[Nov 6th 2019] LabMeeting: Threat of Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning in Computer Vision: a Survey

Gabriele Ciravegna (University of Florence) Nov 6, 2019 – 11:00 AM DIISM, Artificial Intelligence laboratory (room 201), Siena SI Description Deep learning is at the heart of the current rise of artificial intelligence. In the field of Computer Vision, it has become the workhorse for applications ranging from self-driving cars to surveillance and security. Whereas […]

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[Oct 16th 2019] LabMeeting: Analysis of the transcriptome and traslatome in solid tumors using RNA-seq and Ribo-seq technologies

Giorgia Giacomini (University of Siena) Oct 16, 2019 – 11:00 AM DIISM, Artificial Intelligence laboratory (room 201), Siena SI Description Over the past decades, the introduction of massively parallel sequencing platforms, known as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), changed the landscape of the genetics studies in cancer genomics. NGS technologies allow for detection and quantification of […]

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[Oct 9th 2019] LabMeeting: Pseudo-Random Numbers Generation – a Reinforcement Learning approach

Luca Pasqualini (DIISM, University of Siena) Oct 9, 2019 – 11:00 AM DIISM, Artificial Intelligence laboratory (room 201), Siena SI Description Pseudo-Random Numbers Generators (PRNGs) are algorithms produced to generate long sequences of statistically uncorrelated numbers, i.e. pseudo-random numbers (PRNs). Those numbers are used in mid-level cryptography and in many software applications and libraries. Test […]

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[Sep 25th 2019] LabMeeting: Knowledge graphs for image classification and semantic navigation – from reality to virtual worlds

Matteo Tiezzi (DIISM, University of Siena) Sep 25, 2019 – 3:00 PM DIISM, Artificial Intelligence laboratory (room 201), Siena SI Description One characteristic that sets humans apart from modern learning-based computer vision algorithms is the ability to acquire knowledge about the world and use that knowledge to reason about the visual world. Humans can learn […]

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Neural Poetry: Learning to Generate Poems using Syllables

Andrea Zugarini (1,2), Stefano Melacci (2), Marco Maggini (2) (1) DINFO, University of Florence (2) DIISM, University of Siena Abstract Motivated by the recent progresses on machine learning-based models that learn artistic styles, in this paper we focus on the problem of poem generation. This is a challenging task in which the machine has to […]

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[Sep 4th 2019] LabMeeting: Jointly Learning to Detect Emotions and Predict Facebook Reactions

Lisa Graziani (DIISM, University of Siena) Sep 4, 2019 – 11:00 AM DIISM, Artificial Intelligence laboratory (room 201), Siena SI Description The growing ubiquity of Social Media data offers an attractive perspective for improving the quality of machine learning-based models in several fields, ranging from Computer Vision to Natural Language Processing. In this paper we […]

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[Aug 28th 2019] A Combinatorial-Bandit Algorithm for the Online Joint Bid/Budget Optimization of Pay-per-Click Advertising Campaigns

Nicola Gatti (Politecnico di Milano) Aug 28, 2019 – 11:00 AM DIISM, Artificial Intelligence laboratory (room 201), Siena SI Description Pay-per-click advertising includes various formats (e.g., search, contextual, and social) with a total investment of more than 140 billion USD per year. An advertising campaign is composed of some subcampaigns-each with a different ad-and a […]

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