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
Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.
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Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.

When you lack labeled training data, pretraining a model on unlabeled data can compensate. New research pretrained a model three times to boost performance on a medical imaging task.

March 31, 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
Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.
Vision

Same Patient, Different Views: Contrastive pretraining improves medical imaging AI.

When you lack labeled training data, pretraining a model on unlabeled data can compensate. New research pretrained a model three times to boost performance on a medical imaging task.

March 31, 20212 min read
Vision Models Get Some Attention: Researchers add self-attention to convolutional neural nets.
Vision

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
Partners in Surveillance: How police use public cameras to track license plates.
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Partners in Surveillance: How police use public cameras to track license plates.

Police are increasingly able to track motor vehicles throughout the U.S. using a network of AI-powered cameras — many owned by civilians. Flock, which sells automatic license plate readers is encouraging enforcers to use its network to monitor cars and trucks outside their jurisdiction.

March 24, 20212 min read
Partners in Surveillance: How police use public cameras to track license plates.
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Partners in Surveillance: How police use public cameras to track license plates.

Police are increasingly able to track motor vehicles throughout the U.S. using a network of AI-powered cameras — many owned by civilians. Flock, which sells automatic license plate readers is encouraging enforcers to use its network to monitor cars and trucks outside their jurisdiction.

March 24, 20212 min read
Good Labels for Cropped Images: AI technique adds text labels to random image crops.
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Good Labels for Cropped Images: AI technique adds text labels to random image crops.

In training an image recognition model, it’s not uncommon to augment the data by cropping original images randomly. But if an image contains several objects, a cropped version may no longer match its label. Researchers developed a way to make sure random crops are labeled properly.

March 17, 20212 min read
Good Labels for Cropped Images: AI technique adds text labels to random image crops.
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Good Labels for Cropped Images: AI technique adds text labels to random image crops.

In training an image recognition model, it’s not uncommon to augment the data by cropping original images randomly. But if an image contains several objects, a cropped version may no longer match its label. Researchers developed a way to make sure random crops are labeled properly.

March 17, 20212 min read
ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.
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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
ImageNet Performance, No Panacea: ImageNet pretraining won't always improve computer vision.
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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
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.
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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
Covid-19 Triage: Computer vision for x-rays helps triage Covid-19 patients.
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Covid-19 Triage: Computer vision for x-rays helps triage Covid-19 patients.

The pandemic has pushed hospitals to their limits. A new machine learning system could help doctors make sure the most severe cases get timely, appropriate care.

March 3, 20212 min read
Covid-19 Triage: Computer vision for x-rays helps triage Covid-19 patients.
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Covid-19 Triage: Computer vision for x-rays helps triage Covid-19 patients.

The pandemic has pushed hospitals to their limits. A new machine learning system could help doctors make sure the most severe cases get timely, appropriate care.

March 3, 20212 min read

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