Optical character recognition (short: OCR) is the task of automatically extracting text from images. Nowadays, there are a variety of tools and services available which are easy to use and make... read more
January 6th, 2020
This blog post is the second in a three part series covering machine learning approaches for time series. In the read more
December 18th, 2019
This post is the first part of a series of posts that are linked together as they all deal with the topic of time series and sequence modeling, respectively. In order to give a comprehensive... read more
December 2nd, 2019
Anyone wanting to train a Machine Learning (ML) model these days has a plethora of Python frameworks to choose from. However, when it comes to distributing your trained model to something other... read more
November 11th, 2019
Here I’m going to walk through how we approached the problem of detecting convective clouds in satellite data including what we are looking for (and why!) and the machine learning approach we... read more
October 25th, 2019
Since not only the complexity of Machine Learning (ML) models but also the size of data sets continue to grow, so does the need for computer power. While most laptops today can handle a... read more
September 24th, 2019
In Machine Learning, an insufficient amount of training data often hinders the performance of classification algorithms. Experience shows that shortage of training data is rather the rule than... read more
August 27th, 2019
Artificial intelligence (AI) and in particular computer vision promise to be valuable aids for diagnosing diseases based on medical... read more
August 12th, 2019
Natural Language Processing (short: NLP, sometimes also called Computational Linguistics) is one of the fields which has undergone a revolution since methods from... read more
July 15th, 2019
The terms Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) are used with staggering frequency. However, it is not obvious what they are supposed... read more
May 24th, 2019
This post presents some key learnings from our work on identifying roofs on satellite images. Our aim was to develop a planing tool for the placement of solar panels on roofs. For this purpose... read more
May 10th, 2019
We are currently working on an exciting project where the computer reads numbers and letters in technical drawings. These numbers and letters are used to tag the objects in the drawings. Here... read more
April 23rd, 2019
There is a growing demand for automatically processing letters and other documents. Powered by machine learning, modern OCR (optical character recognition) methods can digitize the text. But... read more