News tagged with recognition

US Air Force connects 1,760 PlayStation 3's to build supercomputer

(PhysOrg.com) -- About the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world right now is the US Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) newest system, which has a core made of 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (49) | comments 34 | with audio podcast weblog

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

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

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

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

The iCub robot learns archery

(PhysOrg.com) -- The humanoid robot iCub has learned a new skill: archery. After being taught how to hold a bow and shoot an arrow, it learned for itself how to improve its aim, and was so successful it could ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Researchers Build Artificial Immune System to Solve Computational Problems

(PhysOrg.com) -- By mimicking the way that a living body acquires immunity to disease through vaccination, researchers have designed an artificial immune system to solve optimization problems more effectively ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0 feature

Researcher identifies just 8 patterns as the cause of all humor

Evolutionary theorist Alastair Clarke has today published details of eight patterns he claims to be the basis of all the humour that has ever been imagined or expressed, regardless of civilization, culture or personal taste.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 11

Mouseless, the 'invisible' computer mouse (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mouseless is a computer mouse that allows you to interact with a computer with a mouse in the same way as usual - except that there is no mouse hardware. The researchers call it an "invisible ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 26 | with audio podcast report

Google turns Android smartphones into interpreters

Google on Wednesday began turning Android-powered smartphones into interpreters with experimental software that lets the handsets translate conversations in real time.

Technology / Software

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 12

Japanese Robot/Humanoid Innovations Update: Mankind's Best New Friend is Getting Better (Videos)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The combined efforts of the University of Tokyo with private sector partners and the Information and Robot Technology Research Technology Initiative have moved one-step closer to creating ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2 weblog

Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training

For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Mom's voice plays special role in activating newborn's brain

A mother's voice will preferentially activate the parts of the brain responsible for language learning, say researchers from the University of Montreal and the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre. ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Fashion robot to hit Japan catwalk

Japanese researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down a Tokyo catwalk.

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Google launches next phase of voice-recognition project

Google on Tuesday switched on a new program that will dramatically improve the accuracy of its speech recognition service, which allows people to use verbal commands to search the Internet, send an e-mail ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 12

Breaking the language barrier: NIST tests language translation devices for US troops

At dusk, a car stops at a checkpoint in Afghanistan. It is a tense moment for all. Because an interpreter is not available, U.S. Marines use hand gestures to ask the driver to step out of the car and open ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast