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High-speed face tracking enhances augmented reality experiences

Augmented reality (AR) has become a hot topic in the entertainment, fashion, and makeup industries. Though a few different technologies exist in these fields, dynamic facial projection mapping (DFPM) is among the most sophisticated ...

Computer Sciences

Low-cost framework enhances metadata replication with adaptive synchronization

Metadata management has always been the focus of distributed file systems research. Metadata replication exhibits a comparative advantage in maintaining locality and balancing system load. However, according to the requirements ...

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New algorithm improves how AI can independently learn and uncover patterns in data

Researchers have developed a new AI algorithm, called Torque Clustering, that is much closer to natural intelligence than current methods. It significantly improves how AI systems learn and uncover patterns in data independently, ...

Computer Sciences

Interactive maps show quality of public transportation in Germany

How good is the public transportation from your home address? For an objective perspective, you can check the interactive "Mobility Maps" for Germany that are freely available online.

Computer Sciences

The era of practical quantum computers draws closer

In 1981, American physicist and Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman, gave a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) near Boston, in which he outlined a revolutionary idea. Feynman suggested that the strange ...

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Machine learning approach enhances emotion detection accuracy

Facial emotion recognition could have broad applications across health care, education, marketing, transportation, and entertainment. It might be used to help monitor patients remotely or in overstretched hospitals or emergency ...

Software

How we almost ended up with a bull's-eye bar code

Few objects in the world are more immediately recognizable than the bar code. After all, bar codes are all around us. They're on the books we buy and the packages that land on our doorsteps. More than 6 billion bar codes ...

Computer Sciences

Can large language models detect sarcasm?

Large language models (LLMs) are advanced deep learning algorithms that can analyze prompts in various human languages, subsequently generating realistic and exhaustive answers. This promising class of natural language processing ...

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Researchers create first programmable, logical quantum processor

Harvard researchers have realized a key milestone in the quest for stable, scalable quantum computing, an ultra-high-speed technology that will enable game-changing advances in a variety of fields, including medicine, science, ...

Internet

Researchers mold model for more nimble networks

Roughly three decades since the dawn of the World Wide Web, the process by which data pings around the internet and to our devices has, by design, remained largely unchanged.

Computer Sciences

Q&A: Alexa, am I happy? How AI emotion recognition falls short

Is the fear of public speaking the same as being chased by a bear? Does raising an eyebrow convey amusement or confusion? In 1995, Rosalind Picard, a scientist and inventor, introduced the idea of computers developing the ...

Computer Sciences

How AI can help journalists find diverse and original sources

What would news stories be without proper sources? To tell a compelling story, reporters need to find newsworthy narratives and trustworthy information. Such information typically comes from a wide pool of publications, official ...

Computer Sciences

Algorithm takes on photographic motion blur

One of the many problems faced by a wide range of photographers in wildlife, sports, celebrity and theatrical photography, and even industrial testing and medical photography is the issue of motion blur. This occurs when ...