tag > ML
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Generating music in the waveform domain - A comprehensive overview of the field
In November last year, I co-presented a tutorial on waveform-based music processing with deep learning with Jordi Pons and Jongpil Lee at ISMIR 2019. Jongpil and Jordi talked about music classification and source separation respectively, and I presented the last part of the tutorial, on music generation in the waveform domain.
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NeRF - Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
We present a method that achieves state-of-the-art results for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes by optimizing an underlying continuous volumetric scene function using a sparse set of input views. We describe how to effectively optimize neural radiance fields to render photorealistic novel views of scenes with complicated geometry and appearance.
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As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets (NYTimes)
New software in China decides whether people should be quarantined or permitted to enter public places like subways. Green means a person is at liberty to go out.Credit...Raymond Zhong As countries around the world race to contain the pandemic, many are deploying digital surveillance tools as a means to exert social control, even turning security agency technologies on their own civilians. Health and law enforcement authorities are understandably eager to employ every tool at their disposal to try to hinder the virus — even as the surveillance efforts threaten to alter the precarious balance between public safety and personal privacy on a global scale. Yet ratcheting up surveillance to combat the pandemic now could permanently open the doors to more invasive forms of snooping later. It is a lesson Americans learned after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Saddy Waddy - The Private Sector
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Democratic Party's donkey symbol replaced by a rat in Google search (Mashable)
Image: Screenshot / google A Google spokesperson suggested that if only the Democratic Party had taken the time to claim its Knowledge Panel then we wouldn't be in this mess. "Most images in Knowledge Panels are automatically generated from pages on the web," wrote the spokesperson over email. "When errors are reported, we fix them quickly. We encourage people and organizations to claim their Knowledge Panels, which allows them to select a representative image."
Social media giants warn of AI moderation errors as coronavirus empties offices (Reuters)
Alphabet Inc’s YouTube, Facebook and Twitter warned on Monday that more videos and other content could be erroneously removed for policy violations, as the companies empty offices and rely on automated takedown software during the coronavirus pandemic. In a blog post, Google said that to reduce the need for people to come into offices, YouTube and other business divisions are temporarily relying more on artificial intelligence and automated tools to find problematic content.
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How’s the economy? Fed increasingly turns to private data (AP)
#Comment: Predictably, computational economics is take centre stage, even in the brain-dead US public discourse. It is a key component towards turnkey "Computational Totalitarianism" - a concept which elites around the global are embracing as a new governance system.
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The AI system directs doctors to those areas of the patient’s lungs that require special attention by circling them in different colours. Photo: Handout The AI system on the Tianhe-1 computer can go through hundreds of images generated by computed tomography (CT) and gave a diagnosis in about 10 seconds, according to the National Supercomputer Centre in Tianjin, which hosts the machine. The accuracy of the analysis was higher than 80 per cent “and increasing steadily every day”. China has offered free use of the machine around the world, but US Centres for Disease Control says it does not recommend using scans to diagnose Covid-19.
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China prepares to unleash artificial intelligence to catch tax cheats (SCMP, 2019)
The AI system is linked to a number of different databases, allowing it to cross-check information. Photo: AFP Researchers involved in project say it will make it almost impossible to avoid detection, while the current fragmented system is easier to get around. Concerns about economic impact may delay its introduction as many private firms rely on informal deals with local tax authorities to limit the amount they pay. The AI engine has been embedded in the heart of the Golden Tax System, the software used by the State Taxation Administration, China’s top tax office.
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Google TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning
Today, in collaboration with the Uni of Waterloo, X, and Volkswagen, we release of TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ), an open-source library for the rapid prototyping of quantum ML models. TFQ provides the tools necessary for bringing the quantum computing and machine learning research communities together to control and model natural or artificial quantum systems; e.g. Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) processors with ~50 - 100 qubits.
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Alphabet's moonshot division unveils its latest project Tidal, which aims to help sustainable fishing (Business Insider)
Google's latest moonshot is an ocean conservation project. Called "Tidal," the project will involve monitoring fish behavior using underwater cameras and what it calls "machine perception tools," which can detect and interpret fish behaviors invisible to the human eye. Tidal says its software can monitor the behavior and welfare thousands of thousands of individual fish over time, letting fish farmers manage their pens more effectively and efficiently.
Though Google only announced Tidal in a blog post published Monday, the tech giant says it has spent the past three years talking with fish farmers to inform its fish-monitoring tech.
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‘The new normal’: China’s excessive coronavirus public monitoring could be here to stay
Experts say the coronavirus has given the Chinese government a pretext for accelerating the mass surveillance: “Intrusive surveillance is already the ‘new normal’. The question for China is what, if any, is a level of surveillance that the population refuses to tolerate,” said Stuart Hargreaves, an associate professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong’s law school.
Coronavirus forces Europe to confront China dependency (SCMP)
Mounting supply chain problems are fuelling arguments for greater independence from Beijing's manufacturing might. Outbreak has already caused Chinese exports to plummet, falling by 17.2 per cent in January-February compared with a year ago.
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CookGAN Generates Realistic Meal Images From an Ingredients List (paper)
CookGAN uses an attention-based ingredients-image association model to condition a generative neural network tasked with synthesizing meal images. The framework enables the model to generate realistic meal images corresponding to an ingredients list alone.
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Big Tech Is Testing You (newyorker)
Large-scale social experiments are now ubiquitous, and conducted without public scrutiny. [...] There’s untold good that can be done by experimentation in the digital age. It can help us to identify ways of promoting healthier life styles. But where these experiments are being done away from public scrutiny, the ethos of science is compromised. The Big Tech companies can tell us their findings. I’m just not sure it’s enough to take their word for it.
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Recent Machine Learning Papers with Videos (2020)
Image2StyleGAN++: How to Edit the Embedded Images? (CVPR 2020)
D3S - A Discriminative Single Shot Segmentation Tracker (CVPR 2020)
Zooming Slow-Mo: Fast and Accurate One-Stage Space-Time Video Super-Resolution (CVPR-2020) (code)
IGNOR: Image-guided Neural Object Rendering (ICLR 2020)
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AI powered Solar Panels Inspection
The Solar industry is booming and emerging as the fastest growing source of renewable energy. Like most other industries, efficiency plays a crucial role for the sustenance of a company in this field. A time taking and labour intensive process which consumes a significant chunk of operating costs are the Solar Plant inspections. Regular inspections ensure that potential defects that could reduce power yield are caught early and repaired.
AI powered Wind Turbine Inspection
Given the safety hazards and time taken to carry out wind turbine inspections, it is not surprising that the use of drones for this purpose is on the rise. Not only do they help carry out regular inspections but also help identify and gather data to support warranty claims. The conventional manual inspections using ropes and platforms can at best inspect 2-3 wind turbines a day while a semi-automatic drone could inspect 12-15 turbines in the same time.
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Information And Complexity - Book by Mark Burgin & Cristian Calude (2016)
The book is a collection of papers of experts in the fields of information and complexity. Information is a basic structure of the world, while complexity is a fundamental property of systems and processes. There are intrinsic relations between information and complexity. The research in information theory, the theory of complexity and their interrelations is very active. The book will expand knowledge on information, complexity and their relations representing the most recent and advanced studies and achievements in this area. The goal of the book is to present the topic from different perspectives — mathematical, informational, philosophical, methodological, etc.
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The @EU_Commission just presented their strategy to shape Europe‘s digital future. See this summary by @AlexandraGeese
On the digital strategy: „Information and communication technologies are expected to achieve 10% of the overall reduction in CO² emissions in all sectors by 2030, i.e. one fifth of the 50 percent reduction envisaged in the Green New Deal. This is a good start, but does not exploit the technical potential.“
