Neural network generates photo captions for people with vision problems

17 February 2021

Neural network generates photo captions for people with vision problems

A neural network from Facebook AI generates descriptions for photos for users with vision problems. The app uses object recognition to generate textual descriptions of the image. It makes the…

Google Introduced Lingvo – A TensorFlow Framework for Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling

4 March 2019
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Google Introduced Lingvo – A TensorFlow Framework for Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling

Google announced that it has open-sourced Lingvo – a scalable TensorFlow framework for language modeling. Lingvo is a framework developed initially as a general deep learning framework with a focus…

The U.S. Army Intends to Turn Tanks Into AI-Powered Robots

4 March 2019
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The U.S. Army Intends to Turn Tanks Into AI-Powered Robots

A division of the U.S. Army responsible for Contracting (Army Contracting Command), suggested potential industrial contractors and research teams to submit ideas to improve its Advanced Targeting and Lethality Automated…

Google Announced New Feature in Tensorflow 2.0 — Tensorflow Datasets

28 February 2019
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Google Announced New Feature in Tensorflow 2.0 — Tensorflow Datasets

Google introduced TensorFlow Datasets – a collection of public, open-source datasets ready to use with TensorFlow. TensorFlow was lagging behind Pytorch when it comes to ease of data loading. Pytorch…

Prototype of Autonomous Ocean Observing System Uses A Swarm of Underwater Robots

26 February 2019
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Prototype of Autonomous Ocean Observing System Uses A Swarm of Underwater Robots

Researchers from the Department of Mechanical, Electronics and Chemical Engineering at Oslo Metropolitan University and the Norwegian Unversity of Science and Technology have published a paper introducing a prototype of…

China Presented The World’s First Female AI News Anchor

25 February 2019
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China Presented The World’s First Female AI News Anchor

Few months after China presented the world’s first AI news anchor, official state-run press agency Xinhua announced the first female AI news anchor. The news anchor bot, named Xin Xiaomeng…

Ecrett Music: AI-powered Music Generator for Video Soundtracks

23 February 2019
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Ecrett Music: AI-powered Music Generator for Video Soundtracks

Ecrett Music is a new online tool that offers AI-created music for backing tracks for videos. The new tool is the latest venture of Japanese entrepreneur Daigo Kusunoki. It was…

Causal Disentanglement: The Next Frontier in AI

22 February 2019
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Causal Disentanglement: The Next Frontier in AI

In a new paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have introduced a novel concept called causal disentanglement.…

New Generalized Framework for Population-Based Training by DeepMind

21 February 2019
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New Generalized Framework for Population-Based Training by DeepMind

In a new paper, researchers from Google DeepMind led by Ang Li, have introduced a generalized framework for population-based training of neural network models. Population-based training is an approach that…

The StyleGAN Code Released: Neural Network for Faces Generation by NVIDIA

18 February 2019
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The StyleGAN Code Released: Neural Network for Faces Generation by NVIDIA

NVIDIA released the StyleGAN code, the GAN for faces generation that has never existed which is the state-of-the-art method in terms of interpolation capabilities and disentanglement power. On the 18th of December…

Google AI Introduced PlaNet – A Deep Planning Network for Reinforcement Learning

18 February 2019
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Google AI Introduced PlaNet – A Deep Planning Network for Reinforcement Learning

Google AI has introduced a new Reinforcement Learning agent that learns a world model from pixel input called PlaNet – A Deep Planning Network for Reinforcement Learning. The research team…

MLcourse.ai – Machine Learning Course for Beginners by OpenDataScience

18 February 2019
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MLcourse.ai – Machine Learning Course for Beginners by OpenDataScience

MLcourse.ai is an open Machine Learning course provided by OpenDataScience. It is intended for people who are starting with Machine Learning and Data Science. The course is specifically designed so…

OpenAI Introduced New State-of-The-Art Language Model, Too Dangerous To Make it Public

16 February 2019

OpenAI Introduced New State-of-The-Art Language Model, Too Dangerous To Make it Public

OpenAI has released a new large-scale unsupervised language model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks. The model, called GPT-2 is based on a super simple, yet incredibly…

Adobe Has Introduced New AI-powered Feature for Lightroom

15 February 2019

Adobe Has Introduced New AI-powered Feature for Lightroom

Adobe has announced the new AI-based feature called Enhance Details, that can improve image quality up to 30 percent. The new feature will become available in Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic…

IBM’s AI Debater Competed And Lost Against Human In a Debate

14 February 2019

IBM’s AI Debater Competed And Lost Against Human In a Debate

IBM’s Project Debater engaged in a live debate with human debate champions. The debate was carried out at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and debaters…

Supervision-by-Registration: An Unsupervised Approach to Improve the Precision of Facial Landmark Detectors

14 August 2018
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Supervision-by-Registration: An Unsupervised Approach to Improve the Precision of Facial Landmark Detectors

Precise facial landmark detection lays the foundation for a high-quality performance of many computer vision and computer graphics tasks, such as face recognition, face animation and face reenactment. Many face…

Inferring a 3D Human Pose out of a 2D Image with FBI

16 July 2018
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Inferring a 3D Human Pose out of a 2D Image with FBI

Autonomous driving, virtual reality, human-computer interaction and video surveillance — these are all application scenarios, where you would like to derive a 3D human pose out of a single RGB…

Depth Estimation Using Encoder-Decoder Networks and Self-Supervised Learning

25 June 2018
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Depth Estimation Using Encoder-Decoder Networks and Self-Supervised Learning

Modern autonomous mobile robots (including self-driving cars) require a strong understanding of their environment in order to operate safely and effectively. Comprehensive and accurate models of the surrounding environment are…

Twin-GAN: Cross-Domain Translation of Human Portraits

25 June 2018
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Twin-GAN: Cross-Domain Translation of Human Portraits

That comes as no surprise that many discoveries and inventions in any domain come out of the researchers’ personal interests. This new approach to translation of human portraits is also…

“NLP Architect” by Intel: Taking Another Step Forward in Natural Language Processing

25 June 2018
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“NLP Architect” by Intel: Taking Another Step Forward in Natural Language Processing

Chatbots are everywhere today. Have you noticed how more and more business websites have a chatbot popping up on their home page? And this is only one out of multiple…

Random Forest Approach and Comparison to Other Models to Predict the World Cup 2018 Winner

15 June 2018
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Random Forest Approach and Comparison to Other Models to Predict the World Cup 2018 Winner

ll the attention is on the long waited one-month spectacle called the football world cup. The teams are have already arrived in Russia (the host country of FIFA World Cup…