Computer vision
Teaching computers to see more sharply with processing in the cloud
A combination of new GPUs, more widely available cloud data centers, and large data sets is broadening use of computer vision in industry.
Teaching computers to see more sharply with processing in the cloud
At the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, scientists have trained a neural network to spot different types of breast cancer on a small data set of less than 1,000 images. Instead of educating the AI system to distinguish between groups of samples, the researchers taught the network to recognize the visual “tissue fingerprint” of tumors so that it could work on much larger, unannotated data sets.
Halfway across the country in suburban Chicago, Oracle’s construction and engineering group is working with video-camera and software companies to build an artificial intelligence system that can tell from live video feeds—with up to 92% accuracy—whether construction workers are wearing hard hats and protective vests and practicing social distancing.