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• Why Teach Robots How to See? Nine Burning Questions About Computer Vision

  …sed on computer vision algorithms; quality control on assembly lines; detecting fights and other deviant behaviour in subway carriages, trains or buses (these are actual tasks solved by companies like Russian Railways). What are researchers working on now? On the one hand, there is the problem of contemporary neural networks – creating suitable datase…

  19.08.2020

• ITMO.GREEN Club Holds Online Ecohabits Camp

  … decided to take part because I wanted to learn how I can change my daily habits and become more eco-friendly. It was also interesting to see how ecological problems are being solved in other countries. For example, in Italy, waste sorting is a norm but the mentality is still not environmentally friendly yet. I don’t know a lot of people, especially among the older g…

  18.08.2020

• Lasers for Medicine: ITMO and Partners Work on Improving Medical Titanium Alloys’ Biocompatibility

  …ical University of St. Petersburg, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and University of Lyon (France). The project focuses on solving the relevant problem of implant rejection and the risk of tissue inflammation as a result of bacterial contamination. The team proposed a special biometric design of implant surface tha…

  17.08.2020

• ITMO Team Joins the Silver League of Google’s Anti-Cyberbullying Competition

  …icle titled Attention Is All You Need,” says Ivan Smetannikov, an associate professor at ITMO University’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty. “Essentially, they solve the issue of encoding-decoding and, for one, can be effectively used in computer translation. One of the features of the competition was that training sets were in English, but the valida…

  14.08.2020

• ITMO Joins Hult Prize Hosts List Alongside Oxford, Harvard, Others

  … participation in an acceleration program. The event’s main organizer is the UN; the participating projects are socially responsible and sustainable business projects aimed at solving specific problems: poverty, social inequality, pollution, and so on. The first selection round, On Campus, is conducted at various universities. The second, Regionals, brings togethe…

  12.08.2020

• St. Petersburg Scientists Propose Prototype of New Infrared Visualizer

  … converted into visible radiation of 500 nanometers in length, the one that is greenish-blue in color. This principle works for radiation in a wide range of wavelengths, which solves the key problem of many existing IR visualizing cards – their non-versatility and spectral limitations,” notes Vladimir Fedorov, a senior research associate at Saint Petersburg Academic …

  12.08.2020

• Gennady Korotkevich Continues Google Code Jam Streak With Seventh Win

  …the entire competition. The first prize is $15,000. The participants who are placed  2nd and 3rd place receive $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. The competition involves solving a set of algorithmic problems within a fixed period of time. This time, there were five of them. Gennady scored 173 points, having spent less time on solv

  10.08.2020

• Russian Teams Took First and Third Place at Sports Hacking Competition CyBRICS 2020

  …st from the five BRICS countries. This year, we set a new record: some 1,503 teams compared to 1,188 last year. What’s more, 786 teams participating in CyBRICS 2020 managed to solve at least one task, there were 775 such teams last year.” The first place went to the team corruptedpwnis, which consisted of students and graduates of different Russian universit…

  10.08.2020

• What’s Next for the Self-Driving Cars Market?

  … everyone. But in reality, self-driving transport will be subject to many technical and infrastructural questions. Philosophy of mobility  Philosophy is not a way to solve questions, but a way to identify problems.  Elon Musk’s ideas could be interesting when talking about cars of the future. He once claimed that about 95% of all road accidents are cause…

  07.08.2020

• ITMO University Co-Hosts Machine Learning Cup for School Students From Samara

  …e learning, neural networks, and text recognition are widely represented in educational literature. For that reason, kids at some of the more advanced schools learn Python and solve applied problems. We chose machine learning and text recognition to show how machine learning, which some might see as abstract, really works. We invited Arkadiy Krivosheev, a staff membe…

  06.08.2020