Itamar Friedman | AI Research and Practice for Cloud Drive Apps
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Abstract:
In the past few years, Cloud Drive Apps have aroused increasing interest from end-users and enterprise customers. During this period, numerous artificial intelligence based features were introduced, such as functions enabling users to intelligently organize, search, share, edit and recreate content with their images and videos.
In this talk, I will introduce our latest work related to highly-efficient image understanding, which aims to enable various novel methods (such as neural architecture search and advanced training techniques) to be practiced in Cloud Drive App use cases. I will discuss use-cases such as image search through free-text query, focusing on difficult real-world problems and suggested solutions. I will also demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed techniques when applied to public competitions.
Bio:
Itamar Friedman is the director of machine vision of Alibaba DAMO Academy, Machine intelligence Israel lab. His research interests include efficient video and image analysis, with focus on automated deep learning. Prior to Alibaba, Itamar was a serial entrepreneur, founding startups in the field of web development, robotics and machine-vision offline-to-online technologies. He was a mentor in Microsoft Accelerator TLV, mentoring Israeli leading AI startups in the fields of medical and drones. He holds several patents, and his research outcomes have been integrated into various products in Alibaba Group. Itamar holds MSc and BSc (summa cum laude) in Computer Vision and Machine Learning from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technion.