Project Data Analytics Community Newsletter May 2020
We produce this newsletter to keep you plugged into the very latest developments, building capacity and understanding within the project delivery community.
Project Delivery
Construction
Centimetre-Accurate As-Builts Efficiently Captured with a Smartphone 14/05/2020 - By Geospatial World The startup AVUS have developed technology that can accurately capture as-builts from video taken on a phone, directly through their app. The technology utilizes machine learning to extract features from the video. It is designed to be used for underground infrastructure, and hopes to improve health and safety on sites through more accurate mapping. Read more ...
Using aerial photography and AI to classify buildings 07/05/2020 - By Planning, BIM & Construction Today A new project utilizing satellite images to create geospatial datasets that can be used to classify buildings and structures. An interesting project that will utilize the vast amount of satellite imagery that already exists. It will be interesting to understand potential commercial uses of this research going forward. Read more ...
Robots, AI, and the road to a fully autonomous construction industry 04/05/2020 - By VentureBeat Built Robotics have created autonomous driving technology for construction machinery. They argue that this technology might be more advanced that autonomous cars due the regulatory barriers that need to be overcome to see self-driving vehicles on our roads. These vehicles are currently only being used in the early stages of construction when humans are not yet working on site, so it will be interesting to see if this changes in the future. Read more ...
FITSCO and Cognitive Pilot to develop AI-based computer vision system 23/04/2020 - By Railway Technology Another step towards autonomous vehicles, this time in China FITSCO and Cognitive Pilot have partnered to develop advanced AI-based driver assistance system, with the end goal of eventually being fully autonomous. Read more ...
Other
Free webinar: Effective data integration 11/05/2020 - By WWTonline A webinar on June 4th on how utilities companies can implement a data integration strategy with the end goal of creating a ‘Smart’ water network. Read more ...
Can AI predict the next big flood before it happens? 30/04/2020 - By Massive Science A report from a group of scientists in the US who have been examining historical floods across North America. They are the first research group to identify atmospheric causes of river flooding, and the hope is this research can be used for flood prevention across the globe. Read more ...
Apprenticeship
Project Data Analyst Apprenticeship
There are huge untapped opportunities to be exploited in the rich seems of data produced by the projects we deliver. However, there is a shortage of people who have the skills to apply data science in a project delivery environment, which is exacerbated as organizational demands for data insights grows. Recognising this lack of capacity, we created the Project Data Analyst Apprenticeship. Read more ...
Data
AI & Machine Learning
A State-of-the-Art Open Source Chatbot 29/04/2020 - By Facebook AI Facebook has released and open-sourced the code for ‘BlenderBot’, their latest chatbot. This chatbot is designed to have improved engagement, and has a more ‘human feel’ that other chatbots currently available. Read more ...
A Scalable Approach to Reducing Gender Bias in Google Translate 22/04/2020 - By Google AI In 2018 Google Translate announced a new feature, gender-specific translations, to give the user both masculine and feminine translations to certain phrases. After attempting to role this feature out to more language pairs scalability problems were encountered. Their latest approach involves waiting until after translation has occurred to detect if a phrase is gendered. A really interesting piece of work in the area of reducing bias in machine learning. Read more ...
EfficientDet: Towards Scalable and Efficient Object Detection 15/04/2020 - By Google AI Google have introduced a new family of scalable object detection models. A problem that is prevalent with current models that perform well is the high computational resources they require. This new model achieves the same excellent performance whilst being up to 9 times smaller than current approaches, making it much more usable in real world applications. Read more ...
New Code Completeness Checklist and Reproducibility Updates 8/04/2020 - By Facebook AI Papers with code have release a code completion checklist for machine learning, with the objective being to improve reproducibility of code. Over the last few years the field of AI research has faced a lot of questions over how reproducible certain results are, and it is good to see big players in the industry taking positive steps forward. Read more ...
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