News tagged with photographic images

You shoot and Croppola composes

We envy photographers who are experts at composing beautiful pictures and would like to achieve the same result. Croppola is a user-friendly online tool that helps photo-lovers to make the most of their pictures.

Technology / Software

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

iPhone attachment captures panoramic video

Most iPhone developers are focused on creating software applications for the hip smartphones from Apple.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Team creates computerized method for matching images in photos, paintings, sketches

Computers can mimic the human ability to find visually similar images, such as photographs of a fountain in summer and in winter, or a photograph and a painting of the same cathedral, by using a technique that analyzes the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Google Maps taking viewers inside shops

Google's free online map service is letting shops, gyms, restaurants and other small businesses provide viewers glimpses of what lies behind facades seen on Street View.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Camera lets people shoot first, focus later

Startup Lytro unveiled a camera that lets people adjust the focus on photos after they take them.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Local environs explained, and marketed, in a click

An innovative application for mobile phones that identifies places and objects by comparing photographs of them with reference images in a remote database will not only provide unprecedented amounts of information ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New technology to predict future appearance

A Concordia graduate student has designed a promising computer program that could serve as a new tool in missing-child investigations and matters of national security. Khoa Luu has developed a more effective computer-based ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way

Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3

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

Darwin complicit in manipulating photos

When Darwin came to publish The Expression of the Emotions in 1872, he employed images made by five photographers to illustrate the wide variation in human facial expressions. A new study of the way that two of these phot ...

Biology / Other

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tiny cameras have big market

Having earned a reputation helping other companies make smaller and faster semiconductors, San Jose-based Tessera now hopes to use its miniature camera technology to revolutionize how a wide array of gadgets interact with ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Studying the female form: Math could lead to sexier lingerie, safer labcoats

Researchers in Japan have turned to mathematics to build a computerized 3D model of the female trunk that could help lingerie and other clothes designers make more sensuous, comfortable, and better fitting product ranges.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Getty Images in deal to distribute Flickr photos

Getty Images and Yahoo! on Wednesday announced a deal which the digital media company will distribute pictures shared at Yahoo!'s Flickr website.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0