News tagged with object recognition

Locate and guide function for the human symbiotic robot 'EMIEW2'

Hitachi announced the addition of a new feature to the human symbiotic robot, EMIEW2, where when asked the location of an object, is now able to smoothly guide the enquirer to the location of the object after ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Go fish! Scientist trains goldfish for object perception research (w/ video)

The fictitious storybook character Dr. Doolittle was known for talking with animals.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

NRL researchers produce award-winning AI video

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists recently won the "Best Educational Video" award at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's (AAAI) annual conference held in San Francisco.

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

Algorithm for identifying object boundaries in digital images 50,000 times more efficient than predecessor

Determining the boundaries of objects is one of the central problems in computer vision. It's something humans do with ease: We glance out the window and immediately see cars as distinct from the sidewalk ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

New mathematical model of brain information processing predicts some of vision peculiarities

The human retina -- the part of the eye that converts incoming light into electrochemical signals -- has about 100 million light-sensitive cells. So retinal images contain a huge amount of data. High-level ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New software brings facial-recognition technology to mobile phones (w/ Video)

Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed software for mobile phones that can track your facial features in real-time. Eventually it will be able to tell who the user is, where they are looking and even how ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Neuroscientists reveal how the brain learns to recognize objects

(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how the brain recognizes objects is a central challenge for understanding human vision, and for designing artificial vision systems. (No computer system comes close to human ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

Epson Toyocom Develops the World's Smallest Single Package 6-Axis Sensor

Epson Toyocom Corporation, the leader in crystal devices, today announced the development of the AH-6100LR, the world's smallest 6-axis sensor. This low-noise, low-power product comprises a 3-axis QMEMS quartz ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spacecraft dockings improve car assembly

(PhysOrg.com) -- The next car comes down the conveyor belt ready for the dashboard to be added. Speed and position are controlled as if it were a spacecraft docking automatically with the International Space ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Shape perception in brain develops by itself

Despite minimal exposure to the regular geometric objects found in developed countries, African tribal people perceive shapes as well as westerners, according to a new study.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects

(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images

(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0