That's right, Meng Fanqi suddenly understood.
The cost of collecting and labeling data sets for detection tasks is higher, which is why the competition in which Meng Fanqi won the championship had more than 10 million classification images and only tens of thousands of detection images.
Currently, all of this content is manually annotated.
A classified image only needs to be labeled with a label, what it is.
To annotate a detection image, it is often necessary to add several or even dozens of detection frames on it. It needs to be detailed to the specific outline, and then add categories.
The cost of labeling is naturally more than ten times the difference.
The tools for adding marquees and labels to images are also imperfect and cumbersome, making them even slower.
Up to now, detection algorithms based on deep neural networks have not shown any actual commercial value. They are still in the laboratory research stage and have not actually received enough attention from these large companies.
Currently, commercial detection algorithms are still based on traditional technologies and do not require training data. Instead, they extract features through manually designed filters.
The public VOC detection data used in Meng Fanqi's demonstration totaled tens of thousands. Compared with the hundreds of billions of model parameters and the amount of data of several terabytes in the future, this scale is a bit like playing house.
At this moment, as far as Baidu is concerned, Robin Li, the deep learning research institute, has only privately accumulated less than ten times the amount of private data, which is about two to three hundred thousand pieces.
For Baidu, based on this capital, it is still a long way to go to directly provide an AI intelligence that everyone can use like the later ChatGPT.
"Li Yanhong's intention in holding this technology conference is actually to reach out for data." Meng Fanqi figured it out after thinking for a moment, "By showing this magical effect, we can seduce manufacturers who need industrial testing and institutions who need medical image testing. We need to develop self-driving car companies.”
"You give me the data, and I can help you do this function."
Robin Li wants to take advantage of this technology to harvest a large amount of free data!
This little calculation is too precise. Meng Fanqi clicked his tongue in his heart.
At this time, the value of this kind of image data has not been widely understood. With the leap in detection technology, Baidu harvests these images like leeks.
After a while, it won’t be so easy to make money in vain.
"Mr. Li, if you hold a technical conference, can you also promote me as the original author and advertise for me?" Meng Fanqi said half-jokingly and half-seriously.
If Li Yanhong holds a technology conference to introduce his YOLO detection algorithm, it is conceivable that the attention will be very high.
It is said that in the age of traffic, even a piece of shit can play the leading role if he has traffic.
If Robin Li truthfully tells the truth about his achievements at the press conference, there is no need to add any exaggeration.
Its social influence is far greater than that of posting several articles on its own.
Didn’t you see that AI technology has been published in Nature and Science? The attention was not as high as AlphaGo’s defeat of Lee Sedol and Ke Jie.
People don't pay attention to that.
"Of course, no problem." Li Yanhong agreed readily, "This technology itself is your independent research and development creation. If you are willing to remain anonymous or come to the stage, I welcome your support."
"However, if I want to introduce you, I have a small request. I would like to call you, 'Special Researcher of Baidu AI Research Institute'. Do you think this is okay?"
As expected, if he wanted Robin Li to promote him, he still had his own ideas on this matter. "Although you rejected my recruitment and did not join Baidu, our cooperative relationship is still very close. This technology also involves the distribution of interests worth tens of millions or even billions."
"At the technology conference, publicizing your identity as a special research institute of our institute will be very helpful for the growth of this technology." Li Yanhong explained, making Meng Fanqi stunned.
"Customers know that the creators of the technology are our researchers, and they appear very secure. They will have more confidence in whiteness, and their willingness to cooperate will be stronger and more stable."
Li Yanhong sounded nice, but Meng Fanqi knew that he also wanted to take advantage of his current reputation and momentum in the academic world.
There is basically a consensus in the AI academic community that the most outstanding AI technology breakthrough in 2013 was Meng Fanqi's residual network and generative adversarial network.
At this point, Baidu promoted itself as a special researcher of Baidu and jointly released the third AI technology breakthrough of the same level.
It’s hard not to associate the first two outstanding works with whiteness.
After all, these three jobs were produced at the same time in just a few months.
Or how can I say that he is the richest man in China? His brain and thoughts are so flexible.
"Okay, no problem." Since the contact, Robin Li has been quite sincere and open with him, although it can be guessed that he has other thoughts. But in terms of the content of the contract, Li Yanhong was not stingy at all, and basically set the share according to the maximum proportion negotiated before.
Since the other party favored him, Meng Fanqi didn't want to be disappointed. When the time comes, Robin Li will personally stand in front of the PPT to brag and promote himself.
Just consider this small request as advertising fees paid to Mr. Li!
The content was finalized, the contract was made in duplicate and signed with a seal. This matter is over.
Compared with Li Yanhong's usual battle to sign a contract, this time it seemed quite hasty.
But Yu Kai and Wang Haifeng, who were watching on the sidelines, knew very well that the number and scale of industries that would be involved in this technical cooperation would reach a quite exaggerated level.
Baidu, who is gradually being left behind by Ali Penguin, wants to fight a good turnaround, so he is counting on artificial intelligence as the third industrial revolution.
After signing the contract, Li Yanhong and the two executives had other matters. The handover and explanation of the specific codes were handled by several senior researchers from the institute.
Although Li Yanhong continues to pay attention to technology, after all, he rarely reads and writes code in person.
The main thing is to grasp the general direction, and leave the details and actual operations to the workers below.
At this moment, Wang Kai, a senior Baidu researcher who is responsible for receiving the code and needs to understand basically all the contents, is pacing at the door with some anxiety, both excited and worried.
After the contract is signed successfully, he needs to be responsible for thoroughly understanding all the code and technical details, and after the handover, he will introduce it to the entire institute.
Faced with such a terrifying performance improvement, Wang Kai became unconfident in his own strength. Can I really understand such an exaggerated speed and such a genius idea?
But at the same time, he is very excited. He will be the first person to really get in touch with the core of this technology.
Just as he was thinking about this, the three senior executives of Baidu had left. Meng Fanqi packed up the documents inside and walked out.
"Brother! That's too cool!" Wang Kai got straight to the point. He had read the paper on production-based adversarial networks three or four times, feeling amazed and admired in his heart.
Now that I have seen such an amazing breakthrough in detection algorithms, the thousands of words in my heart have been reduced to just three words.
