SAILab and QuestIT Joint Lab Announcement

We are pleased to announce the inauguration of the joint laboratory of Artificial Intelligence of the University of Siena and QuestIT, the Innovation Lab of The Digital Box. The event will take place on March 6th from 2.30 pm, and March 7th from 8.30 am to 1.30 pm in Siena, at Palazzo del San Niccolò […]

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[Feb 27th 2019] LabMeeting: Supervision Generation for Scene Text Segmentation with Multiscale Attention Networks

Paolo Andreini (DIISM, University of Siena) Feb 27, 2019 – 11:00 AM DIISM, Artificial Intelligence laboratory (room 201), Siena SI Description In this seminar, a novel approach to scene text segmentation is presented. The method exploits a new convolutional neural network model, called Segmentation Multiscale Attention Network (SMANet). Employing the SMANet the COCO–Text–Segmentation (COCO TS) […]

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[Feb 20th 2019] Increasing machine autonomy and ethics

Guglielmo Tamburrini, Università di Napoli Federico II. Feb 20, 2019 – 11:00 AM DIISM, Artificial Intelligence laboratory (room 201), Siena SI Description The rise of increasingly autonomous AI and robotic systems is bringing about a variety of novel and impending ethical issues. These include the issue whether certain forms of machine autonomy are morally admissible, […]

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[Feb 20th 2019] Explaining the behavior of learning classification systems: a model agnostic approach

Roberto Prevete, Università di Napoli Federico II. Feb 20, 2019 – 11:00 AM DIISM, Artificial Intelligence laboratory (room 201), Siena SI Description It is difficult to reconstruct and exhaustively explain the decisions/behaviors of current autonomous or semi-autonomous systems based on Machine Learning techniques. This characteristic is due to the fact that they usually do not […]

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