Open Source Tesla Autopilot, Song Genre Prediction, Apple’s Confirmed Car Efforts, Classical Music Datasets & More
Transmission #5
This week’s newsletter includes an amazing classical music dataset, open source Tesla Autopilot, song genre prediction, using computer vision to detect if your boss is watching your screen, generating movie art to optimize for clicks, news on Apple confirming self-driving car plans and more. Enjoy!
Each week I (@olivercameron) will be sharing the very latest news in deep learning and self-driving cars. To get priority access to these newsletters, please join the mailing list at transmission.ai!
A Curated Collection of Labeled Classical Music
MusicNet is a collection of 330 freely-licensed classical music recordings, together with over 1 million annotated labels indicating the precise time of each note in every recording, and the instrument that plays each note. The labels are verified by trained musicians. What an amazing resource! Read more…
Comma Releases Openpilot
Comma (led by George Hotz) is open sourcing an alternative to Tesla Autopilot, and a robotics platform called Neo. This is a big deal! Read more on The Verge…
Generation of Images Using Deep Learning
Generating high-resolution, photo-realistic images has been a long-standing goal in machine learning, and this work by Yoshua Bengio & team goes a long way toward it! This generative model produces high quality images at higher resolutions (227x227) than previous generative models, and does so for all 1000 ImageNet categories. Read more…
Finding the Genre of a Song with Deep Learning
One of the things we, humans, are particularly good at is classifying songs. In just a few seconds we can tell whether we’re listening to classical music, rap, blues or EDM. However, as simple as this task is for us, millions of people still live with unclassifed digital music libraries. Check out this authors solution…
Deep Learning Enables You to Hide Screen When Your Boss is Approaching
This is…interesting. Using a webcam, Keras, OpenCV and more, this “solution” will switch your screen to something more productive when it detects someone approaching (in this case, the authors boss). Read more…
Logojoy: AI-Powered Logo Maker
Dawson Whitfield created an AI-powered logo creator that’s now making $15k/mo of revenue! Read his story…
New Teslas Will Begin to Get Updated Autopilot in Mid-December
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that new Teslas will get the first generation Autopilot features back in mid-December. From there, Autopilot 8.1 features will begin rolling out incrementally on a monthly basis. Read more…
Being Smart with Art
A fascinating talk at MLconf from Netflix’s Director of Machine Learning, Guy Lebanon. Guy discusses how Netflix uses machine learning to produce the best imagery for a TV show or movie, based on engagement data and more. Check it out…
Apple Confirms It Is Working on Self-Driving Cars
Apple has said for the first time that it is working on technology to develop self-driving cars. The company, which has been rumoured to be interested in the automated car market for the past two years, confirmed its previously secret initiative in a statement to the US highways regulator. Read more…
That’s it for this week, thanks for reading! If you have any thoughts or questions, I’d love to hear from you in Tweet-form. You can follow and message me at @olivercameron.
