Consumer & Gadgets
Shopping for groceries is a common activity for many of us, but for visually impaired people, identifying grocery items can be daunting. A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's School of Computing ...
Feb 5, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
A team of researchers from Mass Eye and Ear have developed a micro-navigation smartphone app to provide assistance to those who are blind or visually impaired (BVI) in finding their bus stops, and a new study published in ...
Jan 29, 2024
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Computer Sciences
When combating complex problems like illegal poaching and human trafficking, efficient yet broad geospatial search tools can provide critical assistance in finding and stopping the activity. A visual active search (VAS) framework ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Imagine you are scrolling through the photos on your phone and you come across an image that at first you can't recognize. It looks like maybe something fuzzy on the couch; could it be a pillow or a coat? After a couple of ...
Dec 15, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023—it was a long time coming yet has a long way to go for the technology to match people's science fiction fantasies of human-like machines.
Dec 14, 2023
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Computer Sciences
In geospatial exploration, the quest for efficient identification of regions of interest has recently taken a leap forward with visual active search (VAS). This modeling framework uses visual cues to guide exploration with ...
Dec 14, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people most in need are. In many countries, this is often done with household surveys. But these are usually infrequent and cover limited locations.
Nov 28, 2023
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Engineering
Imagine yourself on a beautiful beach. You're likely visualizing sand and sea but also hearing a symphony of wind gusting, waves crashing and gulls cawing. In this scene—as well as in urban settings with neighbors talking, ...
Nov 22, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Data is the new soil, and in this fertile new ground, MIT researchers are planting more than just pixels. By using synthetic images to train machine learning models, a team of scientists recently surpassed results obtained ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Computer Sciences
In the last year, large language models (LLMs) have come into prominence for boasting a suite of ever-expanding capabilities including text generation, image production, and, more recently, highly descriptive image analysis. ...
Nov 17, 2023
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