What’s Next in Customer Data Management for Consumer Marketers?

Consumer marketers have weathered a whirlwind set of years. Challenging events such as COVID-19, economic doldrums, and the loss of data from third-party cookies have taken place hand-in-hand with the emergence of new opportunities from Generative AI and predictive analytics. Each is individually and collectively upending the traditional marketing playbook. That disruption is manifesting in …

How to Train a Object Detection Engine with HOG in OpenCV

In the previous post, you saw that OpenCV can extract features from an image using a technique called the Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG). In short, this is to convert a “patch” of an image into a numerical vector. This vector, if set up appropriately, can identify key features within that patch. While you can …

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Emerging practices for Society-Centered AI

Posted by Anoop Sinha, Research Director, Technology & Society, and Yossi Matias, Vice President, Google Research The first of Google’s AI Principles is to “Be socially beneficial.” As AI practitioners, we’re inspired by the transformative potential of AI technologies to benefit society and our shared environment at a scale and swiftness that wasn’t possible before. …