Engineering
Say what? Laser plasma balls that can talk? The Pentagon? How, and for what? The answer is that instead of beaming a flashing light or shouting over a loudspeaker to keep people away from sensitive areas, new technology is ...
Aug 03, 2019 weblog
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Machine learning & AI
Scientists at the U.S. Army's corporate research laboratory are developing a new algorithm that could improve image and audio identification for intelligence gathering on the battlefield.
Jul 31, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers at Stanford have recently explored the use of machine learning to measure the severity of depressive symptoms by analyzing people's spoken language and 3-D facial expressions. Their multi-model method, outlined ...
Dec 04, 2018 feature
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Robotics
Researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in South Korea have recently developed a neural network model that can generate sequences of co-speech gestures. Their model, trained on 52 hours ...
Nov 14, 2018 feature
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Robotics
An unconventional company called HumanMachine has recently devised a unique theatre production called Improbotics, which involves both human performers and machines. This is the latest of a series of projects and initiatives ...
Sep 20, 2018 feature
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Security
Could smartphone motion sensors be used by cybercriminals to record speech? It is a question that many academic and industry researchers are working to answer in order to ward off this kind of malicious use before it happens.
Jun 15, 2018
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Engineering
Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern University have developed a tiny, soft and wearable acoustic sensor that measures vibrations in the human body, allowing them to monitor human heart health ...
Nov 16, 2016
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Computer Sciences
(Tech Xplore)—This is for real. Human speech synthesis has reached a new high. Thanks to DeepMind, there is every indication that machines are getting quite good at sounding like humans.
Sep 12, 2016 weblog
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Computer Sciences
The term "artificial intelligence" (AI) was first used back in 1956 to describe the title of a workshop of scientists at Dartmouth, an Ivy League college in the United States.
Jun 13, 2016
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