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Computer Sciences

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 ...

Engineering

New technique aims to make food deliveries more efficient

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new technique to improve the efficiency of food-delivery operations. The technique accounts for the location of food distribution sites and delivery locations to ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Possible end of Moore's Law: Engineers discuss consequences and opportunities

In 1965, Gordon Moore defined a relationship between cadence and cost for computing innovation that came to be known as "Moore's Law." This rule both described and inspired the exponential growth that built the Information ...

Computer Sciences

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

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 ...

Computer Sciences

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 ...

Computer Sciences

Cloud data storage security approach taps quantum physics

Distributed cloud storage is a hot topic for security researchers around the globe pursuing secure data storage, and a team in China is now merging quantum physics with mature cryptography and storage techniques to achieve ...

Computer Sciences

Study finds AI recognizes faces but not like the human brain

Face recognition technology emulates human performance and can even exceed it. And it is becoming increasingly more common for it to be used with cameras for real-time recognition, such as to unlock a smartphone or laptop, ...

Computer Sciences

Researcher develops filter to tackle 'unsafe' AI-generated images

In the past year, AI image generators have experienced unprecedented popularity. With just a few clicks, all kinds of images can be created: even dehumanizing imagery and hate memes can be included. CISPA researcher Yiting ...

Computer Sciences

Generative AI explained

A quick scan of the headlines makes it seem like generative artificial intelligence is everywhere these days. In fact, some of those headlines may actually have been written by generative AI, like OpenAI's ChatGPT, a chatbot ...

Computer Sciences

A new perspective on Petri net learning

The state space explosion problem means that the state space of Petri nets (PNs) grows exponentially with PNs' size. Even the fundamental reachability problem is still an NP-Hard problem in general. It has been proved that ...

Computer Sciences

GPT-4 falls short of Turing threshold

One question has relentlessly followed ChatGPT in its trajectory to superstar status in the field of artificial intelligence: Has it met the Turing test of generating output indistinguishable from human response?

Engineering

Algorithms descend into sewers to improve inspections

They never cross our minds until they become damaged and then they're a huge problem: our sewers. Their maintenance could be much faster and more accurate, Ph.D. candidate Dirk Meijer has discovered. Algorithms are also proving ...