Some detectives specialize. Detectives whose specialty is detecting kissing might benefit from the method described in this study: “Detecting Kissing Scenes in a Database of Hollywood Films,” Amir Ziai, ArXiv 1906.01843, 2019. The author reports: “We experimented with a variety of 2D and 3D convolutional architectures such as ResNet, DesnseNet, and VGGish and developed a […]
The field of banana-string detection has taken a big or little step with publication of this new study: “Target detection of banana string and fruit stalk based on YOLOv3 deep learning network,” Rihong Zhang, Xiaomin Li, Lixue Zhu, Maokun Zhong, and Yihua Gao, in 2021 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and […]
If you savor the savoring of bullshit, here are two useful essays. Each was published in The Last Word on Nothing: “Yoga & the Bullshit Prevention Protocol” by Ann Finkbeiner. and “The Pocket Guide to Bullshit Prevention” by Michelle Nijhuis. The ‘Pocket Guide’ includes this graphic: An older guide, harmonious with the Nujhuis “Pocket Guide”, […]
You might find that reading comic books is complex and confusing, if you are a machine. If both of those ifs afflict you, you might seek relief by reading this new study: “Deep CNN-based Speech Balloon Detection and Segmentation for Comic Books,” David Dubray, Jochen Laubrock, arXiv:1902.08137v1, 2019. (Thanks to Mason Porter for bringing this […]