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Neural network method for enhancing electron microscope images
Texas A&M
28 Aug 2020
Left and right images show false-colored electron microscopic images of the same region on the specimen. The image on the right has been super-resolved using an image processing method. | Image: Profe...
New AI research institutes announced in USA
Lucy Smith
27 Aug 2020
Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) announced investment to establish seven new artificial...
Congratulations to the #ICML2020 outstanding paper award winners
Lucy Smith
15 Jul 2020
The ICML Outstanding Paper awards are given to papers from the current conference that are strong representatives of solid theoretical and empirical work in the field. This year the awards were announ...
ICML 2020 Test of Time award
Lucy Smith
13 Jul 2020
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Test of Time award is given to a paper from ICML ten years ago that has had significant impact. This year the award goes to Niranjan Srinivas, ...
Energy-saving designs for data-intensive computer processing
Rice University
06 Jul 2020
By Jade Boyd
Researchers have demonstrated methods for both designing innovative data-centric computing hardware and co-designing hardware with machine-learning algorithms that together could impro...
Virtual humanoid RoboCup workshops
Lucy Smith
03 Jul 2020
The 24th edition of RoboCup, due to take place in Bordeaux in late June, has been postponed until 2021. Obviously an event which centres on soccer matches between opposing teams of robots is something...
ACM statement on facial recognition technology
AIhub
01 Jul 2020
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USTPC) released a statement on 30 June calling for "an immediate suspension of the current and future private and govern...
Learning for dynamics and control conference
Lucy Smith
29 Jun 2020
The second conference on learning for dynamics and control (L4DC) was held on 11-12 June. In their introduction to the conference, the organisers write that "over the next decade, the biggest generato...
Context-aware sentence retrieval method reduces ‘communication gap’ for nonverbal people
University of Cambridge
23 Jun 2020
Researchers have used artificial intelligence to reduce the ‘communication gap’ for nonverbal people with motor disabilities who rely on computers to converse with others.
The team, from the Un...
ICRA workshops on robotics and learning
Lucy Smith
22 Jun 2020
This year the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is being run as a virtual event. One interesting feature of this conference is that it has been extended to run from 31 May to...
CLAIRE endorses EU plan for AI and makes 10 key recommendations
Lucy Smith
19 Jun 2020
In February this year, the European Commission released a white paper entitled: On Artificial Intelligence – A European approach to excellence and trust. With the public consultation phase on this d...
Can machine learning learn new physics?
Lucy Smith
18 Jun 2020
Can machine learning learn new physics - or do we have to put it in by hand? A workshop organised by Ilya Nemenman (Emory University), and featuring a number of experts in the field, aimed to find ou...
AI for good – global summit 2020
Lucy Smith
12 Jun 2020
The 2020 edition of the United Nations AI for Good Global Summit is in full swing and this year takes the form of a continuous virtual event. It features weekly programming across multiple formats, p...
Finding unique drug structures with artificial intelligence and chemistry
Universiteit Leiden
04 Jun 2020
Dihydroxyacetone Kinase. Credit: Wikipedia Commons. Reproduced under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
By Bryce Benda
In the search for new medicines for diseases such as cancer, a Leiden team has developed...
A deep learning framework for analysis of astronomical images
Lucy Smith
29 May 2020
Researchers have developed a model for generating pixel-level morphological classifications of astronomical sources. Morpheus can analyze astronomical image data pixel-by-pixel to identify and classif...
How speech recognition techniques are helping to predict volcanoes’ behaviour
Horizon
27 May 2020
By Sarah Wild
Dr Luciano Zuccarello grew up in the shadow of Mount Etna, an active volcano on the Italian island of Sicily. Farms and orchards ring the lower slopes of the volcano, where the fertil...
Using machine learning to identify different types of brain injuries
University of Cambridge
25 May 2020
Qualitative results for five different cases from the test set. The top row shows the image slice, the second row shows the ground-truth segmentation, and the bottom row shows the predicted segmentat...
Q&A: research into sound-collecting app to aid respiratory disease diagnosis
Horizon
18 May 2020
Professor Cecilia Mascolo at the University of Cambridge, UK, hopes her coronavirus sounds app could provide the data needed to build a quick and cheap Covid-19 screening test in the future. Image cre...
US office the latest to deny patents where AI system listed as inventor
Lucy Smith
04 May 2020
Last summer it was reported that patents had been filed in the USA and Europe listing an artificial intelligence system as the inventor. The patents in question were for a food container and a warnin...
AI techniques used to improve battery health and safety
University of Cambridge
30 Apr 2020
Researchers have developed a machine learning method that can predict battery health with ten times higher accuracy than current industry standard, which could aid in the development of safer and more...
Deep learning could help medical professionals diagnose skin diseases
Lucy Smith
29 Apr 2020
Researchers in Korea have developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture capable of aiding specialists in the diagnosis of 134 skin disorders. Their algorithm can also predict treatment o...
AI Song Contest
Lucy Smith
24 Apr 2020
The 2020 Eurovision Song Contest may have been cancelled, but fans of formulaic pop can still get their fill courtesy of the VPRO AI Song Contest. The contestants and their entries were revealed on 1...
AIhub Ambassador programme – call for volunteers
AIhub
22 Apr 2020
Are you a PhD student or researcher with an interest in science communication? We are recruiting AIhub Ambassadors to help us write about the latest news, research, conferences, and more, in the fiel...
Machine learning technique helps wearable devices get better at diagnosing sleep disorders and quality
Allie McFadden and Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech
21 Apr 2020
Getting diagnosed with a sleep disorder or assessing quality of sleep is an often expensive and tricky proposition, involving sleep clinics where patients are hooked up to sensors and wires for monito...
Researchers use neural networks to shed light on hidden order problem
Lucy Smith
17 Apr 2020
Two samples of URu2Si2
In 1985 researchers at the University of Leiden published a paper describing the phase transitions of the heavy fermion alloy uranium ruthenium silicide (URu2Si2). That work ...
AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity
Lucy Smith
14 Apr 2020
The AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity is a new prize, to be awarded for the first time at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (A...
Will AI write the scientific papers of the future? – Yolanda Gil’s presidential address at #AAAI20
Lucy Smith
06 Apr 2020
Professor Yolanda Gil, AAAI President
The Presidential Address at the AAAI conferences is always a much-anticipated event with the new President giving their take on an aspect of the field of artif...
The Age of A.I. YouTube series
Lucy Smith
27 Mar 2020
The YouTube originals series “The Age of A.I.” was released in December 2019. If you haven’t already seen it now could be a good time to catch up - with much of the world in enforced or voluntar...
COVID-19 resource page for AI researchers
AIhub
24 Mar 2020
Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by NIAID-RML. CC-BY-2.0.
Machine learning techniques are already playing a key role in assisting research into COVID-19. Here we provide a living document where we wil...
Integrating human behaviour into AI systems
University of New South Wales
23 Mar 2020
Human-machine interaction at UNSW
By Lachlan Gilbert
One of the holy grails in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is giving machines the ability to predict intent when interacting wit...
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) now available for researchers
Lucy Smith
17 Mar 2020
On 16 March the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) was released. This comprises an open-source, machine-readable collection of scholarly literature covering COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Corona...
An AI computer lab using medical images from SCAPIS
Linköping University
11 Mar 2020
By Karin Söderlund Leifler
Scientists plan to use the same technology as that used to create deepfake videos to build AI-generated medical images. The synthesised images will present data from the...
USA releases American AI initiative annual report
Lucy Smith
03 Mar 2020
On 26 February 2020 the White House published its first annual report on the American artificial intelligence initiative. This national initiative was launched on 11 February 2019 with the aim of crea...
#AAAI20 Turing Award session: Bengio, Hinton and LeCun talk about their research
Lucy Smith
26 Feb 2020
One of the highlights of the AAAI-20 conference this month was the special event featuring Turing Award winners, Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal and Mila), Geoffrey E. Hinton (Google, The Vector...
European Commission releases white paper on artificial intelligence
Lucy Smith
21 Feb 2020
On Wednesday 19th February the European Commission released a white paper entitled: On Artificial Intelligence - A European approach to excellence and trust. This document forms part of the EU's digit...
2020-2021 Leshner fellows to engage public on artificial intelligence
Lucy Smith
18 Feb 2020
Images courtesy of those pictured and AAAS
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the selection of 12 researchers in the area of artificial intelligence as the...
