Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting
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Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting

The secrets of history are locked in troves of handwritten documents. Now a machine learning platform is making them amenable to digital search. Transkribus is transcribing centuries-old records en masse and making them available to scholars worldwide.

December 16, 20201 min read
Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting
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Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting

The secrets of history are locked in troves of handwritten documents. Now a machine learning platform is making them amenable to digital search. Transkribus is transcribing centuries-old records en masse and making them available to scholars worldwide.

December 16, 20201 min read
Robotaxi Reimagined: Zoox reveals an electric robotaxi.
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Robotaxi Reimagined: Zoox reveals an electric robotaxi.

A new breed of self-driving car could kick the autonomous-vehicle industry into a higher gear. Zoox unveiled its first product, an all-electric, driverless taxi designed fully in-house.

December 16, 20202 min read
Robotaxi Reimagined: Zoox reveals an electric robotaxi.
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Robotaxi Reimagined: Zoox reveals an electric robotaxi.

A new breed of self-driving car could kick the autonomous-vehicle industry into a higher gear. Zoox unveiled its first product, an all-electric, driverless taxi designed fully in-house.

December 16, 20202 min read
Seeing Eye AI: AI app for visually impaired runners
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Seeing Eye AI: AI app for visually impaired runners

A computer vision system is helping to keep runners with impaired vision on track.What’s new: A prototype smartphone app developed by Google translates camera images into audio signals.

December 9, 20202 min read
Seeing Eye AI: AI app for visually impaired runners
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Seeing Eye AI: AI app for visually impaired runners

A computer vision system is helping to keep runners with impaired vision on track.What’s new: A prototype smartphone app developed by Google translates camera images into audio signals.

December 9, 20202 min read
Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text
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Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text

It’s expensive to pay doctors to label medical images, and the relative scarcity of high-quality training examples can make it hard for neural networks to learn features that make for accurate diagnoses.

December 2, 20202 min read
Phantom Menace: Fighter pilot trains against augmented reality jet.
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Phantom Menace: Fighter pilot trains against augmented reality jet.

A fighter pilot battled a true-to-life virtual enemy in midair. In the skies over southern California, an airman pitted his dogfighting skills against an AI-controlled opponent that was projected onto his augmented-reality visor.

December 2, 20202 min read
Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text
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Learning From Words and Pictures: A deep learning method for medical x-rays with text

It’s expensive to pay doctors to label medical images, and the relative scarcity of high-quality training examples can make it hard for neural networks to learn features that make for accurate diagnoses.

December 2, 20202 min read
Phantom Menace: Fighter pilot trains against augmented reality jet.
Vision

Phantom Menace: Fighter pilot trains against augmented reality jet.

A fighter pilot battled a true-to-life virtual enemy in midair. In the skies over southern California, an airman pitted his dogfighting skills against an AI-controlled opponent that was projected onto his augmented-reality visor.

December 2, 20202 min read
Better Crowd Counts: A computer vision method for counting crowds from images
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Better Crowd Counts: A computer vision method for counting crowds from images

Did a million people attend the Million Man March? Estimates of the crowd size gathered at a given place and time can have significant political implications — and practical ones, too, as they can help public safety experts deploy resources for public health or crowd control.

November 25, 20202 min read
Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears
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Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears

Many people worry that face recognition is intrusive, but wild animals seem to find it bearable. Melanie Clapham at University of Victoria with teammates of the BearID Project developed a model that performs face recognition for brown bears.

November 25, 20201 min read
Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears
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Caught Bearfaced: Face recognition for brown bears

Many people worry that face recognition is intrusive, but wild animals seem to find it bearable. Melanie Clapham at University of Victoria with teammates of the BearID Project developed a model that performs face recognition for brown bears.

November 25, 20201 min read
Better Crowd Counts: A computer vision method for counting crowds from images
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Better Crowd Counts: A computer vision method for counting crowds from images

Did a million people attend the Million Man March? Estimates of the crowd size gathered at a given place and time can have significant political implications — and practical ones, too, as they can help public safety experts deploy resources for public health or crowd control.

November 25, 20202 min read
Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.
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Unsupervised Prejudice: Image classification models learned bias from ImageNet.

Social biases are well documented in decisions made by supervised models trained on ImageNet’s labels. But they also crept into the output of unsupervised models pretrained on the same dataset.

November 18, 20202 min read

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