Machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, artificial intelligence. You can’t work a day in tech without coming across one of these buzzwords.
For a developer just looking to get started, it’s hard to wade through the jargon and ever-changing tools. This post is the first in a broader series we’re working on at Heartbeat on to help people get up to speed or stay current.
I recently came across an excellent article from Signal where they introduced a new feature that gives users the ability to automatically blur faces—incredibly useful in a time when protestors and demonstrators need to communicate while protecting their identities.
In the article, Signal also hinted at technologies they’re using, which are strictly platform-level libraries. For iOS, I would guess they have used Vision , an API made by Apple to perform a variety of image and video processing.
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For developers, the ability to run pre-trained models on mobile signifies an important shift towards edge computing. By being able to perform data processing straight from the user’s phone, private data remains in their hands, apps run more smoothly without having to wait for cellular networks, and your company’s cloud bill is significantly reduced.
Fast, responsive apps can now run complex machine learning models. This technological shift will usher in a new wave of app development by empowering product owners and engineers to think outside the box.
In this tutorial, we’ll build a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) in PyTorch that will classify people’s names by their languages. We assume that the reader has a basic understanding of PyTorch and machine learning in Python.
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Lens Studio can gives one the ability to create some truly amazing augmented reality effects for Snapchat. I’ve found the performance and speed with which these lenses display to be very smooth, and this is due in part to the strict requirements that Snapchat has for the quality of submitted lenses.
However, this performance comes with a price. One of the most challenging things any lens creator faces is fitting everything into the 4mb of space that is allowed.
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This is the second part in a two-part series. I suggest you read the first part first. Interact with the app via the App link
The goal of the second part of this tutorial series is to deploy the machine learning wine quality prediction web application built in part 1—this time in the cloud.
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The joy derived from having artificial intelligence models in production can’t be quantified, especially when users start interacting with the technology. AI products are the end result of iterative processes throughout a larger data science lifecycle.
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About a year and a half ago, I wrote a blog post titled “What Is Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Is It Needed?” In the post, I discussed how transparent and explainable the decision-making process of humans is.
On the other hand, I gave examples of the balance between the performance of AI applications and the decrease in explainability.
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With advances in camera quality, image fidelity, and neural network research focused on solving image- and video-based challenges, computer vision continues to capture the attention and imaginations of machine learning researchers and practitioners.
But computer vision is an incredibly broad umbrella term that encompasses an array of specific tasks and challenges, and the field continues to expand.
Continue reading “Machine Learning for Computer Vision: Foundations and Use Cases”
Splash screens are as old as mobile phones themselves, as you can see from this picture of an old school Nokia phone:
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