Micro-climate predictions: Enabling hyper-local decisions for agriculture and renewables
It is springtime in Eastern Washington, USA, and the temperature is slightly above freezing. A farmer is preparing to fertilize his fields of wheat and lentils as winter runoff and frost are nearly finished. The…
Air Pollution Sensing and Causal Modelling
Through our drive-by air pollution sensing research project, we are enabling cost-efficient collection of granular spatiotemporal pollution data through drive-by sensing.
Fake It Till You Make It: Face Analysis In The Wild Using Synthetic Data Alone [Video]
We demonstrate that it is possible to perform face-related computer vision in the wild using synthetic data alone. The community has long enjoyed the benefits of synthesizing training data with graphics, but the domain gap…
HoloLens Navigation for Robots
The HoloLens Navigation for Robots project is an open source repository to be included as a release in the Applied Robotics Research Library. It is a set of sample code to build software capable of…
Three Explorations on Pre-Training: an Analysis, an Approach, and an Architecture
In this talk, I am going to cover three of our recent explorations on pre-training. First is an analysis on object/attribute detection pre-training, which produces bottom-attention features extensively used in vision and language research. The…