When Machines Learn How to Act on Their Own

Professor Carlo D'Eramo is an expert in Reinforcement Learning. The new computer science professor Carlo D'Eramo works in the field of artificial intelligence. He is an expert in a special form of machine learning called reinforcement learning. An intelligent camera surveillance system is supposed to autonomously detect stray pieces of luggage or other suspicious objects at a railway station. To do this, it has to know what suitcases and bags look like. To achieve this, humans have to feed the system with training data - in this case with as many images as possible of different pieces of luggage. A form of machine learning called reinforcement learning works in a completely different way.