Back in November, we open-sourced our implementation of Mask R-CNN, and since then it’s been forked 1400 times, used in a lot of projects, and improved upon by many generous contributors. We received a lot of questions as well, so in this post I’ll explain how the model works and show how to use it in a real application.
Source: matterport.com
Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover nearly 6,000 previously unknown species of virus. The work, presented on 15 March at a meeting organized by the US Department of Energy (DOE), illustrates an emerging tool for exploring the enormous, largely unknown diversity of viruses on Earth.
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Last year, the United States alone imported more than US $107 million worth of fresh papayas as the world’s largest papaya import market. The computer vision software could enable papaya growers to maximize the value of their fruit by sending the ripestpapayas to local markets and saving less ripe papayas for export, says Douglas Fernandes Barbin, a researcher in the department of food engineering at the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil. But he and his colleagues also want to help individual shoppers get their money’s worth in grocery aisles.
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