This project develops a high-performance end-to-end reinforcement learning training platform for autonomous miniature car racing. With this platform, our team won the championship of Amazon DeepRacer, a world autonomous racing competition. In addition, by combining various reinforcement learning algorithms and frameworks, our self-developed autonomous racing platform can operate at a much higher speed, surpassing the performance of Amazon DeepRacer.

This project collaborates with the international team to collect a very large-scale Chinese emotional corpus. In terms of technology, the fairness of speech emotion recognition is also discussed to solve social issues that may be encountered regarding the usability of emotion recognition. Among them, it is found that the database annotations are all labeled with the unfair perspective of men and women, which leads to biases in the trained model. In order to solve this problem, there have been preliminary achievements in the technological development of fairness, and will be submitted in the near future.

YOLOv7 is a new generation of real-time object detector, which provides the most advanced real-time object detection architecture from edge computing to cloud computing.

This integrated research project follows the Taiwan's 2030 Science & Technology Vision and takes LOHAS community and inclusive technology as the major research direction. We aim to develop trustable AI technologies, and introduce them to future smart services. That will realize the development of human-centric smart technology, and strengthen the governance and application of emerging technologies. The integrated project consists of 7 sub-projects led by PIs from National Taiwan University, National Tsing-Hua Universiy and Academia Sinica and composed of top AI technological teams. These sub-projects are divided into 3 clusters, including machine learning (sub-projects 1 and 2), computer vision (sub-projects 3 and 4), and human-centric computing (sub-projects 5, 6 and 7). We will deal with the issues of bias, fairness, transparency, explainability, traceability, and so on, from the aspects of data collection, technology, and application landing. Each sub-project will implement specific smart services to reflect the benefits and practical applications of the developed technologies. The NTU Joint Research Center for AI Technology and All Vista Healthcare, an AI Innovation Research Center supported by MOST, is responsible for management, planning, and execution of the integrated research project. We will propose a plan that can be generalized and applied to the intelligent service industry.

Machines need annotations to learn, but human babies learn human languages with almost no annotations. Can machines do the same thing? To allow machines to learn human languages with only observations like human babies, a research team at Taiwan has partnered with the speech research groups in Meta, CMU, MIT, and JHU to develop a brand new self-supervised speech processing evaluation framework, Speech Processing Universal PERformance Benchmark (SUPERB).