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CELLSTRAT AI LAB – MINUTES FROM 9TH. MAR 2019 BLR MEETUP
- March 11, 2019
- Posted by: CellStrat Editor
- Category: Artificial Intelligence
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The AI Lab group continues its learnings and research on high-tech topics. As usual, fabulous AI presentations were deliverd by the members. Almost 25 members attended of which 7-8 attended remotely through Google hangout.
Following presentations took place:
- Saurabh presented a cool algo for Music generation with GANs. Since the introduction of GANs by Ian Goodfellow in 2014, GANs are being used to generate fake images and GANs are getting better in generating more realistic images. Adding to this, GANs can also be used for music generation using CNNs and are generating better quality music compared to RNNs. Music generation GANs use generator and discrimination CNNs. Since music is a continuous sequence unlike a 2D image, adding a conditional CNN’s output to the generator in addition to noise, generates better quality music.
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- Pushparaj showcased a nice MatLab solution for speech recognition technology for categorical word detection in speech.
- Anshumaan presented a superb demo on photo realistic style transfer using PyTorch. Photorealistic image stylization concerns transferring style of a reference photo to a content photo with the constraint that the stylized photo should remain photorealistic. While several photorealistic image stylization methods exist, they tend to generate spatially inconsistent stylizations with noticeable artifacts. The proposed method consists of a stylization step and a smoothing step. While the stylization step transfers the style of the reference photo to the content photo, the smoothing step ensures spatially consistent stylizations. Each of the steps has a closedform solution and can be computed efficiently.
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