Oceania
Yojee to leverage Post Media's delivery network
Yojee Ltd, an Australia-based logistics and supply chain management solution supplier, will partner with Post Media, the parent company of the Phnom Penh Post and Post Khmer, to establish its own technology-based logistics platform on top of Post Media's existing daily newspaper delivery network, the company announced yesterday. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two companies inked yesterday will see Yojee deploy a same-day, next-day delivery logistics service in Cambodia that leverages the efficiency and expertise of Post Media's delivery operations, generating new revenue and synergies. The collaborative partnership will employ Yojee's artificial intelligence (AI) logistics and supply-chain management software to manage delivery of freight and parcels in the Kingdoms' fast-growing e-commerce market. Ed Clarke, managing director of Yojee, said Post Media's nationwide business network and over 1 million active readers will provide a solid foundation for his company's entry into the Cambodian market without any additional asset acquisition costs. "Having this audience to market Yojee's delivery capabilities from day one is a coup for Yojee, as it literally saves us years and significant capital expenditure to acquire such a customer base in any other manner," he said.
How to Reframe Your Time Series Forecasting Problem
You do not have to model your time series forecast problem as-is. There are many ways to reframe your forecast problem that can both simplify the prediction problem and potentially expose more or different information to be modeled. A reframing can ultimately result in better and/or more robust forecasts. In this tutorial, you will discover how to reframe your time series forecast problem with Python. How to Reframe Your Time Series Forecasting Problem Photo by Sean MacEntee, some rights reserved.
Global Bigdata Conference
Predictive analytics, the Internet of Things and machine learning are all being touted as top technologies that will improve engagement with customers, even if marketers can't agree which to prioritise, a new international survey reports. The latest Marketo global survey into the future of technology and its impact on marketing found the trio of emerging technologies were top of the list for international marketers when it comes to how to improve customer engagement. However, respondents in different marketers didn't agree on which to prioritise first. Over half of US marketers, for example (57 per cent), believed predictive analytics will be the primary technology to leverage in order to best engage with customers, compared to only 11 per cent of international marketers. The report also found 37 per cent of all surveyed saw reporting and analytics as a top priority, with US marketers leading the pack (42 per cent versus 34 per cent).
The world's best poker bot is learning, now crushing humanity again
For a few days, it looked like the humans had it figured out. Four poker pros facing off against the Libratus AI in a 20-day no-limit Texas Hold'em competition pulled back from an early $193,000 deficit with big wins on days four and six, bringing the deficit down to to $51,000, with one human, Dong King, up $33,000. "It took us a while to study and get an understanding of what was going on," one of the pros, Jason Les, wrote in an email. But then the bot started winning again and big. By the end of day 10, it was up a likely insurmountable $677,000, with all of the humans down six figures.
Airport Immigration Check Using Facial Recognition? Passports To Be Replaced With New Technology In Australia By 2019-2020
Australia's international airports are in the process of automating 90 percent of air traveler processing by 2020 by implementing facial recognition technology that involves biometric recognition of faces, irises and/or fingerprints, hence eliminating the need to carry essential traveling documents such as passports. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection, while building on the Seamless Traveller initiative announced in 2015, said Sunday that it will make a transition toward a "contactless" system for arrivals this year, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Under the new system, manned counters will be replaced by automatic electronic booths and the existing SmartGate that scan passports electronically will also be overhauled. Before introducing it to a major airport (scheduled for November), the program is to be piloted in July at Canberra Airport where international flight operations are limited to New Zealand and Singapore. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection is scheduled to implement the technology in all major airports by March 2019.
20 uses cases - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in agriโฆ
Several types of such systems exists โข Closed Loop Systems โ based on a predefined irrigation scheme the control system takes over and makes detailed decisions on when and how much water to apply โข Open Loop Systems โ based on the amount of water to be applied and the timing of the irrigation โข Volume Based System โ The pre-set amount of water can be applied in the field โข Time Based System โ works with time clock controllers (Adapted from BOMAN et al. 2006)All rights reserved. USE CASE - Face recognition systems for Domestic Cattle โข Facial recognition of cows in dairy units can individually monitor all aspects of behavior in a group, as well as body condition score and feeding. Facial recognition of cows EFFECT OF USAGE โข With this system it is possible to feed cows a lot less expensively if you know what they will and will not eat. It is meant to be deployed as a group or "swarm".The other three steps involve autonomous robots that tend the crops, harvest them, and finally one robot that can plant, tend, and harvest autonomously transitioning from one phase to another. Swarm Prospero EFFECT OF USAGE โข The application of the system increases the productivity of land on a per unit basis. USE CASE โ Strawberry Harvesting Robot โข Automated harvester recently wheeled through rows of strawberry plants here, illustrating an emerging solution to one of the produce industry's most pressing problems: a shortfall of farmhands.
Yang co-authors book on deep learning and convolutional neural network for biomedical image computing
This book presents a detailed review of the state of the art in deep learning approaches for semantic object detection and segmentation in medical image computing, microscopic image analysis, and large-scale radiology database mining. A particular focus is placed on the application of convolutional neural networks, with the theory supported by practical examples. This book describes a range of different methods that make use of deep learning for object or landmark detection tasks in 2D and 3D medical imaging; examines a varied selection of techniques for semantic segmentation using deep learning principles in medical imaging; introduces a novel approach to interleaved text and image deep mining on a large-scale radiology image database. Dr. Yang is the founder of the Biomedical Image Computing and Imaging Informatics (BICI2) lab (http://www.bme.ufl.edu/labs/yang/). His major research interests are focus on biomedical image analysis and imaging informatics, computer vision, biomedical informatics and machine learning.
Empathy: The Killer App for Artificial Intelligence
When psychologist Dr. Paul Ekman visited the Fore tribe in the highlands of Papua New Guinea in 1967, he probably didn't imagine that his work would become the foundation for some of the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI). After studying the tribe, which was still living in the preliterate state it had been in since the Stone Age, Ekman believed he had found the blueprint for a set of universal human emotions and related expressions that crossed cultures and were present in all humans. A decade later he created the Facial Action Coding System, a comprehensive tool for objectively measuring facial movement. Ekman's work has been used by the FBI and police departments to identify the seeds of violent behavior in nonverbal expressions of sentiment. He has also developed the online Atlas of Emotions at the behest of the Dalai Lama.
Kristen Stewart co-wrote an academic paper about artificial intelligence
The paper outlines the use of neural style transfer in Stewart's directorial debut, "Come Swim", which is about to premiere at Sundance Film Festival. Neural style transfer turns normal images into impressionist art, and is used by popular photo app Prisma. The paper, first spotted by Quartz, is co-bylined with Adobe research engineer Bhautik J. Joshi and producer David Shapiro. It was published yesterday on ArXiv, a repository run by Cornell University for scientific papers that are not yet peer-reviewed. "Come Swim" describes itself as "half realist, half impressionist portraits" of one man's day.
Assoc Prof Andy Russell
Originally from Leeds, U.K., Andy Russell received his BEng (Hons) and Ph.D degrees from the University of Liverpool. Prior to immigrating to Australia in 1982, Andy worked as a design engineer in private industry and at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University. He is currently Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, where his primary areas of research are mechatronics and intelligent robotics. Particular interests include humanoid robotics, robot tactile sensing, olfactory sensing for robots, the design of robotic mechanisms and robot learning.