The science of identifying the positions of arms, legs and joints within images is becoming a popular pastime among deep learning researchers. The techniques they develop could be particularly important in… Read more »
AlchemyAPI’s deep-learning-based system can now be used to tag famous people in photos, or to recognize non-celebrities via labeled images in corporate or social networks. It’s the latest — but not… Read more »
Nvidia is fully embracing the effectiveness of GPUs for running deep learning algorithms, releasing over the weekend a new set of libraries designed to let researchers experience the performance boost of… Read more »
The annual ImageNet computer vision competition took place in August, and once again the winning techniques blew away past winners. John Markoff at the New York Times published a piece on competition… Read more »
Baidu says its 100-billion-neuron deep learning system will be complete within six months, powering a fast transition away from text as the dominant search input. Thanks to smartphones and its new… Read more »
Jeremy Howard, the former president and chief scientist of predictive-modeling platform Kaggle, is back with a new startup he thinks can revolutionize medical diagnostics using deep learning. There’s a lot of… Read more »
An algorithm can discern a baseline image of just about anything by averaging its features across a collection of photos. Finally, we can answer questions such as what the average internet… Read more »
Yahoo has been rebuilding its research focus, and now a 250-person strong Yahoo Labs is trying to build the future of content. Full of experts in everything from personalization to deep… Read more »