To boost efficiency in typical households—where people forget to take wet clothes out of washing machines, retrieve hot food from microwaves and turn off dripping faucets—Cornell University researchers have developed a single device that can track 17 types of appliances using vibrations.
The device, called VibroSense, uses lasers to capture subtle vibrations in walls, ceilings and floors, as well as a deep learning network that models the vibrometer’s data to create different signatures for each appliance—bringing researchers closer to a more efficient and integrated smart home. Read More
Daily Archives: September 11, 2020
A quantum-inspired framework for video sentiment analysis
Automatically identifying the overall sentiment expressed in a video or text could be useful for a wide range of applications. For instance, it could help companies or political parties to screen large amounts of online content and gain insight on what the public thinks about their products, services, campaigns or initiatives.
Researchers at University of Padua, the Open University and University of Copenhagen have recently introduced a new framework for video sentiment analysis that is based on quantum physics theory. Read More
Understanding Google’s BigBird — Is It Another Big Milestone In NLP?
Google Researchers recently published a paper on arXiv titled Big Bird: Transformers for Longer Sequences.
Last year, BERT was released by researchers at Google, which proved to be one of the efficient and most effective algorithm changes since RankBrain. Looking at the initial results, BigBird is showing similar signs! Read More
The Coming Tech Cold War With China
Three and a half years into its first term, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has finally assembled a comprehensive strategy for technological competition with China. From cutting chains that supply Chinese tech giants to barring transactions with them to regulating the undersea cables on which telecommunications depend, the Trump administration’s measures have often been incomplete, improvisational, and even detrimental to some of the great strengths of the American innovation system. They have, however, set the outlines of U.S. technology policy toward China for the near future. That policy rests on restricting the flow of technology to China, restructuring global supply chains, and investing in emerging technologies at home. Even a new U.S. administration is unlikely to stray from these fundamentals.
Beijing’s counterstrategy, too, has crystallized. Read More
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