In recent years, various photo editing, beauty, and special effects applications have been well received by users. Recently, Douyin’s latest “transformation comics” special effects have become a hot search. What are the key technologies behind the explosion? Editor: Shen Jing Xiao Xi Content compiled from CSDN and Byte Fan (link attached at the end of the article) Recently, a “transformation comics” special effect on Douyin has become popular again.

Lyft recently released a Level 5 autonomous driving prediction dataset, which contains more than 1,000 hours of driving records. In addition, the company also launched an autonomous driving motion prediction challenge with a prize pool of $30,000. Lyft has released a new dataset. Last July, Ly […]

Erica, the AI robot created by Japanese robot godfather Hiroshi Ishiguro over many years, was selected by Hollywood to play the leading role in the sci-fi blockbuster "B". If the filming is successfully completed, it will become a major innovation in film history. Many Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters have robot characters, such as "I, Robot", "My...

Yesterday morning, Didi’s self-driving car was open to the public in Shanghai for a trial ride. Users can sign up for the experience on the Didi Chuxing App and truly experience the thrill of driverless driving. On June 27, Didi’s self-driving online car-hailing service was officially launched in Jiading District, Shanghai, and friends can take a free trial ride. Users only need to register on the […]

The latest order signed by the Trump administration prohibits the issuance of new H-1B and H-2B visas. The ban takes effect today and will last until the end of the year. What is the reason for this ban? What impact will it have? On June 22, local time, US President Trump signed an executive order, Proclama […]

In recent years, algorithms have played a role in all walks of life, and they are also quietly changing the construction industry. Artificial intelligence algorithms have brought more possibilities to designers, bringing us more amazing and reasonable designs. In the construction industry, there are always some architects who do not follow the usual path and design strange buildings that surprise people. Some architectural shapes […]

From the ban of the basic mathematical software Matlab by Harbin Institute of Technology and Harbin Engineering University, to the recent strict crackdown on piracy of ChemOffice in China, the scientific research path of domestic scholars has become increasingly difficult. Recently, some netizens reported that they had received a lawyer’s letter from ChemOffice, asking them to stop using pirated software. Some high-level […]

At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak in many countries around the world and the work-from-home situation of enterprises have accelerated the development of video conferencing software. Zoom is undoubtedly the most powerful and controversial one among them. Zoom said on Wednesday that it will provide end-to-end acceleration of video calls for all users in the beta version in July. […]

Facebook, which has been plagued by fake reviews and likes, recently sued a company that specializes in posting fake comments and likes. But this is only a small part of Facebook's crackdown on fake reviews in the past year or so. How much influence do comments on e-commerce and social platforms have? At the very least, they can affect personal judgment and lead to the purchase of fake goods; at the worst, they can manipulate public opinion.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon has been in turmoil, and has been repeatedly sued by employees for inadequate safety protection measures. To this end, Amazon has launched an AI distance assistant to remind everyone to keep their distance in real time. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Amazon has repeatedly been in the news for negative news, all due to inadequate safety protection measures. […]

The internet celebrity Boston Dynamics dog is now for sale! The price is clearly marked at $74,500 per dog, but it is currently only available to businesses, and can only buy two at a time. Dancing, somersaults, herding sheep, pulling rickshaws... the internet celebrity Boston Dynamics dog Spot, who can do everything and is everywhere, often appears on WeChat Moments. Now, this dog that was once "only far away" […]

What is it like to convert a "mosaic" pixel-level headshot into a high-definition photo? The AI algorithm proposed by Duke University can not only "remove mosaics", but also be as detailed as every wrinkle and every hair. Do you want to try it? In this era of pursuing high-definition image quality, our tolerance for poor image quality is getting lower and lower. […]

As one of the world's top three conferences in the field of computer vision, CVPR attracts many professionals every year. CVPR 2020 has attracted more than 10,000 submissions. Recently, the CVPR 2020 conference was held online, and nearly 30 tutorials have been released. Come and attend the conference online. […]

As major technology companies expressed their views on the racial equality movement, IBM was the first to announce its withdrawal from the facial recognition business. Soon after, Amazon also began to take sides, choosing the former between "political correctness" and profit, and announced that it would suspend the provision of facial recognition tools Rekognition to the police. As early as 2016, Amazon […]

Prosopagnosia is also known as "facial recognition disorder", which is generally manifested as the inability to see other people's faces clearly or the loss of the ability to recognize other people's faces. Recently, Microsoft's AI editor also suffered from prosopagnosia and failed to distinguish between Arabs and Africans. On May 28, Microsoft announced that it would lay off nearly 80 […]

Recently, the "Black Lives Matter" movement has spread to the technology circle, and many technology companies have also made statements on this matter. OpenAI recently announced a decision to invest $1 million to vigorously recruit black members to help achieve racial equality. Recently, the racial equality movement in the United States […]

Since the George Floyd incident, the Black Lives Matter movement for the rights of African Americans in the United States and around the world has intensified, expanding from offline marches to the technology circle. On May 26, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, […]

V2EX, a well-known technology and creative community, has been attacked by DDoS for three consecutive days. The attack sources come from IPs in more than 200 countries/regions, and the attack has not stopped yet. V2EX has been attacked by DDoS for three consecutive days, and it has not stopped yet. According to V2EX founder Livid […]

Argonne National Laboratory under the U.S. Department of Energy is developing technology to identify and monitor the interaction between birds and solar energy facilities. This project will have a positive impact on bird protection and the planning and layout of solar energy facilities. According to statistics, billions of birds die every year in the world, and nearly one billion of them are killed by collisions. […]

The Associated Press and Equilar recently counted the annual salaries of CEOs of most companies in the S&P 500, and sorted and analyzed them. Among them, AMD's Lisa Su topped the list with $58.5 million, becoming the first woman to top the list since the list was created. The Associated Press and the salary research organization […]

Robots will do more and more, including navigation, serving food, and performing talk shows. That’s not enough. Now, a bar in Seoul, South Korea has hired robots as bartenders. This is also a measure taken to ensure safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. A robot skillfully and calmly uses a knife and an ice pick to carve a perfect ice ball and then put it […]

The parameters of Russia's self-developed CPU were recently exposed. Although there is still a big gap compared to mainstream products, this is also a major progress in Russia's self-development. Although it is not easy to develop a CPU by yourself, in order to avoid being restrained by the United States, many countries have invested huge manpower and funds in this regard. The fighting nation Russia has also started from & […]

Recently, we found a unique bald portrait dataset in Kaggle’s dataset. The author compiled 200,000 bald portraits, totaling 1.3G in size. We have seen plant image datasets and celebrity face datasets, but have you seen one specifically for the classification and recognition of “bald people”? […]

ICML 2020 results are out, Google ranks first among global companies and institutions with 125 papers included. A total of 4,990 qualified submissions, and finally a total of 1,088 papers were included. On the evening of June 1, Beijing time, ICML 2020 (International Conference on Machine Learning I […]

Another fully automatic driverless subway is born! Following the Guangzhou APM, Beijing Yanfang Line and other subway lines that have achieved driverless operation, Wuhan has welcomed the city’s first driverless subway train, which will soon be put into use on Line 5. Nowadays, the term driverless is not unfamiliar to many people, but I am afraid that not many people have actually used it. […]

In the fourth chapter of the fourth section of the Personality Rights of the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China, which was just passed at the recent two sessions, the fourth chapter of the Portrait Rights clearly states the identification of infringements of the portrait, voice and other rights of others by means of information technology. On May 28, the Third Session of the 13th National People’s Congress voted to pass the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China […]

Since Harry Shum announced his departure from Microsoft in November last year, everyone has been paying close attention to the next move of this AI giant. After half a year, the answer was finally revealed: he chose the American version of Yidian Zixun "News Break". Harry Shum, former Microsoft global executive vice president and top expert in computer vision and graphics, finally changed his mind and moved to […]

Theft of electricity for mining has become popular in many places in recent years. Recently, another case of theft of electricity for mining was exposed in Daqing, Heilongjiang, and the case was covered by a "grave". It was really a painstaking effort to mine. 20 days after the third Bitcoin halving, the price of Bitcoin returned to $10,000 today, a recent high. Since 200 […]

Scholars at Oregon State University have been studying how to make robots master humor and learn to perform better in talk shows. To this end, the team has performed dozens of shows with the talk show robot Jon and summed up some tips for success. In our traditional impression, most robots have a cold metallic texture, even […]

A reporter from GamesBeat, a well-known American technology media, recently interviewed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the pandemic, autonomous driving, the development of the gaming industry, and Nvidia’s recent growth. VentureBeat is a well-known American […]