NVIDIA To Host AI Tech Summit at NeurIPS

At the thirty-second Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurlPS) in Montreal, Canada, NVIDIA will host the NVIDIA AI Tech Summit, a half-day workshop about how GPU-accelerated computing is transforming the landscape of computational science and AI. We’ll explore the future of GPU computing, give you the latest analysis of NVIDIA’s AI platforms, and demo … Continued

Take AI Learning to the Edge with NVIDIA Jetson

The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano and Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kits are now available at a discount for qualified students, educators, and researchers. Since its initial release almost 10 years ago, the NVIDIA Jetson platform has set the global standard for embedded computing and edge AI. These high-performance, low-power modules and developer kits for deep … Continued

New AI Style Transfer Algorithm Allows Users to Create Millions of Artistic Combinations

Current style transfer models are large and require substantial computing resources to achieve the desired results. To accelerate the work and make style transfer a tool that is more widely adopted, researchers from NVIDIA and the University of California, Merced developed a new deep learning-based algorithm for style transfer that is effective and efficient.  The … Continued

This AI Can Automatically Remove the Background from a Photo

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), ETH Zurich, and Adobe recently introduced a new deep learning-based tool that can automatically extract objects or people in the foreground from the background. The solution offers an alternative to manually selecting an object in a photo and attempting to remove it the old-fashioned way. … Continued

NVIDIA Reveals the TITAN of Turing: TITAN RTX

At the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in Montreal, Canada (NeurIPS), NVIDIA announced the TITAN RTX GPU.  The NVIDIA TITAN RTX is the world’s most powerful desktop GPU, providing performance for AI research, data science, and creative applications. “Turing is NVIDIA’s biggest advance in a decade – fusing shaders, ray tracing, and deep learning … Continued

Startup Uses NVIDIA GPUs to Analyze Sports Broadcasts in Real Time

Sportlogiq is a Montreal, Canada-based startup that uses deep learning and NVIDIA GPUs to collect sports analytics from a standard video in real time. The company, a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program, recently showed off their technology at the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah this week. “Sportlogiq … Continued

Developer Voices

We love seeing all of the NVIDIA GPU-related tweets – here’s some that we came across this week: Jetpack installed! @nvidia Jetson TX1 is ready to be put to the test in Uganda! (1st one here?) #STEM #realdeal #makerspaces pic.twitter.com/99PMgHeOFD — Just Cause Education Outreach (@JustCauseCanada) July 13, 2017 #NanoJSQUIRREL is now 10-100x faster thanks … Continued

NVIDIA Research Puts Smart Picking Within Grasp

As another step toward enabling robots to work effectively in complex environments, robotics researchers from NVIDIA have developed a novel deep learning-based system that allows a robot to perceive household objects in its environment for the purpose of grasping the objects and interacting with them. With this technique, the robot is able to perform simple … Continued

NVIDIA Invents AI Interactive Graphics

Twenty-five years ago NVIDIA transformed the computer graphics industry by building the first GPU, the modern day tool of the da Vincis and Einsteins of our time. Now, a new deep learning-based model developed by NVIDIA researchers aims to catapult the graphics industry into the AI chapter. Using a conditional generative neural network as a … Continued

AI Startup Aims To Redefine How People Interact with Technology

TwentyBN is a German/Canadian based AI startup that is using computer vision to redefine how people interact with technology.  At NeurIPS in Montreal, Canada this week the company demonstrated a brand new computer vision based-avatar named Millie that is designed for retail and entertainment applications. “Millie is a context-aware avatar that we’re showing for the … Continued