A Quick Overview of the Hot Topics in the Smart Industry (July 15, 2019)
In an era where AI is everywhere, new technologies and research results are emerging every day, and there is a constant stream of news on AI in both academia and business.
HyperAI has compiled the major events in the artificial intelligence industry in recent days as follows. Let’s take a look together.
Academia
Harvard University publishes academic journal on data scienceHarvard Data Science Review
The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) announced the launch of the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) in collaboration with MIT Press.
The journal will provide research, educational resources, and critical studies in the emerging field of data science for thinkers, scholars, professionals, and the interested public worldwide.
With the demand for data scientists booming, HDSR will provide a centralized, authoritative, peer-reviewed community to serve the growing data science profession.
Source: insidebigdata.com
Oxford University professor was interviewed and said that China's artificial intelligence level is exaggerated
Recently, Jeffrey Ding, professor at the Artificial Intelligence Center of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, put forward a point of view in an interview with Fortune magazine: China's level of artificial intelligence development seems to be very high, but in fact a large number of Chinese papers frequently cite papers by American scholars.
He also believes that the protection of privacy data in China is lagging behind, and if the artificial intelligence industry is to be developed sustainably, more attention must be paid to citizens' privacy data.
Source: Fortune Magazine
enterprise
Huawei plans massive layoffs in the US
According to people familiar with the matter, Huawei is planning to lay off a large number of employees in its US business unit. In May, the US Department of Commerce added Huawei to the "Entity List", and this layoff may be affected by this.
Huawei plans to lay off employees at its research and development subsidiary Futurewei Technologies, which has about 850 employees in the United States, and hundreds of people are expected to lose their jobs. It is reported that some domestic employees can choose to return to Huawei in China to continue their employment.
At present, Huawei has not responded.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Google Camera's instant translation gets a major upgrade
Recently, Google Camera's real-time translation has been upgraded. Google Camera's real-time translation can translate text in pictures by taking or uploading photos.
This upgrade is reflected in language support, automation, and accuracy.
After the upgrade, it will be able to complete translation from 88 languages to more than 100 languages, automatically identify and select the source language, and through the first built-in neural machine translation, the translation will be more accurate and can be completed without a network.
Source: https://www.blog.google
technology
TensorFlow Hub adds 3 new USE multi-language models
TensorFlow Hub has added three new Universal Sentence Encoder (USE) multi-language models.
Two of the models are used to retrieve semantically similar texts, and the other model represents a completely new application of USE and will be used for question-answering retrieval in 16 languages (USE-QA).
The three newly added multilingual models are all trained using the multi-task dual encoder framework, and perform well in maintaining good transfer learning performance and semantic retrieval tasks.
Source: ai.googleblog.com
iQIYI developed the mobile AR solution SmileAR based on TensorFlow Lite
iQiyi has developed a mobile AR solution, SmileAR, based on TensorFlow Lite.
It has been deployed in many apps, including iQiyi video app with over 100 million DAU, Qibatu, a well-known app for children, and Gingerbread, a short video app, etc. It uses a number of technologies such as gesture recognition and tracking, AR scanning, and human posture estimation.
Source: medium.com/tensorflow
novel
Brainworks uses phone cameras and AI to detect heart rate and breathing
Technology company Brainworks is combining AI with the use of mobile phone cameras to detect heart rate and breathing data.
This technology is mainly used to monitor the heartbeat of premature babies. Because the baby's skin is very sensitive, the patches and wires of the vital signs monitor can cause damage to it.
By using cameras to detect tiny changes in skin color and movement, Brainworks can provide equally accurate detection results that meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) measurement standards.
Source: https://venturebeat.com
New research identifies emotions from people's walking posture
A research team from the University of North Carolina has developed a new deep learning model that can identify people's emotions based on the way they walk.
It extracts the person's gait from an RGB video of them walking, and then recognizes and classifies them into four emotions: happy, sad, angry, or neutral.
This type of perceptual emotion recognition tool can be used in human behavior research, interactive experience improvement, etc. For example, it helps develop robots with more advanced navigation, planning and interactive skills. This research has been published on arXiv.
Source: https://arxiv.org/ /1906.11884
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