The growing demand for the internet of things (IoT) makes it necessary to implement computer vision tasks such as object recognition in low-power devices. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a potential approach for object recognition and detection. However, the convolutional layer in CNN consumes significant energy compared to the fully connected layers. To mitigate this problem, a new approach based on the Hadamard transformation as an alternative to the convolution operation is demonstrated using two fundamental datasets, MNIST and CIFAR10. The mathematical expression of the Hadamard method shows the clear potential to save energy consumption compared to convolutional layers, which are helpful with BigData applications. In addition, to the test accuracy of the MNIST dataset, the Hadamard method performs similarly to the convolution method. In contrast, with the CIFAR10 dataset, test data accuracy is dropped (due to complex data and multiple channels) compared to the convolution method. Finally, the demonstrated method is helpful for other computer vision tasks when the kernel size is smaller than the input image size.

Machine learning (ML), being now widely accessible to the research community at large, has fostered a proliferation of new and striking applications of these emergent mathematical techniques across a wide range of disciplines. In this paper, we will focus on a particular case study: the field of paleoanthropology, which seeks to understand the evolution of the human species based on biological and cultural evidence. As we will show, the easy availability of ML algorithms and lack of expertise on their proper use among the anthropological research community has led to foundational misapplications that have appeared throughout the literature. The resulting unreliable results not only undermine efforts to legitimately incorporate ML into anthropological research, but produce potentially faulty understandings about our human evolutionary and behavioral past. The aim of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to some of the ways in which ML has been applied within paleoanthropology; we also include a survey of some basic ML algorithms for those who are not fully conversant with the field, which remains under active development. We discuss a series of missteps, errors, and violations of correct protocols of ML methods that appear disconcertingly often within the accumulating body of anthropological literature. These mistakes include use of outdated algorithms and practices; inappropriate train/test splits, sample composition, and textual explanations; as well as an absence of transparency due to the lack of data/code sharing, and the subsequent limitations imposed on independent replication. We assert that expanding samples, sharing data and code, re-evaluating approaches to peer review, and, most importantly, developing interdisciplinary teams that include experts in ML are all necessary for progress in future research incorporating ML within anthropology.

Self-supervised methods have shown tremendous success in the field of computer vision, including applications in remote sensing and medical imaging. Most popular contrastive-loss based methods like SimCLR, MoCo, MoCo-v2 use multiple views of the same image by applying contrived augmentations on the image to create positive pairs and contrast them with negative examples. Although these techniques work well, most of these techniques have been tuned on ImageNet (and similar computer vision datasets). While there have been some attempts to capture a richer set of deformations in the positive samples, in this work, we explore a promising alternative to generating positive examples for remote sensing data within the contrastive learning framework. Images captured from different sensors at the same location and nearby timestamps can be thought of as strongly augmented instances of the same scene, thus removing the need to explore and tune a set of hand crafted strong augmentations. In this paper, we propose a simple dual-encoder framework, which is pre-trained on a large unlabeled dataset (~1M) of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 image pairs. We test the embeddings on two remote sensing downstream tasks: flood segmentation and land cover mapping, and empirically show that embeddings learnt from this technique outperform the conventional technique of collecting positive examples via aggressive data augmentations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the ally that sustainable development needs to design, execute, advise and to plan the future of our planet and its sustainability more effectively. Technology like AI will help us build more efficiently, use resources sustainably and reduce and manage the waste we generate more effectively, among many other matters. Combining AI with sustainable development will help all industries to design a better planet, addressing current needs without compromising future generations due to climate change or other major challenges. In the following video, we will show you some of the ways in which Artificial Intelligence is already currently being used to create a sustainable world. According to a study published in Nature, AI could help achieve 79 % of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As we saw in the video, this technology could become a key tool for facilitating a circular economy and building smart cities that use their resources efficiently.

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Artificial intelligence Energy can reduce consumption and increase production. The world is in a state of excessive energy consumption. Recently, various countries are making efforts to reduce carbon. The Democratic Party of the United States proposed the'Fair Transitional Competition Act' to impose a carbon border adjustment tax. At the same time, the European Union (EU) also announced the'Carbon Border Adjustment System' legislation along with the'Fit for 55%' to reduce European greenhouse gas to 55% by 2030.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly advancing technology, and thanks to companies like C3.ai (NYSE: AI), it's gradually becoming accessible to all businesses in all industries. The company is blazing a trail in a brand-new sector it calls enterprise AI, where it sells ready-made and customizable AI applications to customers wanting to supercharge their operations. Estimates suggest that by 2030, up to 70% of all organizations will be implementing AI in one way or another, adding $13 trillion in output to the global economy. It's a sizable opportunity for a company like C3.ai, and it already has a leadership position in the industry. The largest technology companies in the world have established partnerships with C3.ai, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google parent Alphabet, validating the quality of what the company is building.

'Urban Mobility' is emerging as the backbone of the entire city ecosystem ensuring its growth and overall success. Today's call for a greener planet and active'Climate Change' combatting agenda inevitably encourages the need for smarter, greener, and safer urban mobility channels. The emerging smart cities today are increasingly integrating mobility solutions that are based on cleaner energy usage and shared resources with an elevated level of infrastructure integration among its inhabitants. None of this can be achieved without a substantial focus on the design, planning, and delivery of urban infrastructure that enables greater efficiency in urban mobility. According to World Bank –'Traditionally, urban mobility is about moving people from one location to another location within or between urban areas.

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