Helping visually impaired children to 'feel' the universe
A University of Portsmouth project is helping blind and visually impaired children to 'feel' the universe.
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Novel system mimics focus activity of the human eye
With aging comes deteriorating vision. At SIGGRAPH 2018, attendees will have the chance to test a new computational system that effectively mimics the natural way the human eye corrects focus, specifically while viewing objects ...
Engineering
Jun 12, 2018
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New development in contact lenses for red-green color blindness using simple dye
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a contact lens that may help people with colour blindness simply by using a low cost dye, according to research published today (26 April 2018) in the journal Advanced ...
Materials Science
Apr 27, 2018
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Want computers to see better in the real world? Train them in virtual reality
Scientists have developed a new way to improve how computers "see" and "understand" objects in the real world by training the computers' visual systems in a virtual environment.
Computer Sciences
Apr 11, 2018
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Exotic material exhibits an optical response in enormous disproportion to the stimulus
No earlier theory had envisioned that the responses would be so large! Scientists "poked" three crystals with pulses of light. Unexpectedly, the crystals exhibited the largest nonlinear optical response of any known crystal. ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 21, 2018
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Depth-sensing imaging system can peer through fog
MIT researchers have developed a system that can produce images of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human vision can't penetrate it. It can also gauge the objects' distance.
Engineering
Mar 21, 2018
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Studying the visual recognition abilities of rodents
The visual process that allows humans to recognize the gender or emotional state of another person is very sophisticated. Until recently, only primates were believed able to perform such complex operations as object recognition. ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2018
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'Spectacular' finding: New 3-D vision discovered in praying mantis
Miniature glasses have revealed a new form of 3D vision in praying mantises that could lead to simpler visual processing for robots.
Plants & Animals
Feb 8, 2018
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Using Hawkeye from the Avengers to communicate on the eye
Pop culture figures like Iron Man, Captain America and Hawkeye can provide a unique and engaging platform for the communication of difficult scientific concepts. In the classroom, these characters can be used to communicate ...
Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2018
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Engineers invent tiny vision processing chip for ultra-small smart vision systems and IoT applications
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel microchip named EQSCALE that can capture visual details from video frames with extremely low power consumption. The video feature ...
Engineering
Jan 19, 2018
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