AWS re:Invent 2016: Deep Learning at Cloud Scale: Improving Video Discoverability on AWS (MAC205)

Опубликовано 3 декабря 2016, 18:10

Deep learning continues to push the state of the art in domains such as video analytics, computer vision, and speech recognition. Deep networks are powered by amazing levels of representational power, feature learning, and abstraction. This approach comes at the cost of a significant increase in required compute power, which makes the AWS cloud an excellent environment for training. Innovators in this space are applying deep learning to a variety of applications. One such innovator, Vilynx, a startup based in Palo Alto, realized that the current pre-roll advertising-based models for mobile video weren’t returning publishers' desired levels of engagement. In this session, we explain the algorithmic challenges of scaling across multiple nodes, and what Intel is doing on AWS to overcome them. We describe the benefits of using AWS CloudFormation to set up a distributed training environment for deep networks. We also showcase Vilynx’s contributions to video discoverability, and explain how Vilynx uses AWS tools to understand video content. This session is sponsored by Intel.