News tagged with object recognition system

Seeing the forest for the trees: Object recognition system breaks images into ever smaller parts

Object recognition is one of the core topics in computer vision research: After all, a computer that can see isn't much use if it has no idea what it's looking at. Researchers at MIT, working with colleagues ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Context is ev ... well, something, anyway

Today, computers can't reliably identify the objects in digital images. But if they could, they could comb through hours of video for the two or three minutes that a viewer might be interested in, or perform ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast




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New math model can help computers avoid communication breakdowns

Language is so much more than a string of words. To understand what someone means, you need context.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Revolutionary technology enables objects to know how they are being touched (w/ Video)

A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips and a chair that adjusts room lighting based on recognizing if a user is ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Investments in physics technology and education are key to the future success of medicine

Physics is fundamental to many of the technologies used across medicine today, yet it is often forgotten -- and certainly neglected -- that physics has made important contributions to health ever since the birth of medicine ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Pirates, beware: Navy's smart robocopters will spy you in the crowd

Navy unmanned aircraft will be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels when an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-funded sensor starts airborne tests this summer, officials said April 5.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA develops Augmented Reality headset for commercial pilots

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia has been hard at work developing an Augmented Reality headset for use by commercial pilots to help reduce airline accidents due to poor weather ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

O, Pioneers! (part 2): The derelicts of space

Before the Pioneer 11 spacecraft could venture beyond our solar system, it had to pass through the rings of Saturn. At the time, the rings were not well characterized and some thought the spacecraft could ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Making surveillance cameras more efficient

A University of California, Riverside professor has recently co-authored a book about his surveillance camera research that has applications in everything from homeland security, environmental monitoring and home monitoring.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Intelligent design: UCI’s new and retrofitted Smart Labs can cut energy use by half

If research labs account for two-thirds of a campus’s carbon footprint, it doesn’t take an Einstein to target them for energy savings. Where the genius comes in is figuring out how to do it, and ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new system of stereo cameras detects pedestrians from within the car

A team of German researchers, with the help of a lecturer at the University of Alcalá (UAH, Spain), has developed a system that locates pedestrians in front of the vehicle using artificial vision. Soon ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tsunami debris survey launched northwest of Midway

The tsunami that followed on the heels of the March 11, 2011, earthquake in Japan produced as much as 25 million tons of debris. Much of this debris was swept into the ocean. What stayed afloat drifted apart ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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