Highly accurate system learns to decipher images on its own If we’ve learned anything from post-apocalyptic movies it’s that computers eventually become self-aware and try to eliminate human... Read more
NEIL program labels images, learns associations with minimal help from people A computer program called the Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) is running 24 hours a day at Carnegie Mellon Uni... Read more
They benefit from over 200 frames per second Computer Vision Through Screen tracking The maker of the display cells used to create the world’s biggest multi-touch wall and the interact... Read more
There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings about autism. Simply put, it is a physical disorder associated with brain biology and chemistry that impairs an individual’s social and communi... Read more
This provides a very intuitive experience, like the hand being ‘pulled’ toward the target. Researchers at HIIT and Max Planck Institute for Informatics show how computer vision -... Read more
A wearable brain scanner could give computers insight into how hard you’re thinking. Conversations between people include a lot more than just words. All sorts of visual and aur... Read more
The robot blemish spotter can reliably identify diseases A “learning” computer system that sorts potatoes has been built using off-the-shelf technology by researchers at t... Read more
When we see a hand, regardless of whether it’s open, in a fist, or pointing a finger, we still recognize it as a hand. If a computer has only been taught to recognize an open hand, how... Read more
Image by brewbooks via Flickr A consortium of European researchers, coordinated by the Computer Vision Centre (CVC) of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has developed HERMES, a cognit... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Hundreds of correctional officers from prisons across America descended last spring on a shuttered penitentiary in West Virginia for annual training exercises. Some offic... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Poor eyesight remains one of the main obstacles to letting robots loose among humans. But it is improving, in part by aping natural vision ROBOTS are getting smarter and... Read more
Image via Wikipedia With just a half second’s notice, a driver can swerve to avoid a fatal accident or slam on the brakes to miss hitting a child running after a ball. But first, the d... Read more