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Jan 2023
42m 6s

Accelerating Perception Development with...

FRANCESCO GADALETA
About this episode
In this episode I am with Kevin McNamara, founder and CEO of Parallel Domain. We speak about a very effective method to generate synthetic data that is currently in production at Parallel Domain. Enjoy the show!     References Parallel Domain Synthetic Data Improves Cyclist Detection (blog post): https://paralleldomain.com/parallel-domain-synthetic-data-improves-cyclist-detection/    Beating the State of the Art in Object Tracking with Synthetic Data: https://paralleldomain.com/beating-the-state-of-the-art-in-object-tracking-with-synthetic-data/    Parallel Domain Open Synthetic Dataset: https://paralleldomain.com/open-datasets/bicycle-detection    How Toyota Research Institute Trains Better Computer Vision Models with PD Synthetic Data (interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIYttoVxf2w   Career Opportunities: https://paralleldomain.com/careers
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