many similar videos. They also built a system that performed well on it.

April 21, 20212 min read
Toward Better Video Search: An NLP system for improved video search
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Toward Better Video Search: An NLP system for improved video search

Researchers at the University of Bristol led by Michael Wray propose a new benchmark, Semantic Similarity Video Retrieval (SVR), that evaluates video retrieval systems by their ability to rank many similar videos. They also built a system that performed well on it.

April 21, 20212 min read
Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.
Vision

Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.

Neural networks for image generation don’t just create new art — they can help recreate works that have been lost for ages. Oxia Palus, a UK startup dedicated to resurrecting lost art through AI.

April 21, 20212 min read
Who Watches the Welders?: John Deere uses computer vision to ensure quality welding.
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Who Watches the Welders?: John Deere uses computer vision to ensure quality welding.

A robot inspector is looking over the shoulders of robot welders. Farm equipment maker John Deere described a computer vision system that spots defective joints, helping to ensure that its heavy machinery leaves the production line ready to roll.

April 14, 20211 min read
Who Watches the Welders?: John Deere uses computer vision to ensure quality welding.
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Who Watches the Welders?: John Deere uses computer vision to ensure quality welding.

A robot inspector is looking over the shoulders of robot welders. Farm equipment maker John Deere described a computer vision system that spots defective joints, helping to ensure that its heavy machinery leaves the production line ready to roll.

April 14, 20211 min read
Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.
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Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.

Key machine learning datasets are riddled with mistakes. Several benchmark datasets are shot through with incorrect labels. On average, 3.4 percent of examples in 10 commonly used datasets are mislabeled and the detrimental impact of such errors rises with model size.

April 14, 20212 min read
Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.
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Labeling Errors Everywhere: Many deep learning datasets contain mislabeled data.

Key machine learning datasets are riddled with mistakes. Several benchmark datasets are shot through with incorrect labels. On average, 3.4 percent of examples in 10 commonly used datasets are mislabeled and the detrimental impact of such errors rises with model size.

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
Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.
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Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.

Some doctors don’t trust a second opinion when it comes from an AI system. A team at MIT and Regensburg University investigated how physicians responded to diagnostic advice they received from a machine learning model versus a human expert.

April 7, 20211 min read
Pretraining on Uncurated Data: How unlabeled data improved computer vision accuracy.
Vision

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
Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.
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Would Your Doctor Take AI’s Advice?: Some doctors are skeptical of AI diagnoses.

Some doctors don’t trust a second opinion when it comes from an AI system. A team at MIT and Regensburg University investigated how physicians responded to diagnostic advice they received from a machine learning model versus a human expert.

April 7, 20211 min read
De-Facing ImageNet: Researchers blur all faces in ImageNet.
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De-Facing ImageNet: Researchers blur all faces in ImageNet.

ImageNet now comes with privacy protection.What’s new: The team that manages the machine learning community’s go-to image dataset blurred all the human faces pictured in it and tested how models trained on the modified images on a variety of image recognition tasks.

April 7, 20212 min read

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