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
All Examples Are Not Equal: An algorithm for improved semi-supervised learning
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All Examples Are Not Equal: An algorithm for improved semi-supervised learning

Semi-supervised learning — a set of training techniques that use a small number of labeled examples and a large number of unlabeled examples — typically treats all unlabeled examples the same way. But some examples are more useful for learning than others.

August 19, 20202 min read
Near-Miss Detection: Traffic monitoring AI predicts odds of collisions.
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Near-Miss Detection: Traffic monitoring AI predicts odds of collisions.

AI is helping avert traffic accidents by assessing the risk of car crashes at specific intersections. MicroTraffic, a Canadian video analytics company, predicts the odds that accidents will occur at intersections that traditional methods overlook.

August 19, 20201 min read
Deepfakes for Good: Tencent on the commercial value of deepfakes
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Deepfakes for Good: Tencent on the commercial value of deepfakes

A strategy manifesto from one of China’s biggest tech companies declares, amid familiar visions of ubiquitous AI, that deepfakes are more boon than bane.

August 19, 20202 min read
Near-Miss Detection: Traffic monitoring AI predicts odds of collisions.
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Near-Miss Detection: Traffic monitoring AI predicts odds of collisions.

AI is helping avert traffic accidents by assessing the risk of car crashes at specific intersections. MicroTraffic, a Canadian video analytics company, predicts the odds that accidents will occur at intersections that traditional methods overlook.

August 19, 20201 min read
Deepfakes for Good: Tencent on the commercial value of deepfakes
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Deepfakes for Good: Tencent on the commercial value of deepfakes

A strategy manifesto from one of China’s biggest tech companies declares, amid familiar visions of ubiquitous AI, that deepfakes are more boon than bane.

August 19, 20202 min read
Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes
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Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes

People who take driving lessons during daytime don’t need instruction in driving at night. They recognize that the difference doesn’t disturb their knowledge of how to drive. Similarly, a new reinforcement learning method manages superficial variations in the environment without re-training.

August 19, 20202 min read
Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes
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Same Job, Different Scenery: A reinforcement learning technique for visual changes

People who take driving lessons during daytime don’t need instruction in driving at night. They recognize that the difference doesn’t disturb their knowledge of how to drive. Similarly, a new reinforcement learning method manages superficial variations in the environment without re-training.

August 19, 20202 min read
All Examples Are Not Equal: An algorithm for improved semi-supervised learning
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All Examples Are Not Equal: An algorithm for improved semi-supervised learning

Semi-supervised learning — a set of training techniques that use a small number of labeled examples and a large number of unlabeled examples — typically treats all unlabeled examples the same way. But some examples are more useful for learning than others.

August 19, 20202 min read
Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.

With the rise of AI-driven surveillance, anonymity is in fashion. Researchers are working on clothing that evades face recognition systems and designed a t-shirt that tricks a variety of object detection models into failing to spot people.

August 12, 20202 min read
Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.

With the rise of AI-driven surveillance, anonymity is in fashion. Researchers are working on clothing that evades face recognition systems and designed a t-shirt that tricks a variety of object detection models into failing to spot people.

August 12, 20202 min read
Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture
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Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture

Language models like Bert, Ernie, and Elmo have achieved spectacular results based on clever pre-training approaches. New research applies some of those Sesame Street lessons into image processing.

August 5, 20202 min read
Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture
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Transforming Pixels: An image generation model using the GPT architecture

Language models like Bert, Ernie, and Elmo have achieved spectacular results based on clever pre-training approaches. New research applies some of those Sesame Street lessons into image processing.

August 5, 20202 min read
AI Against Covid Progress Report: How Chinese authorities used AI to fight Covid
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AI Against Covid Progress Report: How Chinese authorities used AI to fight Covid

A new report details the role of AI in China’s effort to fight the coronavirus. Researchers at Synced, a China-based AI publication, describe how nearly 90 machine learning products have contributed to the country’s pandemic response.

July 29, 20201 min read
Less (Video) is More (Examples): A small data AI tool for classifying video
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Less (Video) is More (Examples): A small data AI tool for classifying video

We’d all love to be able to find similar examples of our favorite cat videos. But few of us want to label thousands of similar videos of even the cutest kitties. New research makes headway in video classification when training examples are scarce.

July 29, 20202 min read

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