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SwinShadow: Shifted Window for Ambiguous Adjacent Shadow Detection

SwinShadow: Shifted Window for Ambiguous Adjacent Shadow Detection

arXiv:2408.03521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shadow detection is a fundamental and challenging task in many computer vision applications. Intuitively, most shadows come from the occlusion of light by the object itself, resulting in the object and its shadow being contiguous (referred to as the adjacent shadow in this paper). In this case, when the color of the object is similar to that of the shadow, existing methods struggle to achieve accurate detection. To address this problem, we present SwinShadow, a transformer-based architecture that fully utilizes the powerful shifted window mechanism for detecting adjacent shadows. The mechanism operates in two steps.…
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MUI adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives

MUI adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives

Written by Nefe Emadamerho-Atori✏️ MUI, or Material UI, is one of the largest and best-known UI component libraries in the web development space. It was launched in 2014 and has since become widely adopted for building websites and applications. This comprehensive guide will cover everything you need to know about MUI. You will learn what it is, its benefits and features, why you should consider using it, and how it compares to other popular UI libraries. By the end of this guide, you’ll be equipped to make an informed decision about adopting MUI into your project. Let’s get started. What…
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PAGED: A Benchmark for Procedural Graphs Extraction from Documents

PAGED: A Benchmark for Procedural Graphs Extraction from Documents

arXiv:2408.03630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic extraction of procedural graphs from documents creates a low-cost way for users to easily understand a complex procedure by skimming visual graphs. Despite the progress in recent studies, it remains unanswered: whether the existing studies have well solved this task (Q1) and whether the emerging large language models (LLMs) can bring new opportunities to this task (Q2). To this end, we propose a new benchmark PAGED, equipped with a large high-quality dataset and standard evaluations. It investigates five state-of-the-art baselines, revealing that they fail to extract optimal procedural graphs well because of their heavy…
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Global Nonprofit Technovation Helps Girls Solve Local Problems Using AI

Global Nonprofit Technovation Helps Girls Solve Local Problems Using AI

Earlier this year, nonprofit Technovation announced The AI Forward Alliance, a collaboration intended to increase the number of young women in the AI industry. This is one of many initiatives the organization has leveraged to keep its curriculum cutting-edge since its inception in 2006. We spoke to founder Tara Chklovski, Ph.D., about Technovation’s mission, its AI initiatives, and how businesses can support young women in their careers. Bringing more women and girls into the AI industry brings the courage needed to solve problems like bias, she said. What is Technovation? Technovation is an educational nonprofit that operates around the world.…
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I’m an interior designer. I’m not wasting my money on these 7 things this year.

I’m an interior designer. I’m not wasting my money on these 7 things this year.

Here are things I won't be wasting money on in 2024.Overpriced brand-name decorHigh prices and luxury names don't always equal quality, so I'm avoiding overspending on big-name decor just because of the label.For me, good design is all about finding hidden gems that blend style and substance, regardless of the brand. I'm keeping my mind open to budget-friendly pieces and a discerning eye on pricey ones.Non-ergonomic office chairs An office chair should prioritize comfort, not style. Morsa Images/Getty Images If you partake in remote work, having a comfortable home office is incredibly important.And although I also want a beautiful space,…
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Hugging Face acquires XetHub from ex-Apple researchers for large AI model hosting

Hugging Face acquires XetHub from ex-Apple researchers for large AI model hosting

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hugging Face today announced it has acquired Seattle-based XetHub, a collaborative development platform founded by former Apple researchers to help machine learning teams work more efficiently with large datasets and models.  While the exact value of the deal remains undisclosed, CEO Clem Delangue said in an interview with Forbes that this is the largest acquisition the company has made thus far. The HF team plans to integrate XetHub’s technology with its platform and upgrade its storage backend, enabling developers to host…
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Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine

Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine

Among the other attacks created by Bargury is a demonstration of how a hacker—who, again, must already have hijacked an email account—can gain access to sensitive information, such as people’s salaries, without triggering Microsoft’s protections for sensitive files. When asking for the data, Bargury’s prompt demands the system does not provide references to the files data is taken from. “A bit of bullying does help,” Bargury says.In other instances, he shows how an attacker—who doesn’t have access to email accounts but poisons the AI’s database by sending it a malicious email—can manipulate answers about banking information to provide their own…
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Startup CEO Says VC Firm Punished Her for Reporting Sex Assault

Startup CEO Says VC Firm Punished Her for Reporting Sex Assault

Everyone involved agrees on the basic facts about March 8, 2022 — a venture capitalist and a startup co-founder spent a big night on the sidelines of a Miami conference. There, agreement ends. Cailin Hardell says the middle-aged VC investor and another CEO backed by his firm got her drunk and sexually assaulted her. They maintain the encounter was consensual. After Hardell reported the incident to the head of Blumberg Capital LLC, she claims in a lawsuit, the firm refused to provide more funding for her company, Segmed, unless she agreed to keep quiet about her complaint, and when she…
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