San Francisco startup Clockwork recently launched a pop-up location offering the first robot nail painting service in the form of 10-minute “minicures.” The robot uses structured-light 3D scanners to detect the shape of a customer’s fingernails — with AI models directing a plastic-tipped cartridge that paints nails one at a time. Appointments don’t yet include other manicure services such as…
]]>Astrophysics researchers have long faced a tradeoff when simulating space— simulations could be either high-resolution or cover a large swath of the universe. With the help of generative adversarial networks, they can accomplish both at once. Carnegie Mellon University and University of California researchers developed a deep learning model that upgrades cosmological simulations from low to high…
]]>In a major earthquake, even a few seconds of advance warning can help people prepare — so Stanford University researchers have turned to deep learning to predict strong shaking and issue early alerts. DeepShake, a spatiotemporal neural network trained on seismic recordings from around 30,000 earthquakes, analyzes seismic signals in real time. By observing the earliest detected waves from an…
]]>Researchers from the Netherlands’ University of Groningen have used AI to reveal that the Great Isaiah Scroll — the only entirely preserved volume from the original Dead Sea Scrolls — was likely copied by two scribes who wrote in a similar style. While most scholars long believed the Isaiah Scroll’s 17 sheets of parchment were copied by a single scribe around the second century BCE…
]]>BMW today unveiled a virtual art installation that projects AI-generated artwork onto a virtual rendition of the automaker’s 8 Series Gran Coupe. Dubbed “The Ultimate AI Masterpiece,” the installation harnessed NVIDIA StyleGAN — a generative model for high-resolution images — to create original artwork projection-mapped onto the virtual vehicle. The project debuts in conjunction with the…
]]>A recent National Poetry Month feature in The Washington Post presented AI-generated artwork alongside five original poems reflecting on seasons of the past year. Created by the Lede Lab — an experimental news team at The Post dedicated to exploring emerging technologies and new storytelling techniques — the artwork combined the output of machine learning models including NVIDIA StyleGAN2.
]]>Switzerland-based Assaia International AG, an NVIDIA Metropolis partner and member of the NVIDIA Inception acceleration platform for AI startups, is deploying a deep learning solution at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) to help airport employees monitor the turnaround time between flights. The Turnaround Control tool will help the airport work with its airline partners…
]]>It’s not just gourmet chefs who can discover new flavor combinations— a new ingredient mapping tool by Sony AI and Korea University uses molecular science and recipe data to predict how two ingredients will pair together and suggest new mash-ups. Dubbed FlavorGraph, the graph embedding model was trained on a million recipes and chemical structure data from more than 1,500 flavor molecules.
]]>University of Pennsylvania researchers have used convolutional neural networks to catalog the morphology of 27 million galaxies, giving astronomers a massive dataset for studying the evolution of the universe. “Galaxy morphology is one of the key aspects of galaxy evolution,” said study author Helena Domínguez Sánchez, former postdoc at Penn. “The shape and structure of galaxies has a lot of…
]]>To support its efforts to become climate neutral by 2050, the European Union has launched a Destination Earth initiative to build a detailed digital simulation of the planet that will help scientists map climate development and extreme weather events with high accuracy. The decade-long project will create a digital twin of the Earth, rendered at one-kilometer scale and based on continuously…
]]>Self-driving cars can run into critical situations where a human driver must retake control for safety reasons. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich have developed an AI early warning system that can give human drivers a seven-second heads-up about these critical driving scenarios. Studied in cooperation with the BMW Group, the AI system learned from 2,500…
]]>Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health have collaborated with NVIDIA experts on an AI-accelerated method to monitor COVID-19 disease severity over time from patient chest CT scans. Published today in Scientific Reports, this work studied the progression of lung opacities in chest CT images of COVID patients, and extracted insights about the temporal relationships between CT…
]]>University of Waterloo researchers are using deep learning and computer vision to develop autonomous exoskeleton legs to help users walk, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles. The ExoNet project, described in an early-access paper on “Frontiers in Robotics and AI“, fits users with wearable cameras. AI software processes the camera’s video stream, and is being trained to recognize surrounding…
]]>Scientists from the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center are using ray tracing on NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate simulations of subatomic particles by hundreds of times. Using NVIDIA RTX GPUs in a subsystem of the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Frontera supercomputer, the researchers can calculate the path of light as it travels through a one cubic kilometer block of ice at Antarctica’…
]]>Computer-generated holograms powered by deep learning could make real-time 3D holography feasible on laptops and smartphones, an advancement with potential applications in fields including virtual reality, microscopy, and 3D printing. Published this week in Nature, an MIT study outlines a novel approach called tensor holography, where researchers trained and optimized a convolutional neural…
]]>Facebook AI researchers this week announced SEER, a self-supervised model that surpasses the best self-supervised systems, and also outperforms supervised models on tasks including image classification, object detection, and segmentation. Combining RegNet architectures with the SwAV online clustering approach, SEER is a billion-parameter model pretrained on a billion random images.
]]>Simulations by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have uncovered a new mechanism for freezing in metals, advancing scientists’ understanding of nucleation, the process of gases or liquids cooling into crystalline solids. Run on 256 NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs on the Lassen supercomputer, the simulations modeled how heated copper solidifies, providing atomic-scale insights into the…
]]>A team of Uber AI researchers has achieved record high scores and beaten previously unsolved Atari games with algorithms that remember and build off their past successes. Highlighted this week in Nature, the Go-Explore family of algorithms to address limitations of traditional reinforcement learning algorithms, which struggle with complex games that provide sparse or deceptive feedback.
]]>Using the highest-resolution images of a single DNA molecule captured to date, researchers in the U.K. discovered that coiled strands of genetic material twist and writhe while crammed in a cell. This previously unobserved movement was simulated on GPU-based systems including JADE, a University of Oxford supercomputer made up of NVIDIA DGX systems. Published in Nature Communications…
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