New #facebook research paper on using #GAN for “opening” eyes on the portraits.

https://research.fb.com/publications/eye-in-painting-with-exemplar-generative-adversarial-networks/

Basic intro into #python #scraping with lxml and requests: https://dev.to/timber/an-intro-to-web-scraping-with-lxml-and-python-32hl

"Breast density classification with deep convolutional neural networks"

Github: https://github.com/nyukat/breast_density_classifier
Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03674

By N. Wu, myself, Y. Shen, J. Su, S. G. Kim, E. Kim

Not quite machine learning, but close enough: method for calculating sqaure root inwardly.

DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wild

Facebook AI Research group presented a paper on pose estimation. That will help Facebook with better understanding of the processed videos.

NEW: DensePose-COCO, a large-scale ground-truth dataset with image-to-surface correspondences manually annotated on 50K COCO images.

Project website: http://densepose.org/
Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00434

#facebook #fair #cvpr #cv #CNN #dataset

More papers are available at: https://research.fb.com/facebook-research-at-cvpr-2018/

Best paper award at #CVPR2018 main idea: study twenty five different visual tasks to understand how & when transfer learning works from one task to another, reducing demand for labelled data.

Video: https://youtu.be/SUq1CiX-KzM
Project website: http://taskonomy.stanford.edu
Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.08328.pdf

How to Do Distributed Deep Learning for Object Detection Using Horovod on Azure

Link: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2018/06/20/how-to-do-distributed-deep-learning-for-object-detection-using-horovod-on-azure/

#cloud #horovod #cv #dl

Another #CVPR2018 paper award: Global Pose Estimation with Attention-based RNNs.

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06857

#pose #rnn #dl

The natural language decathlon benchmark to do well on ten different nlp tasks including question answering, translation, summarization, sentiment analysis by Salesforce research team.

Project website: https://einstein.ai/research/the-natural-language-decathlon
PDF link: https://einstein.ai/static/images/pages/research/decaNLP/decaNLP.pdf
Github: https://github.com/salesforce/decaNLP

#nlp #dl

Microsoft Research announced Open Data project! This single, cloud-hosted location offers datasets representing many years of data curation and research efforts by Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/announcing-microsoft-research-open-data-datasets-by-microsoft-research-now-available-in-the-cloud/

#data #microsoft #opensource

Kaggle №1 Winning Approach for Plant Seedlings Classification


https://medium.com/@shridhar743/kaggle-1-winning-approach-for-image-classification-challenge-9c1188157a86

Results of the OpenAI's competition on reinforcement learning:
https://blog.openai.com/first-retro-contest-retrospective/

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Translating music to predict a musician’s body movements

Long story short: animating personalized avatar with the help of neural networks.

https://research.fb.com/translating-music-to-predict-a-musicians-body-movements/

#lstm #cvpr2018 #facebook

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This is a day to remembered. #OpenAI 's team of five neural networks, OpenAI Five, has started to defeat amateur human teams (including a semi-pro team) at Dota 2:
https://blog.openai.com/openai-five/

It is important, because Dota2 is a way more complicated game than Chess or Go, where #AI has already surpassed human players.

#rl #reinforcementlearning #dl #dota2 #lstm

Tensorflow: The Confusing Parts (1)

The tutorial for beginners by Jacob, Google AI Resident. This can be nice intro for those, who wanted to get familiar with #TF

This is thorough introduction to the concepts underlying Tensorflow’s API; such as nodes, graphs and sessions.

https://jacobbuckman.com/post/tensorflow-the-confusing-parts-1/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=opendatascience

#tensorflow #tutorial #novice #beginner