A simpler path to better computer vision

Research finds using a large collection of simple, un-curated synthetic image generation programs to pretrain a computer vision model for image classification yields greater accuracy than employing other pretraining methods that are more costly and time consuming, and less scalable.

A deep learning model that generates nonverbal social behavior for robots

Researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Korea have recently developed a deep learning-based model that could help to produce engaging nonverbal social behaviors, such as hugging or shaking someone’s hand, in robots. Their model, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, can actively learn new context-appropriate social behaviors by observing interactions …

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Managing and Automating Browser Extensions at Scale

Workstation Security Policies as Code In this blog post, Chad and Tyler from our Information Security (InfoSec) team discuss the evolution of Palantir’s approach to managing browser extensions across the enterprise and walk through how this low-friction process works today. Browser Extensions: an Ever-Evolving Threat Web browsers are the primary interface for many sensitive business tasks; they …

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How JPMorgan Chase & Co. uses AWS DeepRacer events to drive global cloud adoption

This is a guest post by Stephen Carrad, Vice President at JP Morgan Chase & Co. JPMorgan & Chase Co. started its cloud journey four years ago, building the integrations required to deploy cloud-native applications into the cloud in a resilient and secure manner. In the first year, three applications tentatively dipped their toes into …

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Apply fine-grained data access controls with AWS Lake Formation and Amazon EMR from Amazon SageMaker Studio

Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the ML workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. Studio comes with built-in integration with Amazon EMR so that data scientists can interactively prepare data at …

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AWS Cloud technology for near-real-time cardiac anomaly detection using data from wearable devices

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of death globally: more people die each year from CVDs than from any other cause. The COVID-19 pandemic made organizations change healthcare delivery to reduce staff contact with sick people and the overall pressure on the healthcare system. This technology enables organizations to deliver telehealth solutions, which …