Machine Learning Visual Localization & Mapping for Autonomous Driving Image source: V-Charge Project by ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems LabThe battle against climate change needs new mobility concepts, and advancing autonomous electric vehicles could be key in the global mission to reduce CO2...
Deep Learning Agile Deep Learning For Modern Software Development Deep Learning has been called the "new electricity", with its sudden transformational power over every industry. While the attention on deep learning's innovative algorithms is well-deserved, turning innovation into value requires integrating these...
Neural Networks Self-Driving Cars: the Tech & the Roadblocks Image source: Driver Gaze Classification by Lex Fridman.With successful development, self-driving car could be the most important breakthrough in the coming decades. As cities begin to make way for autonomous vehicles, the...
Space Discovering Extrasolar Planets with Deep Learning An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun in our solar system. As of 1 April 2017, there have been 3,607 exoplanets discovered in...
Big Data Earth Day 2017: Tackling Climate Science With Deep Learning Climate change is one of the most important problems facing humanity in the 21st century. By using simulations, scientists can provide us with a unique opportunity to understand the evolution of the climate...
Deep Learning Cloud-based Deep Learning: Reducing Tedium in Radiology Radiology requires countless hours searching for tiny lesions, creating distance and contour annotations, and filling out checklists to determine stages of disease - these tasks are onerous and error-prone, resulting in high costs...
Humanoid Robots Cognitive Robotics: Learning Environment Perception Image source: Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group, University of BonnFor robots to successfully perceive and understand their environment, they must be taught to act in a goal-directed way. While mapping environments geometry is a...
Connected Home Interview with Andrew Thomas of SkyBell The world of startups is constantly moving and evolving. With the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and automated technologies in recent years, innovative new companies are often funded, acquired and...
Deep Learning World Health Day 2017 Special Offer! To celebrate this year's World Health Day on 7 April, we have a special offer for our upcoming Deep Learning in Healthcare Summit in Boston! Use the discount code HEALTHDAY to save 20%...
Machine Learning Using AI to Estimate Customer Life Time Value in E-Commerce As deep learning techniques and applications continue to spread across business and society, this technology is now making an impact on retail and advertising. Data mining and deep learning algorithms are applied to...
Smart Transport Women in STEM: Interview with Julie Choo I first met Julie Choo, a techpreneur and author, at the Deep Learning Summit in London. When I learnt of her interest and research in autonomous vehicles I invited her to participate at...
Deep Learning Beating the Perils of Non-Convexity in Neural Nets Neural networks, or "neural nets", have become a common term in the tech world and discussions around artificial intelligence, since their use in machine learning has revolutionised performance across multiple domains like computer...
Big Data Building the Foundation of the Autonomous Vehicle While tech companies battle to be the first to create fully autonomous vehicles, there is a quiet evolution happening in the background that is building the foundation for these vehicles: data collection, with...
Deep Learning Improving Reinforcement Learning With Minecraft Using games to train machine learning models has proven to be increasingly successful in recent years, and has helped to spread public understanding of algorithms and deep learning methods through mainstream media coverage,...
Big Data The Future of Emotionally Intelligent AI “Society will get the AI it deserves.” - Joscha Bach, What to Think About Machines That Think Today, AI-powered machines can defeat the most skilled players in chess, game of Go, Jeopardy and...
Machine Learning The Future of Autonomous Vehicles: Share Your Views We're working on an infographic and article for the Huffington Post about the trends and limitations of autonomous vehicles, and we'd love for our readers to be involved! Our aim is to gather...
Machine Learning A New Era of Driverless Transport is Upon Us Thanks to the collision of machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT), driverless technology is advancing rapidly, and advancements are expected to continue on this trajectory with technology giants like Google, Intel,...
Machine Learning Accelerating Tech: the Future of Autonomous Vehicles The technologies driving forward a new era of autonomous vehicles have been accelerating exponentially in the past few years. The futuristic cars that until recently were only found in science fiction could be...
Machine Learning The 6 Levels of Autonomous Driving On March 23 & 24, we will be holding our first Machine Intelligence in Autonomous Vehicle Summit in San Francisco. Autonomous vehicles has been the latest obsession of every car enthusiast and manufacturer,...
Deep Learning What is the General AI Challenge? Current AI solutions, deemed 'narrow AI', are essentially task-specific - they learn to do one, well-defined task extremely well. A 'general AI' system, on the other hand, will be capable of “learning how...
Machine Learning Applying Machine Learning & Sensing Technologies to Accelerate the Connected Car "We as an industry have to figure out how to get gigabytes of data off our cars"Renovo, says the traditional concept of a vehicle platform faces potential radical change in an era...
Big Data Music Discovery at Pandora Finding the music of the moment can often be a challenging problem, even for humans with well-versed musical tastes. These challenges further explode into a myriad of complexities when attempting to construct algorithmic...
Deep Learning UREX: Under-appreciated Reward Exploration by Google Brain The most widely-used exploration methods in reinforcement learning today (like entropy regularization and epsilon-greedy) have not changed much in the last 20 years. Google Brain argues that these exploration strategies are naive and...
Machine Learning Inspiring Women in Machine Intelligence Join us for an evening of discussions and networking around the progress and application of machine intelligence at the annual Women in Machine Intelligence Dinner in London on 21 February with expert speakers...
Deep Learning How Deep Learning is Expected to Develop in 2017 2016 saw some progressive advancements in AI technology, such as AlphaGo beating Go grandmaster Lee Sedol. We have seen other great developments such as with image recognition, where we can one day expect...