News tagged with vision technology

Piecing together the priceless 'Cairo Genizah'

A well-known collection of historical texts, the Cairo Genizah is one of the most valuable sources of primary documents for medieval historians and religious scholars. The 350,000 fragments found in the Genizah ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Webb telescope technologies already helping human eyes

Even while construction of the James Webb Space Telescope is underway on the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory, its technologies are already proving useful to human eye health here on ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Google buys computer vision startup 'PittPatt'

Google on Monday said it has bought a computer vision startup spun out of the robotics institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Technology / Business

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Android phones to pit vampires against slayers

Facial recognition startup Viewdle on Wednesday began letting Android smartphone users see which of the people around them are vampires and which are vampire slayers.

Technology / Software

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Startup creates a biologically inspired picture search engine

(PhysOrg.com) -- We all like to get the best deal possible for the things that we buy but you do not always have the time to go from shop to shop in order to find what you want. Luckily, there is a search ...

Technology / Software

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 weblog

Genius of Einstein, Fourier key to new humanlike computer vision

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new techniques for computer-vision technology mimic how humans perceive three-dimensional shapes by instantly recognizing objects no matter how they are twisted or bent, an advance that ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

10.69 seconds: Robot Ruby breaks Rubik's record (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's fastest Rubik's Cube-solving robot has been developed by students at Swinburne University of Technology.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Pioneer previews integrated floating image display technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pioneer has recently conducted a demonstration of its floating image display technology, which is being called Floating Vision, that allows for a small sized 3D floating screen to be projected ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

Piracy technology to revolutionise market research in cinema

Experts from the University of the West of England, UK, are teaming up with Aralia Systems Ltd, a specialist security company, to take cinema piracy detection technology forward and develop software systems ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new system for locating and capturing satellites in space

Spanish scientists at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have developed a new system for docking and capturing space satellites based on robotics and computer vision technology to autonomously guide a space ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Raytheon unveils Scorpion helmet technology

(AP) -- As the desert landscape unfolds ahead, the jet fighter pilot glances to his right. Spotting an enemy target, a sensor attached to his helmet relays the information straight back to his flight controls, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Italy to China in driverless vehicles

(AP) -- It's a modern-day version of Marco Polo's journey halfway around the world - but is anyone at the controls?

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Another dimension to 3-D TVs: Health risks

Teens have been known to play video games until they're glassy-eyed.

Technology / Other

created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Machine vision for hot surface automatic inspection

TECNALIA Technological Corporation is developing an innovative application for the automatic inspection of hot steel surfaces, based on Machine Vision technologies that enhance quality control in hot rolling mill processes.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shining light on diabetes-related blindness

A group of scientists in California is trying to develop a cheaper, less invasive way to spot the early stages of retinal damage from diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in American adults, before it leads ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0