AI at the NASA Frontier Development Lab with Sara Jennings, Timothy Seabrook and Andres Rodriguez

Today we’re joined by Kyle Story, computer vision engineer at Descartes Labs. Kyle and I caught up after his recent talk at the Google Cloud Next Conference titled “How Computers See the Earth: A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Satellite Imagery at Scale.” We discuss some of the interesting computer vision problems he’s worked on at Descartes, and the key challenges they’ve had to overcome in scaling them.

16 Elo 201856min

Today we’re joined by Yi Zhu, a PhD candidate at UC Merced focused on geospatial image analysis. In our conversation, Yi and I take a look at his recent paper “What Is It Like Down There? Generating Dense Ground-Level Views and Image Features From Overhead Imagery Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks.” We discuss the goal of this research and how he uses conditional GANs to generate artificial ground-level images.

13 Elo 201838min

Today we’re joined by Larry Matthies, Sr. Research Scientist and head of computer vision in the mobility and robotics division at JPL. In our conversation, we discuss two talks he gave at CVPR a few weeks back, his work on vision systems for the first iteration of Mars rovers in 2004 and the future of planetary landing projects. For the complete show notes, visit https://twimlai.com/talk/171.

9 Elo 201843min

In this episode i'm joined by Ashutosh Saxena, a veteran of Andrew Ng’s Stanford Machine Learning Group, and co-founder and CEO of Caspar.ai. Ashutosh and I discuss his RoboBrain project, a computational system that creates semantically meaningful and actionable representations of the objects, actions and observations that a robot experiences in its environment, and allows these to be shared and queried by other robots to learn new actions. For complete show notes, visit https://twimlai.com/talk/170.

6 Elo 201845min

In this episode I speak with Joe Connor, Founder of Experto Crede. In our conversation, we explore his experiences bringing AI powered healthcare projects to market in collaboration with the UK National Health Service and its clinicians, some of the various challenges he’s run into when applying ML and AI in healthcare, as well as some of his successes. We also discuss data protections, especially GDPR, potential ways to include clinicians in the building of applications.

2 Elo 201842min

In this episode I'm joined by Laura Leal-Taixé, Professor at the Technical University of Munich where she leads the Dynamic Vision and Learning Group. In our conversation, we discuss several of her recent projects including work on image-based localization techniques that fuse traditional model-based computer vision approaches with a data-driven approach based on deep learning, her paper on one-shot video object segmentation and the broader vision for her research.

30 Heinä 201844min

In this episode I'm joined by Gillian McCann, Head of Cloud Engineering and AI at Workgrid Software. In our conversation, which focuses on Workgrid’s use of cloud-based AI services, Gillian details some of the underlying systems that make Workgrid tick, their engineering pipeline & how they build high quality systems that incorporate external APIs and her view on factors that contribute to misunderstandings and impatience on the part of users of AI-based products.

26 Heinä 201836min

In this episode, I'm joined by Jason Holmberg, Executive Director and Director of Engineering at WildMe. Jason and I discuss Wildme's pair of open source computer vision based conservation projects, Wildbook and Whaleshark.org, Jason kicks us off with the interesting story of how Wildbook came to be, the eventual expansion of the project and the evolution of these projects’ use of computer vision and deep learning. For the complete show notes, visit twimlai.com/talk/166

22 Heinä 201848min