With all the recent advancements in end-to-end deep learning, it is now possible to train AI agents to perform many different tasks (some in simulation and some in the real-world). End-to-end learning allows one to replace a multi-component, hand-engineered system with a single learning network that can process raw sensor data and output actions for...

Driven by computer vision and deep learning techniques, a new wave of imaging attacks has recently emerged which allows anyone to easily create highly realistic "fake" videos. These false videos are known as Deep Fakes. While highly entertaining at times, DeepFakes can be used to perturb society and some would argue that the pre-shock has already begun....

You might go to a cutting-edge machine learning research conference like NIPS hoping to find some mathematical insight that will help you take your deep learning system's performance to the next level. Unfortunately, as Andrew Ng reiterated to a live crowd of 1,000+ attendees this past Monday, there is no secret AI equation that will let you escape...

In Quantum Mechanics, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that there is a fundamental limit to how well one can measure a particle's position and momentum. In the context of machine learning systems, a similar principle has emerged, but relating interpretability and performance. By using a manually wired or shallow machine learning model, you'll...

Started by the youngest members of the Deep Learning Mafia [1], namely Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, the ICLR conference is quickly becoming a strong contender for the single most important venue in the Deep Learning space. More intimate than NIPS and less benchmark-driven than CVPR, the world of ICLR is arXiv-based and moves fast. Today's post is...

Last month's International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) was full of Deep Learning techniques, but before we declare an all-out ConvNet victory, let's see how the other "non-learning" geometric side of computer vision is doing.  Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, or SLAM, is arguably one of the most important algorithms in Robotics, with...