More Efficient Action Recognition: Using Active Shift Layer to analyze time series data
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More Efficient Action Recognition: Using Active Shift Layer to analyze time series data

Recognizing actions performed in a video requires understanding each frame and relationships between the frames. Previous research devised a way to analyze individual images efficiently known as Active Shift Layer (ASL). New research extends this technique to the steady march of video frames.

October 7, 20202 min read
More Efficient Action Recognition: Using Active Shift Layer to analyze time series data
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More Efficient Action Recognition: Using Active Shift Layer to analyze time series data

Recognizing actions performed in a video requires understanding each frame and relationships between the frames. Previous research devised a way to analyze individual images efficiently known as Active Shift Layer (ASL). New research extends this technique to the steady march of video frames.

October 7, 20202 min read
More Data for Medical AI: AI recognizes medical scans without iodine dye.
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More Data for Medical AI: AI recognizes medical scans without iodine dye.

Convolutional neural networks are good at recognizing disease symptoms in medical scans of patients who were injected with iodine-based dye, that makes their organs more visible. But some patients can’t take the dye. Now synthetic scans from a GAN are helping CNNs learn to analyze undyed images.

September 30, 20202 min read
More Data for Medical AI: AI recognizes medical scans without iodine dye.
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More Data for Medical AI: AI recognizes medical scans without iodine dye.

Convolutional neural networks are good at recognizing disease symptoms in medical scans of patients who were injected with iodine-based dye, that makes their organs more visible. But some patients can’t take the dye. Now synthetic scans from a GAN are helping CNNs learn to analyze undyed images.

September 30, 20202 min read
Guess What Happens Next: Research teaches robots to predict unseen obstacles.
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Guess What Happens Next: Research teaches robots to predict unseen obstacles.

New research teaches robots to anticipate what’s coming rather than focusing on what’s right in front of them. Researchers developed Occupancy Anticipation (OA), a navigation system that predicts unseen obstacles in addition to observing those in its field of view.

September 23, 20202 min read
Guess What Happens Next: Research teaches robots to predict unseen obstacles.
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Guess What Happens Next: Research teaches robots to predict unseen obstacles.

New research teaches robots to anticipate what’s coming rather than focusing on what’s right in front of them. Researchers developed Occupancy Anticipation (OA), a navigation system that predicts unseen obstacles in addition to observing those in its field of view.

September 23, 20202 min read
Planet Hunter: AI identifies planets from Kepler telescope data.
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Planet Hunter: AI identifies planets from Kepler telescope data.

A machine learning model is scouring the cosmos for undiscovered planets. Astronomers from the University of Warwick developed a system that learned to identify faraway worlds in a dataset of thousands of candidates.

September 9, 20202 min read
Planet Hunter: AI identifies planets from Kepler telescope data.
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Planet Hunter: AI identifies planets from Kepler telescope data.

A machine learning model is scouring the cosmos for undiscovered planets. Astronomers from the University of Warwick developed a system that learned to identify faraway worlds in a dataset of thousands of candidates.

September 9, 20202 min read
Fewer Labels, More Learning: How SimCLRv2 improves image recognition with fewer labels
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Fewer Labels, More Learning: How SimCLRv2 improves image recognition with fewer labels

Large models pretrained in an unsupervised fashion and then fine-tuned on a smaller corpus of labeled data have achieved spectacular results in natural language processing. New research pushes forward with a similar approach to computer vision.

September 9, 20202 min read
Fewer Labels, More Learning: How SimCLRv2 improves image recognition with fewer labels
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Fewer Labels, More Learning: How SimCLRv2 improves image recognition with fewer labels

Large models pretrained in an unsupervised fashion and then fine-tuned on a smaller corpus of labeled data have achieved spectacular results in natural language processing. New research pushes forward with a similar approach to computer vision.

September 9, 20202 min read
Dropout With a Difference: Reduce neural net overfitting without impacting accuracy
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Dropout With a Difference: Reduce neural net overfitting without impacting accuracy

The technique known as dropout discourages neural networks from overfitting by deterring them from reliance on particular features. A new approach reorganizes the process to run efficiently on the chips that typically run neural network calculations.

September 2, 20202 min read
U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.
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U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.

The White House called for new funding for AI research including a constellation of research centers. Nonetheless, the U.S. government’s annual spending on the technology still would lag behind that of several other...

September 2, 20202 min read
U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.
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U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.

The White House called for new funding for AI research including a constellation of research centers. Nonetheless, the U.S. government’s annual spending on the technology still would lag behind that of several other...

September 2, 20202 min read
Dropout With a Difference: Reduce neural net overfitting without impacting accuracy
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Dropout With a Difference: Reduce neural net overfitting without impacting accuracy

The technique known as dropout discourages neural networks from overfitting by deterring them from reliance on particular features. A new approach reorganizes the process to run efficiently on the chips that typically run neural network calculations.

September 2, 20202 min read
Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.
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Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.

Marketers are using computer vision to parse customers by skin color and other perceived racial characteristics. A number of companies are pitching race classification as a way for businesses to understand the buying habits of different groups.

August 26, 20201 min read

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