News tagged with image processing

Evolutionary bestseller in image processing

The eye is not just a lens that takes pictures and converts them into electrical signals. As with all vertebrates, nerve cells in the human eye separate an image into different image channels once it has been ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Adaptive headlamp system introduced

(PhysOrg.com) -- The independent industrial group Valeo, which is headquartered in France, has introduced a "BeamAtic" adaptive headlight system that enables drivers to keep their lights on high beam without ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Scientists find first physiological evidence of brain's response to inequality

The human brain is a big believer in equality -- and a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, has become the first to gather the images to prove ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Google Collaborates with D-Wave on Possible Quantum Image Search

(PhysOrg.com) -- Always on the cutting edge of new computing technologies, Google has recently announced that it is investigating the use of quantum computing schemes to achieve faster image recognition rates. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 4 weblog

Sony patent seeks to correct autostereoscopic blur

(Phys.org) -- Sony has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for a glasses-free 3-D display that will adjust the picture so that the user gets an optimal view no matter how far or close to the screen. In its application, “Stereoscopic Image Proces ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 13, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

High-speed CMOS sensors provide better images

Conventional CMOS image sensors are not suitable for low-light applications such as fluorescence, since large pixels arranged in a matrix do not support high readout speeds. A new optoelectronic component ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Security first: When a footstep is like a fingerprint

How a bare foot strikes the ground as one walks reveals your identity almost as well as a fingerprint, according to a study released Wednesday.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Bigger, faster superphones in 4G, 3D and dual-core

Every time you turn around nowadays there's another huge tech trade show, at which a bunch of new phones and tablets are announced.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Combined molecular study techniques reveal more about DNA proteins

Illinois researchers have combined two molecular imaging technologies to create an instrument with incredible sensitivity that provides new, detailed insight into dynamic molecular processes.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Minimizing communication between cores

In the mid-1990s, Matteo Frigo, a graduate student in the research group of computer-science professor Charles Leiserson (whose work was profiled in the previous installment in this series), developed a parallel version of a fast Fou ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Acupuncture changes brain's perception and processing of pain

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have captured pictures of the brain while patients experienced a pain stimulus with and without acupuncture to determine acupuncture's effect on how the brain ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Aging process revealed by lactate in the brain

Swedish researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown that they may be able to monitor the aging process in the brain, by using MRI technique to measure the brain lactic acid levels. Their findings suggest that the lactate ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

New analysis reveals clearer picture of brain's language areas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Language is a defining aspect of what makes us human. Although some brain regions are known to be associated with language, neuroscientists have had a surprisingly difficult time using brain ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

An artificial eye on your driving

With just a half second's notice, a driver can swerve to avoid a fatal accident or slam on the brakes to miss hitting a child running after a ball. But first, the driver must perceive the danger.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Don't I know you? Research sheds light on memorial retrieval

We have all had the embarrassing experience of seeing an acquaintance in an unfamiliar setting. We know we know them but can't recall who they are. But with the correct cues from conversation or context, something seems ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0