Computer Vision, Speech & NLP Videos Hacker News Recommends
Computer vision, speech & NLP videos on HackerTube: the talks, lectures and explainers Hacker News commenters keep sharing, covering image recognition, object detection, OCR, speech recognition, text-to-speech, machine translation, natural language processing, face recognition, classical AI and expert systems.
58 videos · ranked by HN recommendations · showing 1–48
Most recommended computer vision, speech & NLP videos
The ones HN returns to most often when a thread turns to this topic.
talk#250Bay Area Vision Meeting: Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning
Google TechTalks
“he explains very simply how all this works for images and some examples about the audio case.”
9 HN recommenders · 2011–2013
talk#406"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea
Strange Loop Conference
“There's a great strangeloop talk[2] demonstrating talon and the actual state of voice coding”
5 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
talk#417Andrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla
Matroid
“I highly recommend watching head of AI at Tesla Andrej Karpathy's talk on their self driving architecture.”
4 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
tutorial#510Tensorflow and deep learning - without a PhD by Martin Görner
Devoxx
“Tensorflow and deep learning - without a PhD" is really good, and covers a lot of material in a single 2hr talk.”
6 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
explainer#568JPEG DCT, Discrete Cosine Transform (JPEG Pt2)- Computerphile
Computerphile
“I finally understood DCT after watching”
6 HN recommenders · 2015–2026
explainer#577Fourier Optics used for Optical Pattern Recognition
Huygens Optics
“The video happens to have one of the best explanations of Fourier transforms I've yet encountered.”
5 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
lecture#844Let's build the GPT Tokenizer
Andrej Karpathy
“Worth spending 2h for the deeper understanding if you deal with LLMs.”
5 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
talk#846Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn
TED
“I highly recommend watching the TED talk by Luis von Ahn, creater of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA.”
4 HN recommenders · 2012–2022
talk#934!!Con 2017: HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! by Kevin Chen
Confreaks
“It's short and fun, I recommend it to all HN readers.”
4 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
talk#981Dasher: information-efficient text entry
Google TechTalks
“Dasher is fantastic, because it's based on rock solid information theory, designed by the late David MacKay.”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2025
lecture#1092LSTM is dead. Long Live Transformers!
Seattle Applied Deep Learning
“has gotten tons of compliments and keeps people watching year after year”
4 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
demo#1154Dual Photography
mm648230
“Skip ahead to 4:19 for a succinct demo.”
4 HN recommenders · 2013–2026
lecture#1627Lecture 1 | Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
Stanford University School of Engineering
“I will suggest two brilliant courses from Stanford”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
demo#1638Stealing Baseball Signs with a Phone (Machine Learning)
Mark Rober
“This video explains neural nets/machine learning and had my kids riveted”
3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
talk#1744[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla
WAD at CVPR
“This talk was worth watching (any Karpathy or Carmack talk is imo)”
4 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
talk#1795Google Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data
GoogleDeveloperDay
“You should definitely watch it if you haven't seen it before.”
3 HN recommenders · 2007–2009
lecture#1872Peter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
UBC Computer Science
“Norvig does an especially great job in making you truly appreciate the seismic impact that the availability of massive quantities of data can have”
3 HN recommenders · 2012–2026
explainer#21193D Gaussian Splatting! - Computerphile
Computerphile
“Here's a much better explainer from some people who seem to actually understand the subject matter and not just the buzzwords”
3 HN recommenders · 2024–2026
documentary#2129How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
Tom Scott
“This Tom Scott video shows some of the surprising (to me) lengths to which the USPS does go to figure out the right address”
4 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
demo#2241Speaking Piano - Now with (somewhat decent) captions!
TheMcphearson
“This is a other great example”
3 HN recommenders · 2010–2023
explainer#2277AI Language Models & Transformers - Computerphile
Computerphile
“You can check-out his other videos on NLP as well they are all excellent.”
3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
demo#2303This AI actually WORKS!!! - NVIDIA RTX Voice
ShortCircuit
“It's really pretty impressive, here's a demo”
2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
demo#2349BFS-Auto: High Speed Book Scanner at over 250 pages/min
Ishikawa Group Laboratory
“very very impressive but to my knowledge not commercially available”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
tutorial#2387George Hotz | Programming | Livecoding SLAM | twitchslam | Part1
george hotz archive
“The guy's a certified legend.”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
course#2397Practical Deep Learning for Coders: Lesson 1
Jeremy Howard
“The lectures are super hands on - Jeremy actually fires up a jupyter notebook and runs code which often surprises him”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
demo#2429[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902
Denis Shiryaev
“I've really come to enjoy these sorts of upscaled videos that allow a view of various cities in the early 1900's.”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
demo#2463Hound Internal Demo
Hound by SoundHound Inc.
“That's insanely fast, compound natural language queries. I'm impressed.”
2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019
demo#24803-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013
Daniel CohenOr
“this single video blew my mind back in *2013* and I find myself thinking about it often.”
2 HN recommenders · 2013–2024
talk#2498Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes
Next Day Video
“Perhaps the best presentation to a programming language conference in history.”
3 HN recommenders · 2014–2023
talk#2544How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
IEEE Spectrum
“The whole talk is awesome and a presentation for an actual technical audience, too.”
2 HN recommenders · 2012–2016
podcast#2772Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221
Lex Fridman
“If anybody wants to hear more about Doug's work and ideas, here is a (fairly long) interview with Doug by Lex Fridman”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
demo#2962#VoCo. Adobe Audio Manipulator Sneak Peak with Jordan Peele | Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Creative Cloud
“I really recommend the Adobe demonstration of their VoCo speech audio "photoshopping" because of Jordan Peele's reaction”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
talk#3047"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)
Strange Loop Conference
“If you want a general overview of cursorless, along with seeing what it looks like in practice, the talk from Strange Loop this year was great”
2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
explainer#3151Glitch Tokens - Computerphile
Computerphile
“it's also a good introduction to the topic.”
2 HN recommenders · 2023
talk#3240Duolingo -- the next chapter in human computation | Luis von Ahn | TEDxCMU 2011
TEDx Talks
“First thing: Watch this video from Luis von Ahn”
2 HN recommenders · 2011–2012
demo#3305Larynx Demo
synesthesiam
“Larynx is significantly ahead in terms of quality of output”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
demo#3311[4k, 60 fps] A Trip Through New York City in 1911
Denis Shiryaev
“Having it in color with sound made the video seem much more real and relatable.”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
lecture#3423Geoffrey Hinton talk "What is wrong with convolutional neural nets ?"
trwappers
“Hinton explains the concept of capsules in this video”
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
lecture#3477Lecture 1 | Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
Stanford University School of Engineering
“The Stanford course is pretty good.”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
talk#3587Autonomous Car - what goes into sensing for autonomous driving?
Mobileye
“Here is a great, very accessible video where the CTO of MobileEye”
1 HN recommenders · 2016
course#3613CS231n Winter 2016: Lecture1: Introduction and Historical Context
Andrej Karpathy
“I will suggest two brilliant courses from Stanford”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
comedy#3699Burnistoun - Voice Recognition Elevator in Scotland
VideoFunStation
“I have regularly thrown laughing fits over this.”
1 HN recommenders · 2015–2018
talk#3703Human Computation
GoogleTalksArchive
“Luis von Ahn's talk on "Human Computation" was great”
1 HN recommenders · 2013–2019
demo#3710Facebook's Prototype VR Face Tracking Got Even Better
UploadVR
“seriously jawdropping demo of facial tracking using a few cameras in a headset”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
demo#3731High-Speed Robot Hand
Hizook
“Take a look at this video from 2009 demonstrating a 1000fps vision system and a very fast robot hand.”
1 HN recommenders · 2012–2020
demo#3765PREDATOR - Tracker that learns and improves
Zdenek Kalal
“Very nifty.”
1 HN recommenders · 2011–2023
demo#3916Deep Visualization Toolbox
Jason Yosinski
“Highly recommend this video on the Deep Visualization Toolbox”
1 HN recommenders · 2016–2025
documentary#3947How China Tracks Everyone
VICE News
“just watch the Vice doc on how China tracks people, it's on a whole another level”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
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