In cooperation with IARPA, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is currently running three challenges related to processing of unconstrained in-the-wild face images. The Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) is an ongoing evaluation of face recognition algorithms applied to large image databases sequestered at NIST. Algorithms may be submitted to NIST at any time, and results will be posted when ready, usually within two weeks. Homepage
Monthly Archives: November 2021
A Perspective on Americans’ Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence
Research reveals Americans have fears and concerns about AI while embracing a larger role for AI in everyday life. That’s according to the Stevens TechPulse Report: A Perspective on Americans’ Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence, a new national poll of 2,200 adults conducted on behalf of Stevens Institute of Technology by Morning Consult. The survey examined Americans’ views on a wide range of AI-related issues. Read the news release.
“As the world and our lives grow increasingly dependent on artificial intelligence, it’s essential to assess its perceived impact, as well as identify gaps in knowledge that need to be addressed,” said Jason Corso, Ph.D., Brinning Professor of Computer Science and Director of Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Stevens Institute of Technology. “It’s clear from this research that, while people recognize the positives of AI, they also see much to be wary of — based, to some extent, on misunderstandings of the technology and what could help protect against those negative consequences.” Read More
The Metaverse and How We’ll Build It Together — Connect 2021
Microsoft Metaverse vs Facebook Metaverse
Mesh for Microsoft Teams aims to make collaboration in the ‘metaverse’ personal and fun
More than a year and a half into a global pandemic that forced workers around the world to abandon their offices and learn to collaborate online, Microsoft productivity experts have observed two trends: remote workers are far more efficient than most business leaders ever imagined, and they miss each other. They miss hallway moments, kitchen catch-ups and chance encounters. They miss the body language from across the conference room table that says things that can’t be said.
… Microsoft today has unveiled a solution to this problem that begins rolling out in 2022: Mesh for Microsoft Teams. The feature combines the mixed-reality capabilities of Microsoft Mesh, which allows people in different physical locations to join collaborative and shared holographic experiences, with the productivity tools of Microsoft Teams, where people can join virtual meetings, send chats, collaborate on shared documents and more. Read More
Unsupervised Learning of Visual 3D Keypoints for Control
Learning sensorimotor control policies from high dimensional images crucially relies on the quality of the underlying visual representations. Prior works show that structured latent space such as visual keypoints often outperforms unstructured representations for robotic control. However, most of these representations, whether structured or unstructured are learned in a 2D space even though the control tasks are usually performed in a 3D environment. In this work, we propose a framework to learn such a 3D geometric structure directly from images in an end-to-end unsupervised manner. The input images are embedded into latent 3D keypoints via a differentiable encoder which is trained to optimize both a multi-view consistency loss and downstream task objective. These discovered D keypoints tend to meaningfully capture robot joints as well as object movements in a consistent manner across both time and 3D space. The proposed approach outperforms prior state-of-art methods across a variety of reinforcement learning benchmarks. Read More
Fortune Brainstorm A.I. 2021: Big breakthroughs
Dr. Andrew Ng, Founder and CEO, Landing A.I. and DeepLearning.AI Interviewer: Brian O’Keefe, FORTUNE at Brainstorm A.I., a recent conference bringing together the top executives from the world’s biggest tech companies, thought leaders, and innovators to explore key issues shaping the A.I. revolution. Read More
Generating Animations From Audio With NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Tech
Check out a tool in beta called Omniverse Audio2Face that lets you quickly generate new animations.
In case you missed the news, NVIDIA has a tool in beta that lets you quickly and easily generate expressive facial animation from just an audio source using the team’s deep learning-based technology. The Audio2Face tool allows users to simplify the animation of 3D characters for a game, film, real-time digital assistants, and other projects. The toolkit lets you run the results live or bake them out. Read More
The Future Direction And Vision For AI
This article sets out the journey of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the interrelationship with the arrival of the “era of Big Data” alongside 3G and 4G telecoms networks. This will discuss or explore how we arrived at where we are now and also where we are going to next with the era of even bigger albeit increasingly decentralised data in the era of AI meets the IoT (AIoT) and standalone 5G networks that may arrive in the next few years. Read More
Seoul will be the first city government to join the metaverse
Seoul says it will be the first major city government to enter the metaverse. On Nov. 3, the South Korean capital announced a plan to make a variety of public services and cultural events available in the metaverse, an immersive internet that relies on virtual reality. If the plan is successful, Seoul residents can visit a virtual city hall to do everything from touring a historic site to filing a civil complaint by donning virtual reality goggles. Read More
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