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COALA: Co-Aligned Autoencoders for Learning Semantically Enriched Audio Representations
Favory, Xavier, Drossos, Konstantinos, Virtanen, Tuomas, Serra, Xavier
Audio representation learning based on deep neural networks (DNNs) emerged as an alternative approach to hand-crafted features. For achieving high performance, DNNs often need a large amount of annotated data which can be difficult and costly to obtain. In this paper, we propose a method for learning audio representations, aligning the learned latent representations of audio and associated tags. Aligning is done by maximizing the agreement of the latent representations of audio and tags, using a contrastive loss. The result is an audio embedding model which reflects acoustic and semantic characteristics of sounds. We evaluate the quality of our embedding model, measuring its performance as a feature extractor on three different tasks (namely, sound event recognition, and music genre and musical instrument classification), and investigate what type of characteristics the model captures. Our results are promising, sometimes in par with the state-of-the-art in the considered tasks and the embeddings produced with our method are well correlated with some acoustic descriptors.
Disney World Theme Parks Debut Artificial Intelligence Security Screening Process
What started as a test of a new bag check experience at Disney Springs will now expand to all four Walt Disney World theme parks. In what is a long overdue move, Disney will be moving away from a hands-on approach to bag check screening and moving into the 21st century with Artificial Intelligence screening that will greatly improve the bag check process. As a reminder, the old bag check process would rely on a security Cast Member to search your bag by hand before sending you through a metal detector to check your person. Of course, the level of thoroughness in the bag check varied from security Cast Member to security Cast Member, and introduced the element of human error. As you might imagine, we've been through security hundreds, if not thousands of times over the years, and just like everyone else, we've seen different levels of detail in the bag check searches. After a manual bag check search, security would randomly ask guests to walk through a metal detector, meaning not everyone had to pass through.
Artificial Intelligence Will Change How You Do Marketing in 2021
How often do you reflect on the ways technology changes your life as a marketer? I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. These changes don't always alter your job in dramatic ways, but they eliminate the hassles and headaches. They may speed up your time to results, automate painful routines, and enable you to focus on what matters most. Very rarely, these technologies also let you do things you'd never considered possible. No incoming martech makes a better case for this sort of incremental innovation than artificial intelligence. While new AI products are surely on the horizon--self-driving cars are coming any day now, possibly, maybe--AI's most dramatic effect on your job today lies in adding new features across the tools that you're already using.
Python Project Ideas for 2020 - Work on real-time projects to head start your career - DataFlair
Python is the most used programming language on the planet. Gaining Python knowledge will be your best investment in 2020. So, if you want to achieve expertise in Python than it is crucial to work on some real-time Python project ideas. Because theoretical knowledge is of no use until and unless you work on real-time projects. In this article, DataFlair is providing you Python project ideas from beginners to advanced level so that you can easily learn Python by practically implementing your knowledge.
The Echo Plus smart speaker is now 50 per off in the Amazon Summer Sale that's a huge saving of ยฃ70
Amazon's Summer Sale 2020 is here! The sale, which ends on Sunday, July 12, is a great time to pick up incredible bargains across Amazon's departments, including big savings on popular tech items. From top-rated fitness trackers and smart bathroom scales to bestselling wireless headphones, there are several deals on Amazon you need to know about. This includes an unmissable saving on Amazon's Echo Plus (2nd Gen). You can now get the Alexa smart speaker with a huge 50 per cent off- that's a massive saving of ยฃ70.
Empathy machines: what will happen when robots learn to write film scripts?
A few years ago I moved to San Francisco, and almost everybody I met there immediately told me they were working on a startup. These startups all had the same innocent names โ Swoon, Flow, Maker โ and the same dreadful mission: to build AIs that automated some unfortunate human's job. I always responded by pitching my own startup, Create. Create would build an AI that automated the creation of startups. The tech bros never cared for my joke, but I did.
Fake news detector with deep learning approach (Part-II) Modeling
In this series of articles, I would like to show how we can use a deep learning algorithm for fake news detection and compare some neural network architecture. This is the second part of this series, where I would like to create several deep learning models with Keras and Tensorflow. In the previous part of this series, I made exploratory data analysis for fake and not fake news. I used different analytics technic to compare fake and not fake news, let's give this work for neural networks. To start modeling, we need to make data preprocessing. Let's check NA values in our train data frame: As we can see, there is a lot of NA value in our dataset.
New AI project captures Jane Austen's thoughts on social media
Have you ever wanted to pick the brains of Sir Isaac Newton, Mary Shelley, or Benjamin Franklin? The project -- called AI Writer -- uses OpenAI's new text generator API to create simulated conversations with virtual historical figures. The system first works out the purpose of the message and the intended recipient by searching for patterns in the text. It then uses the API's internal knowledge of that person to guess how they would respond in their written voice. The digitized characters can answer questions about their work, explain scientific theories, or offer their opinions.
Amazon: How Bezos built his data machine
The next challenge was to decide what to sell beyond books. They picked CDs and DVDs. Over the years, electronics, toys and clothing followed, as did overseas expansion. And all this time, Amazon was building a battalion of data-mining experts. Artificial intelligence expert Andreas Weigend was one of the first. Before joining, he had published more than 100 scientific articles, co-founded one of the first music recommendation systems, and worked on an application to analyse online trades in real-time.