Computer Vision News - April 2019

Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, SRI International (SRI) is a non-profit research institute that conducts research and develops innovations for government and industry. SRI’s mission statement is focused on technology innovation and it has many years of innovation including interactive computing and medical ultrasounds to cancer drugs and beyond. SRI’s team of over 2,100 scientists, engineers, technologists, and policy researchers from over 20 countries work together to create world-changing technology. Advanced computer scientists, Aswin Nadamuni Raghavan and Jesse Hostetler , both work as a part of the Center for Vision Technology group at the SRI, located in Princeton, New Jersey. They focus on developing a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) system that relies on continuous learning to become better and more dependable at performing new tasks. The team at SRI supports a number of projects from commercial and government agencies, including DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) . Aswin’s work covers various fundamental research problems mostly related to deep learning. He explores problems that deep learning cannot yet solve as well as how to make deep learning networks be smaller and operate faster to function on edge 24 Application Computer Vision News Application Aswin Nadamuni Raghavan Jesse Hostetler “Reduce the forgetting problem and allow for forward transfer, which means taking knowledge from earlier tasks and using that knowledge to help solve later tasks or tasks that the program hasn’t learned yet”