AI Model Digests Video to Learn Sign Language

AI Model Digests Video to Learn Sign Language

New Atlas

Paul McClure, May 24, 2023

A tool developed by researchers at Spain’s Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve sign language translation. The researchers fed a transformer-style machine learning model more than 80 hours of video in American Sign Language with corresponding English transcripts from the How2Sign dataset. The researchers addressed the variability and complexity of sign languages by pre-processing the video data to extract spatiotemporal information via the Inflated 3D Networks technique. They found the model produced meaningful translations, although they agreed, "There is still room for improvement."

Setchain Application Multiplies Blockchain Transaction

Thinking the implications of this. 

Setchain Application Multiplies Blockchain Transactions Per Block

IMDEA Software Institute News (Spain), September 26, 2022

Researchers at Spain's IMDEA project, Switzerland's Tezos Foundation, and French Tezos Protocol developer Nomadic Labs have unveiled Setchain, an application that allows a greater number of blockchain transactions per block. The IMDEA Networks Institute's Antonio Fernández Anta said adding millions of transactions is possible when conceptual visualizations of the boundary between blocks are required no more than once per second. "Setchain allows to store transactions permanently and reliably, introducing order between transactions when it is indispensable," explained Anta. Setchain can order blocks within the chain without requiring the ordering of transactions within the blocks, reducing costs for blockchain users. ... '