It is almost the end of the year 2016 and this year I learned an important reason why the field of Artificial Intelligence is taking off. Yes, we now have access to huge amounts of data. Massive ...
Image Recognition and Object Detection : Part 1
This is a multipart post on image recognition and object detection. In this part, we will briefly explain image recognition using traditional computer vision techniques. I refer to techniques that ...
Deep Learning Example using NVIDIA DIGITS 3 on EC2
In my previous post I provided step by step instructions on how to install NVIDIA DIGITS 3 on Amazon EC2. In this post, we are going to use an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that I have configured for ...
Facial Landmark Detection
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? -- Pablo Picasso If Picasso was alive today, he would have definitely added one more profession to that list -- a ...
Computer Vision for Predicting Facial Attractiveness
Most of us have looked in the mirror and wondered how good we look. But, it is often difficult to be objective while judging our own attractiveness, and we are often too embarrassed to ask for ...
Baidu banned from ILSVRC 2015
I met Dr. Ren Wu a day after his team at Baidu announced a spectacular result on ImageNet's LSVRC 2015 challenge beating Google and Microsoft by a rather large margin. I was attending the Embedded ...