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@10:08 on the right merc sls classified as SUV on the left one SUV classified as two VANs Their algorithm works at about 1Hz rate when doing signs. This is ~state of the art from 20 years ago, but running on small mobile SoC at a slow rate.

Please show a paper where fine-grained vehicle classification in unconstrained images is anywhere near this performance from 20 years ago. You will not be able to, because it wasn't.

Re: Nvidia's demo of real-time object recognition using deep learning [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as state-of-the-art classification goes, this is not terribly impressive. See the recent results in something like: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/ I think the impressive thing here is that the GPU is presumably doing GIANT matrix multiplications in real time. A prediction from a neural net is just a series of matrix multiplications, and matrix multiplications are about n^2.8 in complexit…

From what i can understand what's even more impressive is that it was running on a beefed up version of their latest mobile SOC and not on some 5000$ compute GPU card. Which means that this application can be both very affordable and very practical since people won't put a 300W GPU in their car.

Yeah those numbers aren't particularly accurate. GTX 980, which costs about $600, has 2048 cuda cores and 5 tflops peak, with 150 watts consumption.

Re: Nvidia's demo of real-time object recognition using deep learning [video]

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The CEO butting in all the time was really annoying, had a business partner that did this in meetings all the time - its fucking annoying and rude. On the surface I have no idea if this is ground breaking or not, my first thought was ahh nVidia using Linux!

Yeah, and his colour commentary is subtly wrong, too.

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The CEO butting in all the time was really annoying, had a business partner that did this in meetings all the time - its fucking annoying and rude. On the surface I have no idea if this is ground breaking or not, my first thought was ahh nVidia using Linux!

Maybe because there was no rehearsal.

Re: Nvidia's demo of real-time object recognition using deep learning [video]

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The CEO butting in all the time was really annoying, had a business partner that did this in meetings all the time - its fucking annoying and rude. On the surface I have no idea if this is ground breaking or not, my first thought was ahh nVidia using Linux!

Unfortunately these are the ones that make it to the top and are named CEO.

Re: Nvidia's demo of real-time object recognition using deep learning [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what i can understand what's even more impressive is that it was running on a beefed up version of their latest mobile SOC and not on some 5000$ compute GPU card. Which means that this application can be both very affordable and very practical since people won't put a 300W GPU in their car.

Definitely agreed. When well-maintained and easy to use machine learning libraries meet very powerful, highly embeddable GPUs (or other dedicated linear algebra sort of hardware), I think we'll see a big revolution in the whole "smart object" field. Right now you have iPhones and whatnot doing touch ID with fingerprints, but imagine if your phone could recognize you just by quickly analyzing the gyro data as you rais…

Intel 'realsense' drone demo was, and I'm not into the smart/IoT trend, somehow impressive. A flying electromechanical bug on stage at a mainstream show, to me that was a small but real inflection point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn83Psbv61I

ps: I'm not sure it was fully real-time though, the door avoidance restart seemed a little too nicely cued.

Re: Nvidia's demo of real-time object recognition using deep learning [video]

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Looks great! Can anyone with more knowledge about deep learning say whether this is an exceptional achievement in the field ?

I'm not an expert but, from what I do know, it seems like the take-away here is that it's running on tech which is within reach of most consumers. Sure, academics are accomplishing more impressive feats in the lab. However, it looks like nVidia has brought these algorithms onto hardware which is probably not much different from what they're already selling to gamers at a reasonable price. That could end up being a really big deal and could boost applications of computer vision in consumer tech significantly.

Re: Nvidia's demo of real-time object recognition using deep learning [video]

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Cool demo but I still wonder if fundamentally this is just a brute-force approach. Wouldn't it be better to do some traditional preprocessing (e.g. recognizing rectangles, circles, etc.) and feeding higher-level descriptors into the classifier?

If the net learns based on pixels you still have to somehow solve rotation and scale invariance. Or is there something new in deep-learning vs. old-school neural nets that fixes the issues that bedeviled neural nets the first time they were popular?

Re: Nvidia's demo of real-time object recognition using deep learning [video]

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Cool demo but I still wonder if fundamentally this is just a brute-force approach. Wouldn't it be better to do some traditional preprocessing (e.g. recognizing rectangles, circles, etc.) and feeding higher-level descriptors into the classifier? If the net learns based on pixels you still have to somehow solve rotation and scale invariance. Or is there something new in deep-learning vs. old-school neural nets that fix…

I think they used the methods described in http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rbg/papers/r-cnn-cvpr.pdf
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