Deep Learning Guides, Tutorials, Research, and Use-Cases

Reinforcement Learning: The Next Frontier

Deep Learning Modeling Reinforcement Learningposted by ODSC Community June 23, 2021

Deep Learning in recent years has touched many milestones – convolutional neural networks have surpassed human performance in tasks like object detection, image classification. Transformers are providing awesome results in natural language-based tasks. While these are outstanding achievements, these methods suffer from the fact that they... Read more

Facial Landmarks – a Solution in Deepfakes

Deep Learning Modeling deepfakes Facial Landmarksposted by ODSC Community June 3, 2021

The human face and body are key entities in the task of fake content generation. Particularly when dealing with the human face, apart from detecting the overall face in each image or video, a deepfake solution also needs to focus on the eyes, mouth, and other... Read more

Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement and Separation Based on Deep Learning

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Deep Learning Modeling Europe 2021posted by ODSC Community May 21, 2021

Imagine being at a cocktail party with your friends. Although you are surrounded by other people having their own conversations and a music band is playing in the background, you are still able to engage with your friends and understand what they are saying. The reason... Read more

Adversarial Image Explanation Through Alibi

Deep Learning Modeling Adversarial Image Explanation Computer Vision Europe 2021posted by ODSC Community May 7, 2021

Deep learning-based computer vision has plenty of real-life applications. In particular, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures are commonly used across multiple CV tasks as they have high accuracy. But their strength leads also to a weakness point, as a little perturbation to an input image/frame can... Read more

Music to My Mechanical Ears: Exploring the Rimworld of Sound Space: Episode 1

Deep Learning Modeling Europe 2021 GANs Generative adversarial networksposted by ODSC Community April 29, 2021

Music has been a way for us to express ourselves for quite a while now. And as we evolve, our society evolves, our technology evolves, and also, our instruments evolve. Last century we started using electronics to create music and this has provided us with so... Read more

Brand Voice: Deep Learning for Speech Synthesis

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Deep Learning Modeling East 2021posted by ODSC Community March 1, 2021

The production of artificial natural-sounding human speech is a fascinating topic due to its complexity and surprising results, with applications that range from chatbots to the automatization of audio content in news media. One obvious example of a Text-to-Speech (TTS) application for news media is a... Read more

Fake News: Where Do We Stand in the Fight Against Disinformation

Conferences Deep Learning Modeling COVID 19 East 2021 Fake Newsposted by ODSC Community February 23, 2021

If you’re familiar with conspiracy theories regarding COVID-19 vaccines, Barack Obama’s birthplace, or Hillary Clinton’s ties to “Pizzagate”, you’ve experienced only a fraction of contemporary disinformation. With the rise of social media and its capacity for viral posts and fake news, disinformation campaigns have become a common... Read more

PyTorch Lightning: From Research to Production, Minus the Boilerplate

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Deep Learning Modeling East 2021 PyTorch Lightningposted by ODSC Team February 23, 2021

The following post introduces PyTorch Lightning, outlines its core design philosophy, and provides inline examples of how this philosophy enables more reproducible and production-capable deep learning code. What is PyTorch Lightning? PyTorch Lighting is a lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research. Simply put, PyTorch Lightning... Read more

Why TensorFlow Will Stand Out on Your Resume in 2021

Data Visualization Deep Learning Machine Learning TensorFlowposted by Alex Landa, ODSC November 23, 2020

You have likely heard about TensorFlow in the machine & deep learning circles for quite a while now, and for good reason. This Google-developed framework excels where many other libraries don’t, such as with its scalable nature designed for production deployment. With that, here are just... Read more

Understanding the Temporal Difference Learning and its Predication

Deep Learning Modeling temporal difference learningposted by ODSC Community November 12, 2020

The temporal difference learning algorithm was introduced by Richard S. Sutton in 1988. The reason the temporal difference learning method became popular was that it combined the advantages of dynamic programming and the Monte Carlo method. But what are those advantages? This article is an excerpt from the... Read more