News tagged with science vision
Visualization provides decision-makers with the big picture
The human brain is not very well-equipped for analysing multidimensional data. In his doctoral dissertation, Mikko Berg, M.Sc. (Tech.) examined how graphical visualizations can help people to understand complex data. One ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 11, 2012 |
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The MIRI infrared instrument has two faces
A short new video takes viewers behind the scenes with the MIRI or the Mid-Infrared Instrument that will fly on-board NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. MIRI is a state-of-the-art infrared instrument that ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Football analysis leads to advance in artificial intelligence
Computer scientists in the field of artificial intelligence have made an important advance that blends computer vision, machine learning and automated planning, and created a new system that may improve everything ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 18, 2011 |
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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
May 31, 2011 |
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Researchers use innovative data collection method -- A video by Dutch band C-Mon & Kypski
Researchers at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have adopted an innovative data collection method for their latest work in the area of computer vision—a music video created by the Dutch ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 17, 2011 |
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Computer vision tools to aid medical research
(PhysOrg.com) -- Boris Babenko believes there are huge opportunities for integrating computer science, and in particular computer vision, into health care and medical research, making life easier for researchers, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Better than the human eye
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant feature ...
Jan 17, 2011 |
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Finding our color center
The colorful Australian film Strictly Ballroom has been used in a breakthrough scientific experiment to locate the colour processing center in the human brain.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Infants' peripheral vision blurry
Our eyes are windows to the world, but what is the visual experience of infants? We know that infant vision tends to be blurrier than adults'. Now researchers from UC Davis, UC Berkeley and Stanford University have discovered ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Computer Scientists Build Pedestrian Remover
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine encountering leashed dogs without dog walkers, or shoes filled just with ankles - when scoping out potential apartments using Google Street View. These are the sorts of visual hiccups ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Cellular mechanical forces may initiate angiogenesis
Pericytes, the contractile cells surrounding capillaries, may use mechanical forces to initiate angiogenesis, the "sprouting" of new blood vessels, according to researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Scientists shed new light on how retina's hardware is used in color vision
Biologists at New York University and the University of Wurzburg have identified, in greater detail, how the retina's cellular hardware is used in color preference. The findings, published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Double agent: Glial cells can protect or kill neurons, vision
Scientists have identified a double agent in the eye that, once triggered, can morph from neuron protector to neuron killer. The discovery has significant health implications since the neurons killed through ...
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Fish vision discovery makes waves in natural selection
Emory University researchers have identified the first fish known to have switched from ultraviolet vision to violet vision, or the ability to see blue light. The discovery is also the first example of an ...
Oct 16, 2009 |
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The Vision Revolution: Eyes Are the Source of Human 'Superpowers'
For Mark Changizi, it’s all in the eyes.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 03, 2009 |
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