News tagged with human vision

Visualization provides decision-makers with the big picture

The human brain is not very well-equipped for analysing multidimensional data. In his doctoral dissertation, Mikko Berg, M.Sc. (Tech.) examined how graphical visualizations can help people to understand complex data. One ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Terminator-style info-vision takes step towards reality

The streaming of real-time information across your field of vision is a step closer to reality with the development of a prototype contact lens that could potentially provide the wearer with hands-free information ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Scientists solve mystery of the eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have a good overall understanding of human vision: when light enters our eyes, it is focused by the lens and strikes the retina in the back of the eye. The light causes some of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (64) | comments 14 | with audio podcast feature

Webb telescope technologies already helping human eyes

Even while construction of the James Webb Space Telescope is underway on the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory, its technologies are already proving useful to human eye health here on ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New invisibility cloak hides objects from human view

For the first time, scientists have devised an invisibility cloak material that hides objects from detection using light that is visible to humans. The new device is a leap forward in cloaking materials, according to a report ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Making holograms look more real

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although human vision is capable of perceiving objects in three dimensions (3D), we spend much of our day looking at two-dimensional screens. The latest televisions and monitors can trick ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Startup creates a biologically inspired picture search engine

(PhysOrg.com) -- We all like to get the best deal possible for the things that we buy but you do not always have the time to go from shop to shop in order to find what you want. Luckily, there is a search ...

Technology / Software

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 weblog

First patients enroll in US stem cell trials on blindness

The first clinical trials that examine the use of stem cells to treat two forms of blindness are ready to begin now that patients have been enrolled, a US company announced on Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Reindeer see a weird and wonderful world of ultraviolet light

Researchers have discovered that the ultraviolet (UV) light that causes the temporary but painful condition of snow blindness in humans is life-saving for reindeer in the arctic.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Feds OK 2nd human study of embryonic stem cells

(AP) -- For only the second time, the U.S. government has approved a test in people of a treatment using embryonic stem cells - this time for a rare disease that causes serious vision loss.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Scientists discover 600 million-year-old origins of vision

By studying the hydra, a member of an ancient group of sea creatures that is still flourishing, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a discovery in understanding the origins of human vision. The finding ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Do computers understand art?

A team of researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute in Germany has shown that some mathematical algorithms provide clues about the artistic style of a painting. The composition ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Vision Revolution: Eyes Are the Source of Human 'Superpowers'

For Mark Changizi, it’s all in the eyes.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (19) | comments 20

Human eye inspires advance in computer vision (w/Video)

Inspired by the behavior of the human eye, Boston College computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with nearly double the accuracy and 10 times ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Protein-protein interaction explains vision loss in genetic diseases

The mystery of genetic disease is only partially solved with the identification of a mutated gene. Often, the pattern of disease - the features or disorders associated with it - vary in type and severity among those who are ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1