Computer Vision News - April 2021

246 Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision News has found great new stories, written somewhere else by somebody else. We share them with you, adding a short comment. Enjoy! A I S P O T L I G H T N E W S Pervasive Label Errors in Test Sets Destabilize Machine Learning Benchmarks Yes, you are right, the object in the image is not a coffeemaker . It is most probably a teapot. Researchers at MIT have found that popular test sets in machine learning are NOT immune to labeling errors. They made an analysis of 10 test sets from datasets used to train countless computer vision algorithms (including ImageNet ) and compared that to their guess at what the correct label might be and to the consensus label among 5 mechanical Turk human raters. They estimate an average of 3.4% errors across the 10 datasets, where for example 2916 label errors comprise 6% of the ImageNet validation set . Here are their blog post and paper . Read More Smart Safe Keeping: Blending Artificial Intelligence with Sea Turtle Conservation Princess Aliyah Pandolfi says that “AI has advanced exponentially while drone development has expanded to many conservation studies” and she knows because she is the Executive Director of Kashmir World Foundation (KwF) and what she does there is worth of a Princess: she created the Fly for Conservation workshop to educate researchers and biologists on the value of custom drones embedded with AI on the edge. That scientific team builds, programs, and operates drones to fly over the Yucatan Peninsula and survey sea turtles and find patterns with a powerful CNN. By the way, the diver posing with that friendly sea turtle is truly yours, in Hawaii! Read More Watch the winners of this year’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest Let’s dance! This is really fun: not-your-typical nerds have joined Scienc e’s annual “ Dance Your PhD ” contest. If you didn’t know that yet, it’s 14 years that this goes on and the teams invest much effort in their dances. The overall winners (but not only them) wanted “to show nonscientific muggles that science can be fun, silly, and exciting”. By doing that, they beat out 39 competitors for $2000 - and eternal geek fame . The level of the productions is amazing! Our favorite is the winner of the Biology category “ Fragmentation of plastics ”. Which one is your favorite? To all participants: congrats, doctors! Read More