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AI City Intelligence

Imagine being able to make better decisions about where to live, where to establish a new business, or how to understand the changing dynamics of urban neighborhoods. Access to detailed, up-to-date information about city environments allows us to answer these questions with greater confidence, but the challenge lies in accessing and analyzing the right data. […]

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Speeding up Science: AI tools for Pharma

At NILG.AI, our motto is “Unlocking business capabilities using Data Intelligence”, since we see Artificial Intelligence as a powerful tool designed to maximize the potential of human activity. A lot of fields have been taking advantage of the AI revolution creating more efficient systems able to get more accurate results while saving time and operation […]

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An Introduction to Multiple Instance Learning

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a form of weakly supervised learning where training instances are arranged in sets, called bags, and a label is provided for the entire bag, opposedly to the instances themselves. This allows to leverage weakly labeled data, which is present in many business problems as labeling data is often costly: Medical […]

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Crop monitoring & AI: The future of agriculture

Agriculture’s role and its importance is not strange to any of us. Besides feeding us all, it allowed the first settlements and the transition from a nomad lifestyle to a sedentary way of living that culminated in the current state of our civilization. Although there is already a lot of IoT technology and innovation being […]

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Keyboard Layout Optimization for ALS Patients

In case you missed it, you may find below our webinar in collaboration with DSSG. For most of us, typing is the easiest part of transmitting a written message: we type and walk without even looking at the keyboard. I rewrote this abstract 3-4 times – writing wasn’t the issue, the message was. For ALS […]

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Address validation for optimizing delivery success rate

In recent years, the e-commerce industry has been increasing significantly in several sectors like food, retailing, and electronics. In the latter part of 2020, this increase has been even higher with growth 3 times greater than the previous years, mostly due to the pandemic context we live in, which boosted the number of online shopping. […]

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An AI-Based Image Content Retrieval System

Similarity measurement is the basis for any information retrieval, management, or data mining system. Both in industry and in the scientific community, similarity detection has been shown to be extremely useful when applied to different use cases. Over time, the information available on the internet has been growing in an exponential way, making it harder […]

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Embedding Domain Knowledge

In the good old days, working as a Machine Learning Engineer meant working 95% of the time on feature engineering and 5% on training models with the extracted features. This was a manually intensive and time-consuming process, that usually led to inflexible proofs of concept that could hardly be adapted to new settings. Fortunately, Deep […]

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NILG.AI Named Among Western Europe’s Top B2B Companies for 2021

Here at NILG.AI, we know the importance of AI in transforming and turbocharging success for your business. Many businesses take up AI technology to cut back operational costs, grow revenue, improve efficiency, and provide a better customer experience. For a greater benefit, businesses should look into putting the full range of smart technologies including machine […]

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An Overview of Churn Prediction

Churn prediction – tandem with engagement – is probably the most wanted use case we get from Marketing departments across industries. For those of you that do not know what churn is, basically it’s associated with customers that will leave your company/services. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that companies put a lot of effort […]

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Reducing Unemployment using AI

With COVID-19, many were affected by the economic crisis and lost their jobs. In Portugal alone, between February and September, there was a 30% increase in unemployment! AI can be a powerful tool in allocating scarce resources in a more efficient way. Inspired by DSSG Fellowship’s Project in Partnership with IEFP (Instituto de Emprego e […]

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