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■ A joint research team of LG Sciencepark and the University of Toronto topped among 79 teams in the ‘Continual Learning Challenge’ held by CVPR 2020
 
■ The team received high praise for suggesting a new technology method to ‘continual learning,’ a longstanding challenge in the AI sector
 
 
LG has proved its technology by taking first place in a world-renowned artificial intelligence (AI) contest.
 
LG ranked first in three categories of the ‘Continual Learning Challenge’ using artificial intelligence held by the 2020 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), a computer vision society.
 
In the Continual Learning Challenge held for the first time this year, a joint research team of LG Sciencepark and the University of Toronto, topped among a total of 79 teams including Amazon, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Tokyo University. LG achieved this feat from its first participation in the CVPR 2020 contest.
 
‘Continuous learning’, one of the longstanding AI challenges, refers to a method of continuously learning tasks sequentially. In AI-based learning, past data is deleted as data accumulates and there is a tendency to derive results focusing on new data, but this technology can solve such errors.
 
The technology introduced by LG at this competition is characterized by the fact that when data generated from a device is delivered to the cloud server in real-time, continuous learning is performed on the device rather than the cloud.
 
In particular, it is advantageous when dealing with security-sensitive information. Since it is not affected by unexpected changes in the cloud environment, there is no performance degradation, and it can significantly save the cost and time required for AI learning.
 
The team's research was highly regarded as a complex AI study that went one step further than existing AI learning methods, such as improving the performance of continual learning on devices and reducing the impact of the cloud environment.
 
This award is the first achievement since LG Sciencepark began collaborating with the University of Toronto in Canada in May last year for joint research on AI for enterprises.
 
"LG will secure world-class technology in all fields of AI, including computer vision, natural language processing, and data intelligence, starting with wining CVPR 2020," said Kyung-hoon Bae, head of the AI Division at LG Sciencepark. "To achieve this goal, we will actively promote partnerships with universities and leading companies and recruiting global talents in addition to research and development."
 
CVPR is a conference that has been co-hosted by the world's most prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Computer Vision Foundation (CVF) since 1983. A large number of world-class research institutes and companies have participated in this conference to share AI research results, such as methodology for processing images and videos with computers and applied papers.