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Posted by Ruofei Du, Research Scientist, and Alex Olwal, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Augmented Reality Recent advances in video conferencing have significantly improved remote video communication through features like live captioning and noise cancellation. However, there are various situations where dynamic visual augmentation would be useful to better convey complex and nuanced information. For …

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PyTorch is a machine learning (ML) framework that is widely used by AWS customers for a variety of applications, such as computer vision, natural language processing, content creation, and more. With the recent PyTorch 2.0 release, AWS customers can now do same things as they could with PyTorch 1.x but faster and at scale with …

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As a marine biology student, Josef Melchner always dreamed of spending his days cruising the oceans to find dolphins, whales and fish — but also “wanted to do something practical, something that would benefit the world,” he said. When it came time to choose a career, he dove head first into aquaculture. He’s now CEO …

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Consumer expectations are evolving, and running a successful eCommerce business demands a lot more than it did a few years ago. Customers are more informed and want a fast, seamless, and smart user interface. To deliver on these new customer demands, eCommerce brands are using AI-driven processes to deliver personalized experiences. And Conversational AI with …

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by Akshay Garg, Roger Quero Introduction Maximizing immersion for our members is an important goal for the Netflix product and engineering teams to keep our members entertained and fully engaged in our content. Leveraging a good mix of mature and cutting-edge client device technologies to deliver a smooth playback experience with glitch-free in-app transitions is an …

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Data is the foundation for machine learning (ML) algorithms. One of the most common formats for storing large amounts of data is Apache Parquet due to its compact and highly efficient format. This means that business analysts who want to extract insights from the large volumes of data in their data warehouse must frequently use …

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Manual document classification and extraction is still a time-consuming and difficult task for many organizations. This blog series aims to demonstrate how Google Cloud products like Document AI and BigQuery can be used together to help organizations eliminate manual document processing. In the first part of this blog series, we discussed how to digitize grocery …

Read more “From Receipts to Riches: Save Money w/ Google Cloud & Supermarket Bills – Part 2”