Rapid adaptation of deep learning teaches drones to survive any weather
To be truly useful, drones—that is, autonomous flying vehicles—will need to learn to navigate real-world weather and wind conditions.
May 4, 2022
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Robotics
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Software
Engineers look to an old source to empower the future of computer vision
Artificial intelligence seems perfect for creating massive sets of images needed to train autonomous cars and other machines to see their environment, but current generative AI systems have shortcomings that can limit their ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Automotive
Immune to hacks: Inoculating deep neural networks to thwart attacks
If a sticker on a banana can make it show up as a toaster, how might strategic vandalism warp how an autonomous vehicle perceives a stop sign? Now, an immune-inspired defense system for neural networks can ward off such attacks, ...
Mar 24, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Toward speech recognition for uncommon spoken languages
Automated speech-recognition technology has become more common with the popularity of virtual assistants like Siri, but many of these systems only perform well with the most widely spoken of the world's roughly 7,000 languages.
Nov 4, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Researchers use dynamical systems and machine learning to add spontaneity to AI
Autonomous functions for robots, such as spontaneity, are highly sought after. Many control mechanisms for autonomous robots are inspired by the functions of animals, including humans. Roboticists often design robot behaviors ...
Nov 11, 2020
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Other
Cascade effects, not mechanical failures, more often responsible for poor performance in London commuter trains
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. has found that cascade effects are more to blame for poor performance by London's commuter train system than are mechanical failures. In their paper published ...
Computer Sciences
CLEANN: A framework to shield embedded neural networks from online Trojan attacks
With artificial intelligence (AI) tools and machine learning algorithms now making their way into a wide variety of settings, assessing their security and ensuring that they are protected against cyberattacks is of utmost ...
Computer Sciences
New math model could help with systematic predictions like potential coronavirus mutations
Could a mathematical model help predict future mutations of the coronavirus and guide scientists' research as they rush to develop an effective vaccine? This is a possibility being considered by researchers at the USC Viterbi ...
Jul 3, 2020
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Experimental brain-like computing system more accurate with custom algorithm
An experimental computing system physically modeled after the biological brain has "learned" to identify handwritten numbers with an overall accuracy of 93.4%. The key innovation in the experiment was a new training algorithm ...
Nov 14, 2023
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Hardware
Examining what it's going to take to get real scalability for chip-based decision-making
The case for building Scalable Neuromorphic Networks is this: like humans, smarter chips have a larger, tighter neural network. Indeed, neural networks are the current state-of-the-art for machine learning. This isn't robotics, ...
Mar 31, 2023
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