LG Leading in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ranked 1st in the World's Most Prestigious Competition

[Asia Economy Reporter Changhwan Lee] LG has proven its technological prowess by securing first place in a global artificial intelligence (AI) competition.

LG announced on the 24th that it took first place in three categories of the ‘Continual Learning Challenge’ using AI, recently held at the prestigious computer vision conference ‘2020 CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition),’ achieving the overall top rank.

In the inaugural ‘Continual Learning Challenge’ this year, LG Sciencepark participated as a joint research team with the University of Toronto, defeating a total of 79 teams including Amazon, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Tokyo to win the championship. This is the first achievement since LG’s debut participation in the ‘CVPR 2020’ competition.

‘Continual learning’ refers to a method in AI that allows sequential tasks to be learned continuously, which has been one of the longstanding challenges in the AI field. When AI-based learning progresses, as data accumulates, past data tends to be erased and results are derived mainly based on new data; this technology can resolve such errors.

The key feature of the technology LG demonstrated in this competition is that continual learning is conducted on the device rather than in the cloud when transmitting data generated on devices to cloud servers in real time. This is especially advantageous when handling sensitive information related to security, and it is not affected by unexpected changes in the cloud environment, preventing performance degradation while drastically reducing the cost and time required for AI learning.

The research results were highly evaluated as advanced AI research outcomes that surpass existing AI learning methods by improving continual learning performance on devices and reducing the impact of cloud environments.

This award is the first result since LG Sciencepark began its collaboration with the University of Toronto in Canada in May last year for joint research on enterprise AI.

Baek Gyeong-hoon, Head of AI Promotion Division at LG Sciencepark, emphasized, “Starting with this 2020 CVPR award, LG will secure world-class technological capabilities in all AI fields including computer vision, natural language processing, and data intelligence. To this end, we will actively promote not only research and development but also partnerships with academia and leading companies, as well as the recruitment of global talent.”

Meanwhile, the ‘CVPR Conference’ is jointly hosted by the world’s most prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Computer Vision Foundation (CVF) since 1983.

It serves as a platform where leading research institutions and companies worldwide participate in large numbers to present and share AI research achievements such as methodologies and application papers on computer-based image and video processing.

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