This talk was held by Rasmus Rothe at the Berlin Machine Learning Group at Rocket Internet on June 2, 2016. He presented the research behind howhot.io, some fun facts, how it became viral and how he intends to leverage the technology behind it to solve real-world problems with his new company, Merantix.
9. 100m+ evaluations to date
1m visitors in first
12hrs after launch
Spikes in usage due
to media attention
10. It’s more than a joke…
• Rasmus Rothe, Radu Timofte, and Luc Van Gool. "DEX: Deep
EXpectation of apparent age from a single image.”, ICCVW. 2015.
– Winner of LAP challenge on apparent age estimation (115 teams)
– NVIDIA ChaLearn LAP 2015 Best Paper Award
• Rasmus Rothe, Radu Timofte, and Luc Van Gool. "Some like it hot-
visual guidance for preference prediction.”, CVPR, 2016
• Rasmus Rothe, Radu Timofte, and Luc Van Gool. “Deep expectation
of real and apparent age from a single image without facial
landmarks”, in submission
• IMDB-WIKI dataset publicly available:
https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/cvl/rrothe/imdb-wiki/
13. Datasource # Photos Gender
(m/f)
Age
(23.4yrs)
Attractiveness
(top 23%)IMDb
500,000 x x
Wikipedia
60,000 x x
Blinq
120,000 x x x
1) Data to learn from
18. What led to winning the age estimation
challenge (115 teams)?
1. Deeper models (VGG-16)
2. Ensemble classification (20 models)
3. More training data (500k+ images)
5. Robust face alignment
6. Deep expectation layer
4. Augmentation
21. If we look closer …
1600out of 1900 of Germany’s biggest companies, are
B2B Industry Companies.
Source: Venohr, B., Fear, J., & Witt, A. (2015). "Best of German Mittelstand- The world market leaders.", Statista
V.S.
That’s what we are excellent at and lightyears ahead of Silicon Valley.
x8 turnover!
22. Merantix is an AI
Research Laband
a Company
Builderthat helps
industry companies to
leverage the power of AI.
Rethinking the
German core
strengths
ENGINEERING
23. Why focus on
B2B industries?
Industry
1
2
27
201
230
384
B2C Chatbots
Gaming
Medical Technology
Chemicals
Machinery & Equipment
Automotive
Consumer
Turner over in EUR in Germany - Sources: Germany Trade and Invest
24. Why applying generic
toolboxes is not enough
1. Dirty data
2. Industry specific knowledge
3. Combination of multiple data types
4. Robustness
5. Performance requirements
6. Understand failure
25. Cases
Patient Big Data
Lab Group, DE
eCommerce
Product Recom
Comp Builder, DE
Quality
Assurance
Chemicals, DE
Real Estate
Market Prediction
Insurer, CH
Technology
Scouting
Defense, CH
Bot
Communication
Wealth Manager, CH
Sepsis Diagnosis
Medtech, DE
Food Recogn
App
Telco, UK
26. Merantix GmbH
Friedrichstraße 68
DE-10117 Berlin
Managing Director: Rasmus Rothe
Registration No.: HRB 176845 B
Get in touch
Rasmus Rothe
rasmus@merantix.com
Adrian Locher
adrian@merantix.com