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When looking at the performance, it doesn't seem like the LSTM adds very much compared to simpler multi-layer perceptrons. I wonder if that is because temporal information isn't ve…

For those interested in learning vision from a machine learning perspective I would suggest "Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference" [1]. Szelinski's book is also great b…

They are implying that medical devices are notoriously bad at being proprietary/closed. Hospitals would be much better off if the devices could talk to each other but it isn't feas…

I used to (almost) exclusively use Python and didn't like that I had to go bath and forth with Cython to make my models fast. Earlier this year I ported some of my code to Julia an…

I assume he's referring to Qt.

You're right that the video looks very impressive. However, I'm hesitant to believe that this actually works as well as one might perceive. In this area (called semantic segmentati…

I don't know much about PeerJ but I'm intrigued by their efforts as a publishing company to foster open collaborations like this.

I've only been watching from the Deep Learning sidelines -- but I believe people have steered away from pretraining over the past year or two. I think on practical datasets it does…

As a robotics/computer vision researcher I disagree with you. The first Kinect was a godsend for robotics - previously it cost thousands of dollars for similar types of sensors. Ty…

In Europe you typically need a masters degree before you start a PhD program. In the US you don't - you can think of it as a 2+3 type program where you spend the first couple of ye…

I just tried Go Dance (an ios game that uses the Extreme Reality engine) with artwork in the background and it worked well enough.

OpenCV is currently supported by Itseez so it shouldn't be effected http://itseez.com/

I guess I often assume that topics classes like these assume some sort of background in machine learning. Perhaps that's not the case.

I am surprised that there is no mention of this in the course syllabus -- in fact it looks like a lot of recent techniques that are missing. They don't even talking about LSA(/SVD)…

I'm not sure about the MCAT/GMAT/LSAT but the GRE is a pretty bad indicator. For example, everyone who goes to grad school for computer science or engineering gets minimum a 750 on…

Me and many of the people I know use it everyday. It's the easiest 'cloud' storage out there and certainly the most popular. I'm not sure why you say it has no place in the future.…

I don't think vision/ML techniques will be a viable option for quite a while. These algorithms have a hard enough time correctly classifying dozens of classes, let alone 8.7 millio…

I'm living in Germany for the summer and am surprised at how little people use cards here compared to the in the states. I love being able to use a debit/credit card so that everyt…

Patents aren't about doing things that are hard. They're about doing things that are new.

You still see ads, but they feel less invasive than the ones people who don't have a subscription see.

Is this really much different than current time-of-flight cameras / flash LIDARs? It looks like a slightly modified version of one of those with a lower frequency pulse or somethin…

Am I the only person that loves the mouse/trackpad feel in OS X? Maybe it's because I've gotten too used to it, but I find it somewhat annoying to switch to Win or Ubuntu because o…

Thanks for the link! Not to try to highjack the post, but for those interested in resources for computer vision see my post from a few months ago: http://colinlea.posterous.com/on-…

A couple times?? Surely some people do that, but I doubt it's the majority. This is way too broad of a generalization.