{"id":1077,"date":"2019-07-04T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2019-07-04T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T08:12:08","slug":"how-a-i-helped-improve-crowd-counting-in-hong-kong-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2019\/07\/04\/how-a-i-helped-improve-crowd-counting-in-hong-kong-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"How A.I. Helped Improve Crowd Counting in Hong Kong Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Crowd estimates for Hong Kong\u2019s large  pro-democracy protests have been a point of contention for years. But for the first time in the march\u2019s history, a  group of researchers combined artificial intelligence and manual  counting techniques to estimate the size of the crowd. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/07\/03\/world\/asia\/hong-kong-protest-crowd-ai.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"New York Times (opens in a new tab)\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowd estimates for Hong Kong\u2019s large pro-democracy protests have been a point of contention for years. But for the first time in the march\u2019s history, a group of researchers combined artificial intelligence and manual counting techniques to estimate the size of the crowd. New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}