Facebook has hired deep learning expert Yann Lecun from New York University to head up its new artificial intelligence lab. It’s part of a bigger push along with — and against… Read more »
A new algorithm from University of Toronto researchers can predict the identity of untagged photo subjects by analyzing the relationships of the other people (or things) in the photo. Read more »
Dropbox acquired computer vision startup Anchovi Labs and its Ph.D. founders in September 2012 to very little fanfare. But the skillset they bring could be integral as Dropbox seeks to grow… Read more »
Deep learning is one of the hottest trends in big data right now and is currently underpinning the cutting edge in areas such as natural language processing and image recognition. Here’s… Read more »
Technology buyers in some sectors drool over the promise of things like cloud computing and big data, but those words don’t mean a whole lot in places like warehouses or manufacturing… Read more »
Premise Data wants to change the way decision makers think about macroeconomic indicators by changing the way they consume that data. Thanks to a glut of e-commerce data and a network… Read more »
Dropcam has released a new monitoring camera called the Dropcam Pro that’s remarkably high-resolution, but also very smart. A new user experience enables advanced zooming from a smartphone, and cloud-based machine… Read more »
A group of researchers from Stanford has been working on deep learning models that can make sense of whole sentences at a time, and has recently trained its models on a… Read more »
A Denver-based startup called AlchemyAPI is close to rolling out deep-learning-based image recognition via its API service. The company has made something of a name for itself in the text-analysis world,… Read more »
The glut of research in teaching computers to analyze and understand images could prove very helpful in letting us take full advantage of the countless hours of video we’ll produce as… Read more »