News: computer vision
AI fast-track for development of water saving plants
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A new AI tool is helping scientists quickly identify crop plants that are more drought tolerant.
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New computer vision technology for safer public transport facilities
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The worry of unattended luggage at an airport terminal or train station might soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new project that will see AI used to identify when objects are left behind at busy public transport locations.
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Award winning space AI
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AIML PhD candidate Sofia McLeod is researching ways to build an AI system that can safely land an autonomous spacecraft on a distant planetary or asteroid surface guided by visual input from a single event camera.
What are the latest developments in AI?
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AI offers us unprecedented opportunities to crack old nuts with new tools—that is, to apply new technologies to solve some of the fundamental problems affecting society.
New AI tech to bring human-like understanding of our 3D world
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Humans can easily understand the 3D world, why is it so hard for computers?
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Podium finish in global AI race contest
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An AIML team has scored double pole positions in a global virtual motor racing event that saw hundreds of AI researchers and engineers compete to build high performance virtual race cars.
Australian AI experts head to New Orleans for the latest in computer vision
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Thousands of the world’s top artificial intelligence (AI) experts will travel to New Orleans, La., next week for the leading conference on computer vision; among them, researchers from the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) presenting 23 papers at the forefront of new research in the field.
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Meet the amazing women training AI machines
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For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, meet some of the women at AIML who are building great new things and leading the way in cutting-edge machine learning technology.
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‘Set and forget’ machine learning delivers NASA prize-winning space innovation
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If you send a robot to the Moon, you’ve got to be sure it can do its job without constant human supervision.
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AIML PhD student awarded 2021 Google PhD Fellowship
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AIML PhD student Xinlong Wang has been awarded the 2021 Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision.
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