The driving school for computers
In order to generate realistic images of road signs, researchers pit two algorithms against each other.
Oct 24, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
Predicting fruit harvest with drones and artificial intelligence
Outfield Technologies is a Cambridge-based agri-tech start-up company which uses drones and artificial intelligence, to help fruit growers maximise their harvest from orchard crops.
Oct 17, 2019
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Security
Preventing manipulation in automated face recognition
From unlocking smartphones to speeding up airport security checks: the use of automated face recognition for personal identification continues to grow. But this authentication method is vulnerable to morphing attacks: criminals ...
Oct 01, 2019
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Amazon improves face analysis tech, adds fear
Amazon's image recognition software is now able to detect fear. Amazon Web Services announced this as part of an update note about its facial recognition software, Rekognition.
Aug 15, 2019 weblog
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A new method for understanding ancient coin images
Two researchers at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, have recently developed a new machine learning-based method for understanding images of ancient coins. Their study, pre-published on arXiv applies computer vision ...
Mar 18, 2019 feature
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Engineering
New AI camera could revolutionize autonomous vehicles
The image recognition technology that underlies today's autonomous cars and aerial drones depends on artificial intelligence: the computers essentially teach themselves to recognize objects like a dog, a pedestrian crossing ...
Aug 17, 2018
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Computer Sciences
When all the world's a toaster, according to tricked AI
Image recognition technology can be duped by psychedelic stickers created by a Google team.
Jan 05, 2018 weblog
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Computer Sciences
DeepVariant: Tool to call out variants in sequencing data goes open source
(Tech Xplore)—Finding cats? That's old school. The AI that had been created by Google researchers Mark DePristo and Ryan Poplin built to recognize images of cats and dogs is, in Google Curiosity time, so yesterday. It's ...
Dec 11, 2017 weblog
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Engineering
Developing a tool to increase mobility for the blind
People with vision impairments face a perpetual problem: maneuvering through a world filled with obstacles and hazards. Meet Good Vibrations, a team of CU Boulder electrical engineering students who created Pulse, a product ...
Oct 26, 2017
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Future smartwatches could sense hand movement using ultrasound imaging
New research has shown future wearable devices, such as smartwatches, could use ultrasound imaging to sense hand gestures.
Oct 11, 2017
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A day at the museum with Smartify app: Get comments, collect favorites
What is Smartify? A hint is there if you go up on their website, where you see people darting around a museum. Nice. They are not wearing clunky headphones and are not restricted to a circle of tourists where they have to ...
Mar 07, 2017 weblog
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Age is just a number but Amazon AI is after some smart estimates
(Tech Xplore)—Tech sites are talking about an Amazon tool to estimate a person's age powered by the giant's Rekognition platform.
Feb 13, 2017 weblog
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The Roll helps to find the right photo shots
(Phys.org)—There you are passing time on a subway with a stalled train in the middle of a tunnel and no comforting announcement saying why.
May 16, 2016 weblog
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Researchers design a type of Turing test for computer vision
A small team of researchers has developed a possible means for creating a Turing test for computer vision. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Donald Geman, Neil Hallonquist and Laurent ...
Mar 10, 2015 report
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