The Dark Side of the Moon — Lit Up! AI Illuminates Dark Regions of the Moon
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The Dark Side of the Moon — Lit Up! AI Illuminates Dark Regions of the Moon

Neural networks are making it possible to view parts of the Moon that are perpetually shrouded by darkness. Researchers devised a method called Hyper-effective Noise Removal U-net Software (HORUS) to remove noise from images of the Moon’s south pole.

October 5, 20222 min read
Cookbook for Vision Transformers: A Formula for Training Vision Transformers
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Cookbook for Vision Transformers: A Formula for Training Vision Transformers

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are overtaking convolutional neural networks (CNN) in many vision tasks, but procedures for training them are still tailored for CNNs. New research investigated how various training ingredients affect ViT performance.

September 28, 20222 min read
Cookbook for Vision Transformers: A Formula for Training Vision Transformers
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Cookbook for Vision Transformers: A Formula for Training Vision Transformers

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are overtaking convolutional neural networks (CNN) in many vision tasks, but procedures for training them are still tailored for CNNs. New research investigated how various training ingredients affect ViT performance.

September 28, 20222 min read
Panopticon Down Under: Australian Prisons Adopt Face Recognition
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Panopticon Down Under: Australian Prisons Adopt Face Recognition

A state in Australia plans to outfit prisons with face recognition. Corrective Services NSW, the government agency that operates nearly every prison in New South Wales, contracted the U.S.-based IT firm Unisys to replace a previous system.

September 28, 20222 min read
Panopticon Down Under: Australian Prisons Adopt Face Recognition
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Panopticon Down Under: Australian Prisons Adopt Face Recognition

A state in Australia plans to outfit prisons with face recognition. Corrective Services NSW, the government agency that operates nearly every prison in New South Wales, contracted the U.S.-based IT firm Unisys to replace a previous system.

September 28, 20222 min read
Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier
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Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier

Researchers at Baidu introduced PP-Matting, an architecture that, given an image, estimates the transparency of pixels surrounding foreground objects to create mattes without requiring additional input.

September 21, 20223 min read
Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier
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Automating Mattes for Visual Effects: New ML Method Produces Image Mattes Easier

Researchers at Baidu introduced PP-Matting, an architecture that, given an image, estimates the transparency of pixels surrounding foreground objects to create mattes without requiring additional input.

September 21, 20223 min read
Court Blocks AI-Assisted Proctoring: AI Cheating Software Loses in Court
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Court Blocks AI-Assisted Proctoring: AI Cheating Software Loses in Court

A U.S. court ruled against an implementation of AI-powered software designed to catch students who cheat on academic examinations.

September 14, 20222 min read
Court Blocks AI-Assisted Proctoring: AI Cheating Software Loses in Court
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Court Blocks AI-Assisted Proctoring: AI Cheating Software Loses in Court

A U.S. court ruled against an implementation of AI-powered software designed to catch students who cheat on academic examinations.

September 14, 20222 min read
Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners
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Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners

French tax authorities netted nearly €10 million using an automated system to identify unregistered pools

September 7, 20221 min read
Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency
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Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency

A new approach alters transformers' self-attention mechanism to balance computational efficiency with performance on vision tasks.

September 7, 20222 min read
Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency
Vision

Attention to Rows and Columns: Altering Transformers' Self-Attention Mechanism for Greater Efficiency

A new approach alters transformers' self-attention mechanism to balance computational efficiency with performance on vision tasks.

September 7, 20222 min read
Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners
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Spotting Tax Cheats From Overhead: French Authorities Use AI to Tax Pool Owners

French tax authorities netted nearly €10 million using an automated system to identify unregistered pools

September 7, 20221 min read
Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers
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Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers

ViTDet, a new system from Facebook, adds an object detector to a plain pretrained transformer.

August 31, 20222 min read
Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers
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Object-Detection Transformers Simplified: New Research Improves Object Detection With Vision Transformers

ViTDet, a new system from Facebook, adds an object detector to a plain pretrained transformer.

August 31, 20222 min read

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