center point-based approach, CenterNet, is end-to-end differentiable, simpler, faster, and more accurate than corresponding bounding box based detectors. Center- Net achieves the best speed-accuracy trade-off on the MS COCO dataset, with 28.1% AP at 142 FPS, 37.4% AP at 52 FPS, and 45.1% AP with multi-scale testing at 1.4 FPS.
Slide for study session given by Christian Saravia at Arithmer inc.
It is a summary of recent method for object detection, centernet.
Arithmer株式会社は東京大学大学院数理科学研究科発の数学の会社です。私達は現代数学を応用して、様々な分野のソリューションに、新しい高度AIシステムを導入しています。AIをいかに上手に使って仕事を効率化するか、そして人々の役に立つ結果を生み出すのか、それを考えるのが私たちの仕事です。
Arithmer began at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences. Today, our research of modern mathematics and AI systems has the capability of providing solutions when dealing with tough complex issues. At Arithmer we believe it is our job to realize the functions of AI through improving work efficiency and producing more useful results for society.
Object detection is an important computer vision technique with applications in several domains such as autonomous driving, personal and industrial robotics. The below slides cover the history of object detection from before deep learning until recent research. The slides aim to cover the history and future directions of object detection, as well as some guidelines for how to choose which type of object detector to use for your own project.
Slides from the UPC reading group on computer vision about the following paper:
Redmon, Joseph, Santosh Divvala, Ross Girshick, and Ali Farhadi. "You only look once: Unified, real-time object detection." arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02640 (2015).
This is a presentation on the Yolo(You Only Look Once) object detection system. This is a state-of-the-art system that is works very fast. The presentation has been derived from the paper cited below
@article{yolov3,
title={YOLOv3: An Incremental Improvement},
author={Redmon, Joseph and Farhadi, Ali},
journal = {arXiv},
year={2018}
}
Slide for study session given by Christian Saravia at Arithmer inc.
It is a summary of recent method for object detection, centernet.
Arithmer株式会社は東京大学大学院数理科学研究科発の数学の会社です。私達は現代数学を応用して、様々な分野のソリューションに、新しい高度AIシステムを導入しています。AIをいかに上手に使って仕事を効率化するか、そして人々の役に立つ結果を生み出すのか、それを考えるのが私たちの仕事です。
Arithmer began at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences. Today, our research of modern mathematics and AI systems has the capability of providing solutions when dealing with tough complex issues. At Arithmer we believe it is our job to realize the functions of AI through improving work efficiency and producing more useful results for society.
Object detection is an important computer vision technique with applications in several domains such as autonomous driving, personal and industrial robotics. The below slides cover the history of object detection from before deep learning until recent research. The slides aim to cover the history and future directions of object detection, as well as some guidelines for how to choose which type of object detector to use for your own project.
Slides from the UPC reading group on computer vision about the following paper:
Redmon, Joseph, Santosh Divvala, Ross Girshick, and Ali Farhadi. "You only look once: Unified, real-time object detection." arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02640 (2015).
This is a presentation on the Yolo(You Only Look Once) object detection system. This is a state-of-the-art system that is works very fast. The presentation has been derived from the paper cited below
@article{yolov3,
title={YOLOv3: An Incremental Improvement},
author={Redmon, Joseph and Farhadi, Ali},
journal = {arXiv},
year={2018}
}
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object DetectionDADAJONJURAKUZIEV
YOLO, a new approach to object detection. A single neural network predicts bounding boxes and class probabilities directly from full images in one evaluation.
http://imatge-upc.github.io/telecombcn-2016-dlcv/
Deep learning technologies are at the core of the current revolution in artificial intelligence for multimedia data analysis. The convergence of big annotated data and affordable GPU hardware has allowed the training of neural networks for data analysis tasks which had been addressed until now with hand-crafted features. Architectures such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks and Q-nets for reinforcement learning have shaped a brand new scenario in signal processing. This course will cover the basic principles and applications of deep learning to computer vision problems, such as image classification, object detection or text captioning.
Object detection is a computer technology related to computer vision and image processing that deals with detecting instances of semantic objects of a certain class (such as humans, buildings, or cars) in digital images and videos. Well-researched domains of object detection include face detection and pedestrian detection. Object detection has applications in many areas of computer vision, including image retrieval and video surveillance.
Machine learning (ML) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows software applications to become more accurate at predicting outcomes without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms use historical data as input to predict new output values.
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object DetectionDADAJONJURAKUZIEV
YOLO, a new approach to object detection. A single neural network predicts bounding boxes and class probabilities directly from full images in one evaluation.
http://imatge-upc.github.io/telecombcn-2016-dlcv/
Deep learning technologies are at the core of the current revolution in artificial intelligence for multimedia data analysis. The convergence of big annotated data and affordable GPU hardware has allowed the training of neural networks for data analysis tasks which had been addressed until now with hand-crafted features. Architectures such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks and Q-nets for reinforcement learning have shaped a brand new scenario in signal processing. This course will cover the basic principles and applications of deep learning to computer vision problems, such as image classification, object detection or text captioning.
Object detection is a computer technology related to computer vision and image processing that deals with detecting instances of semantic objects of a certain class (such as humans, buildings, or cars) in digital images and videos. Well-researched domains of object detection include face detection and pedestrian detection. Object detection has applications in many areas of computer vision, including image retrieval and video surveillance.
Machine learning (ML) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows software applications to become more accurate at predicting outcomes without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms use historical data as input to predict new output values.
Presented at the 2011 IEEE 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2011), August 26th, 2011 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Publication: http://bit.ly/x1OpFL
Abstract:
In this paper we introduce a system for semantic understanding of traffic scenes. The system detects objects in video images captured in real vehicular traffic situations, classifies them, maps them to the OpenCyc1 ontology and finally generates descriptions of the traffic scene in CycL or cvasi-natural language. We employ meta-classification methods based on AdaBoost and Random forest algorithms for identifying interest objects like: cars, pedestrians, poles in traffic and we derive a set of annotations for each traffic scene. These annotations are mapped to OpenCyc concepts and predicates, spatiotemporal rules for object classification and scene understanding are then asserted in the knowledge base. Finally, we show that the system performs well in understanding traffic scene situations and summarizing them. The novelty of the approach resides in the combination of stereo-based object detection and recognition methods with logic based spatio-temporal reasoning.
These slides provide an overview of the most popular approaches up to date to solve the task of object detection with deep neural networks. It reviews both the two stages approaches such as R-CNN, Fast R-CNN and Faster R-CNN, and one-stage approaches such as YOLO and SSD. It also contains pointers to relevant datasets (Pascal, COCO, ILSRVC, OpenImages) and the definition of the Average Precision (AP) metric.
Full program:
https://www.talent.upc.edu/ing/estudis/formacio/curs/310400/postgraduate-course-artificial-intelligence-deep-learning/
Continuous Evaluation of Deployed Models in Production Many high-tech industr...Databricks
Many high-tech industries rely on machine-learning systems in production environments to automatically classify and respond to vast amounts of incoming data. Despite their critical roles, these systems are often not actively monitored. When a problem first arises, it may go unnoticed for some time. Once it is noticed, investigating its underlying cause is a time-consuming, manual process. Wouldn’t it be great if the model’s output were automatically monitored? If they could be visualized, sliced by different dimensions? If the system could automatically detect performance degradation and trigger alerts? In this presentation, we describe our experience from building such a core machine-learning services: Model Evaluation.
Our service provides automated, continuous evaluation of the performance of a deployed model over commonly-used metrics like the area-under-the-curve (AUC), root-mean-square-error (RMSE) etc. In addition, summary statistics about the model’s output, their distributions are also computed. The service also provides a dashboard to visualize the performance metrics, summary statistics and distributions of a model over time along with REST APIs to retrieve these metrics programmatically.
These metrics can be sliced by input features (e.g. Geography, Product type) to provide insights into model performance over different segments. The talk will describe various components that are required in building such a service and metrics of interest. Our system has a backend component built with spark on Azure Databricks. The backend can scale to analyze TBs of data to generate model evaluation metrics.
We will talk about how we modified Spark MLLib for computing AUC sliced by different dimensions and other optimizations in Spark to improve compute and performance. Our front-end and middle-tier, built with Docker and Azure Webapp provides visuals and REST APIs to retrieve the above metrics. This talk will cover various aspects of building, deploying and using the above system.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered Quality
Objects as points
1. K U L A
Objects as Points
by Xingyi Zhou, D equan Wang and
Philipp Kr ähenbühl
Jurakuziev Dadajon
R eal - time Objec t detec tion
Objectsaspoints
2. K U L A
02
1. Computer Vision Tasks
2. Applications of Object Detection
3. Why Real-Time Object Detection?
4. Introduction to Objects as Points
5. Understanding the Architecture of Objects as Points
6. Performance
7. Conclusion
Agenda
Objectsaspoints
4. K U L A
Applications of Object Detection
01 Self-driving Cars Face Recognition
03 Action Recognition 04 Object Counting
02
Objectsaspoints
5. K U L A
Why Real-time Object Detection?
The model should be able to detect objects and make inferences within
microseconds.
Objectsaspoints
6. K U L A
Objects as Points or CenterNet
Objectsaspoints
7. K U L A
Objects as Points
To model an object as a single point — the center point of its bounding box.
The detector uses keypoint estimation to find center points and regresses to all other object
properties, such as size, 3D location, orientation, and even pose.
The center point based approach, CenterNet, is end-to-end differentiable, simpler, faster, and
more accurate than corresponding bounding box based detectors.
Objectsaspoints
8. K U L A
Objects as Points
To model an object as a single point — the center point of its bounding box.
The detector uses keypoint estimation to find center points and regresses to all other object
properties, such as size, 3D location, orientation, and even pose.
The center point based approach, CenterNet, is end-to-end differentiable, simpler, faster, and
more accurate than corresponding bounding box based detectors.
Objectsaspoints
9. K U L A
Quick Explanation
Objectsaspoints
Bounding Box Keypoints
10. K U L A
Quick Explanation
Objectsaspoints
Bounding box based detectors : YOLO, RCNN
11. K U L A
Significance of Objects as Points
Objectsaspoints
• CenterNet's "anchor" only appears at the current
object's position instead of the entire picture, so
there is no such thing as a box overlap greater than
a positive anchor, and there is no need to
distinguish whether the anchor is an object or a
background.
• Each object has only one anchor, this anchor is
extracted from the keypoint estimation, so no
NMS is needed to filter.
12. K U L A
What is Keypoint Estimation?
Objectsaspoints
13. K U L A
What is Keypoint Estimation?
Objectsaspoints
14. K U L A
Architecture of CenterNet
Objectsaspoints
15. K U L A
What is Keypoint Estimation?
Objectsaspoints
From points to Bounding Boxes
- Extracts the peaks from each category from the heatmap
- Stores all intermediate values that are greater than or equal to
the eight surrounding pixels in the heatmap
- Leave behind 100 biggest peak values
16. K U L A
What is Keypoint Estimation?
Objectsaspoints
From points to Bounding Boxes
- The locations of the extracted peaks are expressed in integer
form (x, y).
- This allows to be shown the coordinates of the bounding box as
below
17. K U L A
What is Keypoint Estimation?
Objectsaspoints
18. K U L A
Objects as Points
Objectsaspoints
All of these outputs come from the Single Keypoint Estimations.
21. K U L A
Conclusion
Objectsaspoints
- A new representation for objects: as points
- This detector builds on successful keypoint estimation networks
- Finds object centers, and regresses to the size
- The algorithms is simple, fast, accurate
- End-to-end differentiable without any NMS post-processing
24. K U L A
COCO Dataset
- The COCO train, validation, and test sets, containing more than 200,000 images and 80 object
categories
- All object instances are annotated with a detailed segmentation mask. Annotations on the training
and validation sets (with over 500,000 object instances segmented) are publicly available.
