World-Class: NVIDIA Research Builds AI Model to Populate Virtual Worlds With 3D Objects, Characters

The massive virtual worlds created by growing numbers of companies and creators could be more easily populated with a diverse array of 3D buildings, vehicles, characters and more — thanks to a new AI model from NVIDIA Research. Trained using only 2D images, NVIDIA GET3D generates 3D shapes with high-fidelity textures and complex geometric details. …

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TensorStore for High-Performance, Scalable Array Storage

Posted by Jeremy Maitin-Shepard and Laramie Leavitt, Software Engineers, Connectomics at Google Many exciting contemporary applications of computer science and machine learning (ML) manipulate multidimensional datasets that span a single large coordinate system, for example, weather modeling from atmospheric measurements over a spatial grid or medical imaging predictions from multi-channel image intensity values in a …

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Detect population variance of endangered species using Amazon Rekognition

Our planet faces a global extinction crisis. UN Report shows a staggering number of more than a million species feared to be on the path of extinction. The most common reasons for extinction include loss of habitat, poaching, and invasive species. Several wildlife conservation foundations, research scientists, volunteers, and anti-poaching rangers have been working tirelessly …

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How Amazon Search reduced ML inference costs by 85% with AWS Inferentia

Amazon’s product search engine indexes billions of products, serves hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, and is one of the most heavily used services in the world. The Amazon Search team develops machine learning (ML) technology that powers the Amazon.com search engine and helps customers search effortlessly. To deliver a great customer experience and operate …

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What’s New with Google’s Unified, Open and Intelligent Data Cloud

We’re fortunate to work with some of the world’s most innovative customers on a daily basis, many of whom come to Google Cloud for our well-established expertise in data analytics and AI. As we’ve worked and partnered with these data leaders, we have encountered similar priorities among many of them: to remove the barriers of …

Providing Insights for Open-Response Surveys via End-to-End Context-Aware Clustering

Teachers often conduct surveys in order to collect data from a predefined group of students to gain insights into topics of interest. When analyzing surveys with open-ended textual responses, it is extremely time-consuming, labor-intensive, and difficult to manually process all the responses into an insightful and comprehensive report. In the analysis step, traditionally, the teacher …

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Introducing Whisper

We’ve trained and are open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition. Read Paper View Code View Model Card Whisper examples: Reveal Transcript Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web. We …

Moving beyond spreadsheets with IBM Planning Analytics

My journey with IBM Planning Analytics started with an early morning phone call to tell me that a member of my team had died, suddenly and unexpectedly. Not only was his loss a personal tragedy, it was a tragedy for the whole organization. Our teams relied heavily on his decades of expertise to help us …

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View Synthesis with Transformers

Posted by Carlos Esteves and Ameesh Makadia, Research Scientists, Google Research A long-standing problem in the intersection of computer vision and computer graphics, view synthesis is the task of creating new views of a scene from multiple pictures of that scene. This has received increased attention [1, 2, 3] since the introduction of neural radiance …

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Amazon Comprehend Targeted Sentiment adds synchronous support

Earlier this year, Amazon Comprehend, a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to discover insights from text, launched the Targeted Sentiment feature. With Targeted Sentiment, you can identify groups of mentions (co-reference groups) corresponding to a single real-world entity or attribute, provide the sentiment associated with each entity mention, and offer …