Deep Learning
Now You Can Build Graph Neural Networks With Spektral Based On Keras
Recently, a PhD researcher, Daniele Grattarola built a framework known as Spektral for mapping relational representation learning which is built in Python and is based on the Keras API. Spektral contains a comprehensive set of tools to build graph neural networks as well as implement some of the popular layers for graph Deep Learning. Spektral is built with semi-supervised deep learning methods for graph data, Graph Neural Network (GNN). According to this paper, the idea of GNN is simple: to encode structural information of the graph, each node v_i can be represented by a low-dimensional state vector s_i, 1 i N. The categorisation of deep learning methods on the graph is shown below The core GNN modules of Spektral are mainly based on Keras and it works with all the different backends offered by Keras in order to promptly start experimenting with the Relational Representation Learning (RRL) which consists of developing models that are able to deal with graphs natively without having to deal with the distracting low-level details. The accessory modules of Spectral are built in Numpy/Scipy and for which everything should work at the speed of almost-C-like and without compatibility issues.
Is it A Horror Film or a Rom-Com? AI Can Predict Based Solely on Music. - USC Viterbi
Study authors include Professor Shrikanth Narayanan, Timothy Greer, Dillon Knox, and Benjamin Ma. (Images Courtesy of Narayanan, Greer, Knox, and Ma) Music is an indispensable element in film: it establishes atmosphere and mood, drives the viewer's emotional reactions, and significantly influences the audience's interpretation of the story. In a recent paper published in PLOS One, a research team at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, led by Professor Shrikanth Narayanan, sought to objectively examine the effect of music on cinematic genres. Their study aimed to determine if AI-based technology could predict the genre of a film based on the soundtrack alone. "By better understanding how music affects the viewer's perception of a film, we gain insights into how film creators can reach their audience in a more compelling way," said Narayanan, University Professor and Niki and Max Nikias Chair in Engineering, professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science and the director of USC Viterbi's Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL). The notion that different film genres are more likely to use certain musical elements in their soundtrack is rather intuitive: a lighthearted romance might include rich string passages and lush, lyrical melodies, while a horror film might instead feature unsettling, piercing frequencies and eerily discordant notes.
Books to start learning ML and DL
Follow this order to get the most benefit if you are still a beginner. This is one of the best books out there to start with your Data Science journey. It introduces us to various Machine Learning concepts with practical coding examples and a humongous GitHub repository to practice later. It also introduces us to basic Deep Learning concepts, explained brilliantly, and how to implement them using the deep learning framework, Tensorflow. You will keep on coming back to this book for years to follow to get a quick revision on your ML and DL concepts.
Google and Microsoft are creating a monopoly on coding in plain language
Sometimes major shifts happen virtually unnoticed. On May 5, IBM announced Project CodeNet to very little media or academic attention. CodeNet is a follow-up to ImageNet, a large-scale dataset of images and their descriptions; the images are free for non-commercial uses. ImageNet is now central to the progress of deep learning computer vision. CodeNet is an attempt to do for Artifical Intelligence (AI) coding what ImageNet did for computer vision: it is a dataset of over 14 million code samples, covering 50 programming languages, intended to solve 4,000 coding problems.
Artificial Neural Network for Regression
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Computer vision and deep learning provide new ways to detect cyber threats
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. The last decade's growing interest in deep learning was triggered by the proven capacity of neural networks in computer vision tasks. If you train a neural network with enough labeled photos of cats and dogs, it will be able to find recurring patterns in each category and classify unseen images with decent accuracy. What else can you do with an image classifier? In 2019, a group of cybersecurity researchers wondered if they could treat security threat detection as an image classification problem.
My Notes on Deep Learning Activation Functions.
The softmax activation is something like the combination of the multiple sigmoid functions. It is used to ensure that the total sum of the output from the layer is equal to 100%. For example, in multi-class classification problems where every observation belongs to exactly one class. So, here is the difference with Sigmoid: the first one allows the inputs/observations to belong to many classes. This activation may be placed in the final layer of the convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify the classes of hand-written digits (from 0 to 9).
A way to spot computer-generated faces
A small team of researchers from The State University of New York at Albany, the State University of New York at Buffalo and Keya Medical has found a common flaw in computer-generated faces by which they can be identified. The group has written a paper describing their findings and have uploaded them to the arXiv preprint server. Over the past couple of years, deepfake pictures and videos have been in the news as amateurs and professional editors alike have created images and videos that depict people doing things that they never actually did. Less reported but related is the increased use of computer-generated images of people that look human but who have never actually existed. Such images are created using generative adversary networks (GANs), and they have reportedly begun showing up on fake social media user profiles, which allows for catfishing and other types of nefarious activity. GANs are a form of deep-learning technology--a neural network is trained on images to learn what human heads and faces look like.
Deep Learning and Computer Vision A-Z : OpenCV, SSD & GANs
You've definitely heard of AI and Deep Learning. But when you ask yourself, what is my position with respect to this new industrial revolution, that might lead you to another fundamental question: am I a consumer or a creator? For most people nowadays, the answer would be, a consumer. But what if you could also become a creator? What if there was a way for you to easily break into the World of Artificial Intelligence and build amazing applications which leverage the latest technology to make the World a better place?