This week in AI & Machine Learning: Robotics in agriculture, making fairer AI, zapping mosquitoes, evolution of medical imaging, TensorFlow 2.5.0, semi-supervised learning, 4D panoptic LiDAR segmentation, and more!
Author’s Note:
If you’re interested in learning about computer vision or building labeled datasets for computer vision applications, checkout my two upcoming events in April: Data Annotation for Computer Vision & AI-Powered Labeling & Intro to Computer Vision: Building Object Detection Models and Datasets. I hope to see you there!
🤖 Artificial Intelligence News:
- AppHarvest acquires ag robotics and artificial intelligence company Root AI to increase efficiency ← The AI & agriculture space continues to grow! Checkout some interesting agriculture use cases we work with!
- Facebook is trying to make AI fairer by paying people to give it data
- AI helps zap mosquito larvae before they become a problem “IBM Watson AI XPRIZE showcases the ‘art of the possible’ when the power of AI is unleashed to help address some of society’s toughest challenges”
- ‘Deep Nostalgia’ Uses AI to Make Old Photos of Your Relatives Wink, Nod, Dance, and More
- Artificial intelligence can now design new antibiotics in a matter of days
- Computer Vision and the Evolution of Medical Imaging
- Manufacturers embrace robots, the perfect pandemic worker
🛠️ Developer Tools & Education:
- TensorFlow 2.5.0-rc0 Release ← a fair amount of new features released in tensorflow 2.5.0.
- OpenCV Face detection with Haar cascades
- What Is Semi-Supervised Learning
- Speedy Model Training With RAPIDS + Determined AI
- Working on Natural Language Processing (NLP) With PyTorch
📅 Upcoming Online AI & Data Science Events:
- Text Classification using GPT2 and Pytorch (Apr 9–9:30am PST)
- Data Annotation for Computer Vision (Apr 14–5:30pm PST) “Learn computer vision data annotation techniques for object detection, instance segmentation, classification, and feature point clustering.”
- Accelerate Analytics and AI with Graph Algorithms (Apr 21–23)
- PyTorch Ecosystem Day (Apr 21–8:00am PST)
- The Applied ML Summit (Apr 21–9:00am PST) “This is a two-day, free virtual interactive event on data engineering for applied machine learning.”
- Intro to Computer Vision: Building Object Detection Models and Datasets (Apr 28–5:30pm PST): ← I’ll be teaching this, so come say hi!
🎤 Interesting Podcasts & Interviews:
📄 Notable Research Papers:
- Streaming Self-Training via Domain-Agnostic Unlabeled Images
- 4D Panoptic LiDAR Segmentation
- Forecasting Characteristic 3D Poses of Human Actions
- Leaving Goals on the Pitch: Evaluating Decision Making in Soccer
- An Empirical Study of Training Self-Supervised Visual Transformers
- Multiview Pseudo-Labeling for Semi-supervised Learning from Video
- Group-Free 3D Object Detection via Transformers
- Towards General Purpose Vision Systems
🤝 Connect with AI practitioners of all levels
- Stay connected with artificial intelligence and machine learning practitioners around the world! Slack Group | LinkedIn Group
🦈 About the Author & Sixgill:
- Sage Elliott is a Developer Evangelist at Sixgill & passionate about making AI more approachable. Connect with Sage on Twitter or LinkedIn.
- Sixgill, LLC provides custom enterprise AI solutions, end-to-end machine learning lifecycle management, and fast data annotation for computer vision.