News tagged with recognition
Article on memory may make a lasting impression, depending on theta phase lock
They say there's only one chance to make a first impression, but what makes that memory last?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Everyone looks the same - when you drink
(PhysOrg.com) -- People are much better at recognising faces of their own racial group than those of different races, but a new study suggests that drinking alcohol almost eliminates that bias.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 19, 2010 |
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Wolfram Alpha answer engine best of show at SXSW
A new Wolfram Alpha search engine that delivers factual answers to online queries instead of links to Web pages won top honors late Sunday at the South By South West (SXSW) awards ceremony.
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Desert ants perceive odor maps in stereo and use this information for navigation
Desert ants are well-known for their remarkable orientation: they use a compass along with a step counter and visible landmarks to locate their nest. After researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical ...
Mar 09, 2010 |
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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
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Chatty robots, flying alarm clocks at top high-tech fair
Robots that teach Chinese, computers controlled by moving the eyes and flying alarm clocks were among the weird and wonderful gadgets wowing crowds Wednesday at the world's top high-tech fair.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Watching curvaceous women feels like drugs to men: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been known that men find an "hourglass" figure the most attractive shape for the female body, and now scientists have found out why.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 25, 2010 |
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An emotion detector for baby
Baby monitors of the future could translate infant cries, so that parents will know for certain whether their child is sleepy, hungry, needing a change, or in pain. Japanese scientists report details of a statistical computer ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 24, 2010 |
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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 ...
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Genes responsible for ability to recognize faces
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to recognise faces is largely determined by your genes, according to new research at UCL (University College London).
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Sketch-interpreting software
(PhysOrg.com) -- Science writers know as well as anyone how much information a diagram can contain. We often labor to express in words what a researcher was able to convey in a single image. But while a drawing ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 19, 2010 |
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Google developing a translator for smartphones
(PhysOrg.com) -- Google is developing a translator for its Android smartphones that aims to almost instantly translate from one spoken language to another during phone calls.
Feb 09, 2010 |
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NEC's Facial Recognition Technology Achieves First Place in the Still-Face Dataset
Japan's NEC Corp. announced today that its face recognition technologies ranked number one in the Still-Face Dataset of the Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC) carried out by the National Institute of Standards and ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Japan's NTT DoCoMo to launch Xperia smart phone
Japan's top mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. Thursday said it will launch Sony Ericsson's Xperia smart phone in April, in a direct challenge to heavyweight Apple's iPhone handsets.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 21, 2010 |
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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 ...
Jan 20, 2010 |
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