Published in SmileIdentity·Apr 18Not All Face Recognition Is Created Equal: The Need For Liveness.Over the last two years of the covid-19 pandemic, the convenience that came with society’s digital transformation has unfortunately been matched by an increase in online fraud. With password and data breaches becoming more common, many financial apps have turned to biometric face checks, matching consumers’ selfies against IDs or…Face Verification6 min read
Published in Big-ANN-Benchmarks·Jun 10, 2021Watts The Deal With Power ? Part IHow We Implement Power Benchmarking In The Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Challenge — Introduction We announced in May that NeurIPS 2021 will host a unique data and algorithm challenge in billion-scale approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS.) Participating teams will be evaluated across a set of challenging datasets, each with a billion records. We employ search accuracy ( measured as recall vs throughput ) as…Nearest Neighbor Search9 min read
Published in Big-ANN-Benchmarks·May 18, 2021NeurIPS 2021 Announcement: The Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search ChallengeWe are excited to announce that this year’s NeurIPS 2021 Conference will host a first-of-its-kind competition in large scale approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS). We will be inviting teams from the search community, both from academia and industry, to enter and submit their algorithm. Please see our official call-for-participation. During…Nearest Neighbor Search8 min read
Published in GSI Technology·Oct 24, 2019Member-onlyThe New Face of Biometrics In The Era of Hacks, Fakes, Bans, and GANsI have been hosting a series of panels with the same title in the Bay Area. The first panel was at ODSC West 2019, in Burlingame. Panelists included Michael Gormish (Clarifai), Mark Straub (Smile Identity), Hyrum Anderson (Endgame Security), and Giorgio Patrini (Deeptrace). Their bios are at the end of…Biometrics18 min read
Published in GSI Technology·Mar 29, 2019The APU: Novel Hardware For Accelerated Similarity SearchIn this blog, we will describe our custom APU chip — an innovative and exciting new design that will accelerate similarity search for a broad range of applications. But, before we get into the details of our chip, let’s take a step back and first talk about similarity search and…Machine Learning7 min read
Published in GSI Technology·Mar 7, 2019Hardware Accelerated Search For Drug DiscoveryMolecule Similarity In Milliseconds — Challenges In Drug Discovery Drug discovery is expensive — both in terms of cost and time. For just one new drug, a biotech company could spend around 3 billion dollars, in a process that can take a decade. The number of permutations of small organic molecules is enormous. Theoretically, there are 10⁶⁵ unique small…Similarity Search5 min read
Published in BioPharma Data Science And AI·Dec 5, 2018Can AI Mitigate Risk In BioPharma ?The recent uproar over the birth of genetically modified baby twins in China has given the world reason to pause. Dr. Jiankui’s “pandora’s box” has led to fresh bio-ethics debates everywhere. Unfortunately, the backlash will likely result in increased scrutiny of medical research as well as the biopharma industry at…Machine Learning8 min read
Published in GSI Technology·Jun 15, 2018ML In Visual SearchOnline retailers piece together different kinds of technology to reduce friction and to keep us coming back as customers. From face recognition for payment to voice recognition for taking orders- AI is powering more ways that help us consumers search, discover, order, and ultimately get what we want. Visual…7 min read
Published in GSI Technology·Jun 4, 2018The Visual Search Revolution: Behind The ScenesIn our previous blog post, we started to look at many of the use cases for visual search. For example, you can get instant product recommendations just by snapping a pic of something you like. Several mobile apps have this feature, such as ones from Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Pinterest…Machine Learning4 min read
