CHI 2018 Honourable Mention Award
HCI Researcher Fabrice Matulic received an “Honourable Mention Award” at CHI 2018 for the paper “Experimental Analysis of Barehand Mid-air Mode-Switching Techniques in Virtual Reality“, co-authored...
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ICRA 2018 Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
The paper “Interactively Picking Real-World Objects with Unconstrained Spoken Language Instructions” got ICRA 2018 Best Paper on Human-Robot Interaction....
View ArticleResearch Activities at Preferred Networks
Hello, I am Takuya Akiba, a newly appointed corporate officer doubling as chief research strategist. I would like to make an inaugural address as well as sharing my view on research activities at PFN....
View ArticleAbout the Release of the DNN Inference Library Menoh
Don’t you want to use languages other than Python, especially in the deep learning community? Menoh repository : https://github.com/pfnet-research/menoh I am Shintaro Okada, developer of Menoh. This...
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Technologies behind Distributed Deep Learning: AllReduce
This post is contributed by Mr. Yuichiro Ueno, who were a Summer intern in 2017 and a part time engineer at PFN. If the mathematical expressions are not displayed correctly, please reload the page via...
View Article2018 PFN Internship Coding Tasks
We have published the coding task used in the screening process of PFN internship 2018. It is available on GitHub. https://github.com/pfnet/intern-coding-tasks Hello, I’m Kusumoto, an engineer in PFN....
View Article[PFN Day] BoF session: How to Improve Sharing of Software Components and Best...
Hello, my name is Tobias Pfeiffer, I am a Lead Engineer at Preferred Networks. On July 24, 2018, PFN held an internal tech conference called “PFN Day”, in which I hosted a Birds-of-a-Feather session...
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Team PFDet won the 2nd place in the Kaggle Open Images Challenge 2018
Team PFDet won the 2nd place in the Kaggle Open Images Challenge 2018. Google AI Open Images – Object Detection Track https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-ai-open-images-object-detection-track/leaderboard...
View ArticleNew HCI group + upcoming papers and demos at UIST and ISS 2018
Creation of HCI group At PFN, we aspire to create next-generation “intelligent” systems and services, powered by cutting-edge AI technology, but we also recognise that humans will remain essential...
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Optuna: An Automatic Hyperparameter Optimization Framework
Preferred Networks has released a beta version of an open-source, automatic hyperparameter optimization framework called Optuna. In this blog, we will introduce the motivation behind the development of...
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