Building a precise assistive-feeding robot that can handle any meal
Eating a meal involves multiple precise movements to bring food from plate to mouth.
Apr 12, 2023
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News tagged with vision systems
Computer Sciences
Designing a 'neural puppeteer' to recognize skeletal nodes
Imagine for a moment, that we are on a safari watching a giraffe graze. After looking away for a second, we then see the animal lower its head and sit down. But, we wonder, what happened in the meantime? Computer scientists ...
Mar 8, 2023
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Business
Is there a way to pay content creators whose work is used to train AI? Yes, but it's not foolproof
Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery, or theft? Perhaps it comes down to the imitator.
Feb 28, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Few-shot learning AI accurately 'senses' home appliances
NIALM (Non-Intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring) can "sense" appliances using electrical power. NIALM is used in homes and small buildings. For this, NIALM can require hundreds of labeled power signal images from each appliance ...
Nov 21, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Human vision—a challenge for AI
Achieving diversity in human vision is one of the major challenges for AI research. In the vast majority of cases, we are better than machines at understanding the world around us. But machines are catching up—slowly but ...
Oct 22, 2022
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Software
Exploring how people adapt to virtual-reality-induced cybersickness
While virtual reality has been around for decades, a combination of higher-resolution graphics, smoother tracking of the user's movements and cheaper, sleeker headsets has propelled the immersive technology into arenas beyond ...
Aug 16, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Centralized traffic algorithms to help drivers avoid congestion
Delivering sustainability in traffic is no easy feat. Could software that globally coordinates cars to avoid traffic jams and congestion be the answer?
Aug 2, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
Novel lighting system designed for machine vision module of agricultural robots
A novel camera system using active lighting devised by Penn State researchers may be a crucial step in developing machine vision systems that allow robotic devices to more clearly "see" the agricultural targets with which ...
Oct 12, 2021
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Engineering
Emerging robotics technology may lead to better buildings in less time
Emerging robotics technology may soon help construction companies and contractors create buildings in less time at higher quality and at lower costs.
Feb 10, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial Intelligence also has illusory perceptions
Researchers from the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) of the University of Valencia and the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have shown that convolutional ...
Oct 19, 2020
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