Chapter 83: Google Compromises
If the previous release is just an ordinary display and introduction that everyone expected, then this unexpected assistance to specific cases in terms of safety can be said to be very coincidental to make the whiteness detection more credible and reliable by several notches.
As far as China's situation is concerned, what has been officially cooperated and praised is always much safer.
Li Yanhong continued to introduce some use scenarios in life, but in Meng Fanqi's opinion, these contents are quite reluctant.
At this stage, real-time detection type technology is not of much benefit to personal life, and at best it can only be used as a temporary toy.
After introducing all the scenarios and showing several important use cases, Robin Li ended with "artificial intelligence will change every industry, and whiteness detection is the best proof", ended the CEO presentation session, and left time for Wang Haifeng to introduce some data parameters and specific details.
If Li Yanhong's previous account is still suspected of PPT bragging, he did not come up with real dry goods to convince everyone.
When Wang Haifeng appeared directly with the camera, all doubts seemed very weak.
At the same time as Wang Haifeng took the stage, he also brought several whiteness staff members with him, who followed behind Wang Haifeng and pushed a large mobile cabinet to the center of the stage.
There are many models of objects visited on the cabinet, and there is a very realistic one, and there is also a more Q version of the image.
And Wang Haifeng, who walked in front, held a laptop in his hand and a hand-held external camera.
"It's a replica of what I persuaded them to do." Meng Fanqi smiled when he saw this, what PPT, parameters, the feelings are not specific enough.
Only this most direct form of presentation can give people the strongest sensory impact.
If you say a thousand things and ten thousand, it's better to take them out and show them directly.
At that time, the three high-level executives of Baidu who were persuaded by Meng Fanqi felt the deepest.
"Just a few years ago, we researchers thought it was almost impossible for a computer to tell the difference between objects. Now, not only can we know exactly what the objects in the image are, but we can even pinpoint their relative positions. ”
Wang Haifeng showed an image containing a number of objects, each clearly marked with a category and location.
"But there's one thing that hasn't been properly addressed, and that's the speed of testing."
Wang Haifeng turned the camera to focus on himself and said, "This is the most advanced and accurate R-CNN algorithm in the industry at present, we can see that he accurately predicted my existence, but it is too slow." ”
Wang Haifeng said as he paced slowly, but even with such a movement speed of only half a meter per second, the R-CNN algorithm could not keep up in time.
"And this is the fastest method in the industry at present, when there is a certain level of accuracy."
Wang Haifeng took a few steps forward and changed the algorithm he was running, "His speed is about ten or twenty frames, in fact, according to the number of frames of the movie, it seems that the human eye can already accept this number." ”
As he spoke, he took a few quick steps, and the marquee, which had already been in the right place, could not keep up again.
"Now, what we're going to introduce is a real-time detection algorithm that can run at 100+ frames."
Wang Haifeng rotated in the center of the stage, jumping, jumping sideways from side to side, but the prediction frame always expanded and contracted smoothly with his body, moving position.
When he returned to the center of the stage again, he didn't say anything, but the audience spontaneously burst into warm applause.
It's encouragement, support and heartfelt admiration for new technologies.
Most of the people present were learning about this knowledge for the first time, and they were far more shocked than when Wang Haifeng saw this technology.
In the field of public opinion, the comments about whiteness detection have also begun to improve in an all-round way, and the popularity has soared.
"it, Li Yanhong is really here this time?"
"Hurry up and introduce me to my brother, is this thing credible?"
"How old is that brother, 20? 21? I didn't see it clearly just now, so this is with the photo of the richest man in China on the whiteness press conference? ”
"Ahh I seem to have a little impression of him, what kind of elbow was he some time ago, did you mention him? ”
"If it's really one or two hundred FPS, it's too powerful, at least one or two years ahead of the world level." In the comments, there are also a few who are more aware of the progress in this direction.
At the same time, the most nervous people are the people on Google's side.
This time, unlike last year's situation when he won over Hinton's team, Meng Fanqi has already cooperated with Baidu, and it seems that it has been quite successful.
It is said that the best way to win a letter of intent from a large factory is a letter of intent from another large factory, although the whiteness is much inferior to Google at this time, but the capital that Meng Fanqi used to negotiate at this time is not just a letter of intent, but a very solid technical achievement, which can be commercialized.
In less than an hour of press conference, Baidu's stock price has soared from 173 to 195.
In fact, real-time detection algorithms cannot bring huge profits in the short term, but capital and people are obviously very optimistic about the subsequent development.
Wang Haifeng turned the camera to show the items on the mobile cabinet, "We can already make a single network recognize dozens or even hundreds of objects of different categories. ”
Immediately, he raised the camera again, directly facing the dense audience.
Zooming in slightly, almost everyone is clearly predicted on the screen.
"The speed and lightweight of this achievement allows us to run this algorithm not only on GPUs and computers, but also on our mobile phones."
Wang Haifeng took out his iPhone and briefly demonstrated the effect on it.
This is the product of the whiteness iOS system development team working overtime for several days in a row, and the operation of Meng Fanqi on the graphics card was moved to the hardware and system of the mobile phone as much as possible.
Although the speed is several times slower on mobile phones, even if it is several times slower than the original frame rate of one or two hundred, it is still within the scope of understanding and acceptance.
"And we will open source the principle and code of the technology within 6-12 months!" Wang Haifeng raised his right hand and announced very excitedly.
This promise sparked a tidal wave of applause from the audience.
Meng Fanqi and several people laughed in front of the screen, "First of all, it occupied the market for half a year to a year, and then the open source technology and code attracted enthusiasts to contribute to the community, and the result can be said to be like a great thing." ”
It's a little clever in it, but it's a good thing to be willing to open source.
When Jeff saw this, he was very worried.
Although the amount of authority given to him has not been used to the limit, and Jeff still has room to continue talking, let a young man in his early 20s force himself to the bottom line to get the final treatment.
This made him feel a little out of control.
Before talking about the split, Jeff had already contacted the board of directors once.
If you can't win it in the end this time, and you have to go back and contact the board of directors again to discuss the treatment, it will be too unprofessional and embarrassing.