Facial recognition taken to the next level in virtual reality
Faces can unlock smartphones, provide access to a secure building, and speed up passport control at airports, verifying identities for numerous purposes.
Feb 17, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Faces can unlock smartphones, provide access to a secure building, and speed up passport control at airports, verifying identities for numerous purposes.
Feb 17, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Can you develop a vehicle that can drive both cooperatively, that is, in a column with others, and autonomously? This is the central question of the research program i-Cave, which started in 2015. Now, five years later, the ...
Nov 5, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
With a global impetus toward utilizing more renewable energy sources, wind presents a promising, increasingly tapped resource. Despite the many technological advancements made in upgrading wind-powered systems, a systematic ...
May 25, 2021
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Engineering
Dutch cress grower Rob Baan has enlisted high-tech helpers to tackle a pest in his greenhouses: palm-sized drones seek and destroy moths that produce caterpillars that can chew up his crops.
Mar 7, 2021
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Robotics
Imagine you are playing an immersive game in which you are dropped into an unknown landscape with a directive to find a certain location. To advance forward in the game, you must also map the terrain so that you can then ...
Feb 15, 2021
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Business
In a quiet experiment of just two weeks, China provided millions of people access to long-forbidden foreign websites like YouTube and Instagram. The trial appears to signal the Communist government is moving toward giving ...
Oct 13, 2020
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Internet
In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a reality. It has helped automatize our homes, healthcare and industrial manufacturing, to mention just a few application areas. In the home environment, this can mean ...
May 27, 2020
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Automotive
"Safety First for Automated Driving" has been compiled by 11 authors representing automotive and mobility industry thought leadership.
Robotics
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Facebook AI Research have recently developed a new approach for robot navigation in unknown environments. Their approach, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, combines model-based control ...