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Eye in the sky: Japan seeks AI-guided surveillance for patrol planes

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Japan will begin research on using artificial intelligence to bolster surveillance by naval patrol aircraft, as a changing national security environment forces the Self-Defense Forces to take on wider roles despite a personnel shortage. The AI would help ascertain whether a target spotted by conventional radar is an enemy vessel or some other threat. Machine learning through previous data would be used to develop the ability to identify a vessel from images that are difficult for the human eye to decipher. Currently, radar data converted to black-and-white images are scrutinized by experienced SDF personnel. The Defense Ministry will use a budget of about 900 million yen ($8.25 million) for development in the fiscal year starting in April, with the goal of outfitting Maritime SDF patrol planes with the technology as early as fiscal 2024.


Asia Times America's misguided war on Chinese technology Opinion

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The worst foreign-policy decision by the United States of the last generation – and perhaps longer – was the "war of choice" that it launched in Iraq in 2003 for the stated purpose of eliminating weapons of mass destruction that did not, in fact, exist. Understanding the illogic behind that disastrous decision has never been more relevant, because it is being used to justify a similarly misguided US policy today. The decision to invade Iraq followed the illogic of then-US vice-president Richard Cheney, who declared that even if the risk of WMD falling into terrorist hands was tiny – say, 1% – we should act as if that scenario would certainly occur. Such reasoning is guaranteed to lead to wrong decisions more often than not. Yet the US and some of its allies are now using the Cheney Doctrine to attack Chinese technology.


A List of Chip/IP for Deep Learning

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Machine Learning, especially Deep Learning technology is driving the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI). At the beginning, deep learning has primarily been a software play. Start from the year 2016, the need for more efficient hardware acceleration of AI/ML/DL was recognized in academia and industry. This year, we saw more and more players, including world's top semiconductor companies as well as a number of startups, even tech giants Google, have jumped into the race. I believe that it could be very interesting to look at them together. So, I build this list of AI/ML/DL ICs and IPs on Github and keep updating. If you have any suggestion or new information, please let me know. The companies and products in the list are organized into five categories as shown in the following table. Intel purchased Nervana Systems who was developing both a GPU/software approach in addition to their Nervana Engine ASIC. Intel is also planning in integrating into the Phi platform via a Knights Crest project.


Read My Honor 10 Long Term Review - Fabulous AI

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I had more than a month to try out the new Honor 10 and here is my honest review on what I think of the phone. Hint – AI camera is awesome! I got the chance to review the Honor 10 over the period of more than a month recently and there are tons of stuffs that I like about it. Of course there are some misses along the way but I feel those are forgivable. But when it comes to AI features in the camera, the Honor 10 scores high in my books.


Advances in Machine Learning for the Behavioral Sciences

arXiv.org Machine Learning

This is most apparent when auto-encoders are trained, where a network is trained to map the input data upon itself but is forced to project them into a lower-dimensional embedding space on the way (Vincent et al., 2010). In addition to the conventional fully connected layers, there are various special types of network connections. For example, in computer vision, convolu-tional layers are commonly used, which train multiple sliding windows that move over the image data and process just a part of the image at a time, thereby learning to recognize local features. These layers are subsequently abstracted into more and more complex visual patterns (Krizhevsky et al., 2017). For temporal data, one can use recurrent neural networks, which do not make predictions for individual input vectors, but for a sequence of input vectors. To do so, they allow feeding abstracted information from previous data points forward to the next layers.


Ground Metric Learning on Graphs

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Optimal transport (OT) distances between probability distributions are parameterized by the ground metric they use between observations. Their relevance for real-life applications strongly hinges on whether that ground metric parameter is suitably chosen. Selecting it adaptively and algorithmically from prior knowledge, the so-called ground metric learning GML) problem, has therefore appeared in various settings. We consider it in this paper when the learned metric is constrained to be a geodesic distance on a graph that supports the measures of interest. This imposes a rich structure for candidate metrics, but also enables far more efficient learning procedures when compared to a direct optimization over the space of all metric matrices. We use this setting to tackle an inverse problem stemming from the observation of a density evolving with time: we seek a graph ground metric such that the OT interpolation between the starting and ending densities that result from that ground metric agrees with the observed evolution. This OT dynamic framework is relevant to model natural phenomena exhibiting displacements of mass, such as for instance the evolution of the color palette induced by the modification of lighting and materials.


Machine learning for HIV prevention in rural Africa: the SEARCH for sustainability

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Machine learning to identify persons at high-risk of HIV acquisition in rural Kenya and Uganda

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Between 2013-2017, 75% of residents in 16 communities in the SEARCH Study tested annually for HIV. In this population, we evaluated three strategies for using demographic factors to predict the one-year risk of HIV seroconversion: (1) membership in 1 known "Risk Group" (e.g., young woman or HIV-infected spouse); (2) a "Model-based" risk score constructed with logistic regression; (3) a "Machine Learning" risk score constructed with the Super Learner algorithm. We hypothesized Machine Learning would identify high-risk individuals more efficiently (fewer persons targeted for a fixed sensitivity) and with higher sensitivity (for a fixed number of persons targeted) than either other approach.


Global Cognitive Informatics Market by Technology, Solution, Sector, Industry Vertical, and Region 2019-2024 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Cognitive Informatics Market by Technology, Solution (Smart Data, Self-Adaptive Software, Self-Correcting Infrastructure, Cognitive Analytics), Sector (Consumer, Enterprise, Industrial, Government), Industry Vertical, and Region 2019-2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report assesses the cognitive informatics market including technologies, companies, strategies, and solutions. It includes analysis by industry sector and major industry verticals. It also evaluates the impact of 5G, edge computing, and IoT on the cognitive informatics market. All forecasts provide a market outlook from 2019 through 2024.


An Ophthalmologist's Guide to Deciphering Studies in Artificial Intelligence

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Deep learning, a recently described AI machine learning technique, when applied to image analysis, allows the algorithm to analyze data using multiple processing layers to extract different image features,1x1LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y., and Hinton, G. Deep learning. In ophthalmology, many groups have reported exceptional diagnostic performance using deep learning algorithms to detect various ocular conditions based on anterior segment topography (e.g., keratoconus),5x5Hwang, E.S., Perez-Straziota, C.E., Kim, S.W. et al. Distinguishing highly asymmetric keratoconus eyes using combined Scheimpflug and spectral-domain OCT analysis. Development and validation of a deep learning system for diabetic retinopathy and related eye diseases using retinal images from multiethnic populations with diabetes. Improved automated detection of diabetic retinopathy on a publicly available dataset through integration of deep learning. Efficacy of a deep learning system for detecting glaucomatous optic neuropathy based on color fundus photographs.