BELLEVUE, WA – September 17, 2019 -- Today, Skylum has announced two major new features coming to Luminar 4, set to be released this fall. AI Skin Enhancer and Portrait Enhancer will enable photographers to further develop and improve their portraits. These tools use machine learning to speed up the process, but contain detailed controls for even the most demanding photo editor. Previously, photographers would have to spend time selectively editing their photographs, manually adjusting various tools through selections and masking. With Luminar 4, these tedious tools are a thing of the past.

The goal of score following is to track a musical performance, usually in the form of audio, in a corresponding score representation. Established methods mainly rely on computer-readable scores in the form of MIDI or MusicXML and achieve robust and reliable tracking results. Recently, multimodal deep learning methods have been used to follow along musical performances in raw sheet images. Among the current limits of these systems is that they require a non trivial amount of preprocessing steps that unravel the raw sheet image into a single long system of staves. The current work is an attempt at removing this particular limitation. We propose an architecture capable of estimating matching score positions directly within entire unprocessed sheet images. We argue that this is a necessary first step towards a fully integrated score following system that does not rely on any preprocessing steps such as optical music recognition.

Workers would trust a robot more than their manager, according to research released today by Oracle and Future Workplace, a research firm. They found that 64% of people around the globe would trust a robot more than their manager and half have turned to a robot instead of their manager for advice. It also found that 82% of people think robots can do things better than their managers. Some 26% of people said robots are better at providing unbiased information, 34% said at maintaining work schedules, 29% said problem solving and 26% said at budgeting. What can managers do better than robots?

Farmers in Colombia's maize-growing region of Córdoba had seen it all: too much rain one year, a searing drought the next.

In one study, Schuster and team showed that machine learning-taught fact-checking systems struggled to handle negative statements ("Greg never said his car wasn't blue") even when they would know the positive statement was true ("Greg says his car is blue"). The problem, say the researchers, is that the database is filled with human bias. The people who created FEVER tended to write their false entries as negative statements and their true statements as positive statements -- so the computers learned to rate sentences with negative statements as false. That means the systems were solving a much easier problem than detecting fake news. "If you create for yourself an easy target, you can win at that target," said MIT professor Regina Barzilay.

The research was conducted by MIT doctoral student Tal Schuster in two separate studies. While Schuster found that computers are adept and identifying ML-generated text, they have a hard time flagging what's false from what's true. Schuster says the problem lies with the database used to train computers to spot fake news. That database is called Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER). Schuster found that ML-taught computers struggled to interpret negative statements about a subject even when the computers could easily interpret positive statements.

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