News tagged with visual computer

Scientists design indoor navigation system for blind

University of Nevada, Reno computer science engineering team Kostas Bekris and Eelke Folmer presented their indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments at two national conferences in the past ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Can a machine tell when you're lying? Research suggests the answer is 'yes'

Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for clues that someone is telling a high-stakes lie, UB computer scientists are exploring whether machines can also read the visual cues that give away deceit.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

'Rock Vibe' brings electronic music game to blind

Bridging a divide between sighted and blind gamers, University of California, Santa Cruz graduate Rupa Dhillon has created a version of the musical rhythm "Rock Band" game that everyone can play.

Technology / Software

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Internet service prevents cable tangle in presentations at conferences

To connect a laptop to an additional monitor, projector or even to a monitor wall, a special cable was required, until now. Researchers of the Saarland University's Intel Visual Computing Institute overcome ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Interactive 3-D graphical objects as an integral part of online shops

When customers visit an online shop, they want to see all parts of a product; they want to enlarge it, or visualize adjusting single elements. Until now, web developers have been dealing with a multiplicity ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Georgia Tech develops braille-like texting app (w/ video)

Imagine if smartphone and tablet users could text a note under the table during a meeting without anyone being the wiser. Mobile gadget users might also be enabled to text while walking, watching TV or socializing ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor to power Audi's next-gen infotainment and digital instrument clusters

NVIDIA announced that Audi AG has selected the NVIDIA Tegra 3 mobile processor to power in-vehicle infotainment systems -- as well as new digital instrument clusters that replace traditional dashboard gauges ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Sandia cyber project looks to help IT professionals with complex DNS vulnerabilities

Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Casey Deccio has developed a visualization tool known as DNSViz to help network administrators within the federal government and global IT community better understand ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team creates computerized method for matching images in photos, paintings, sketches

Computers can mimic the human ability to find visually similar images, such as photographs of a fountain in summer and in winter, or a photograph and a painting of the same cathedral, by using a technique that analyzes the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Harvard group takes complexity out of video face replacement (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- From Facebook to YouTube to on the fly film projects, the presentation of content that entertains or instructs or both draws on visual tools, ranging from simple to complex. Novice as well ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Kinecthesia: Students hack Kinect to help visually impaired (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite amazing advances in computers and cameras, people with serious visual impairments are often aided with the most basic technology imaginable: a cane.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

To diagnose heart disease, visualization experts recommend a simpler approach

A team of computer scientists, physicists, and physicians at Harvard have developed a simple yet powerful method of visualizing human arteries that may result in more accurate diagnoses of atherosclerosis ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Boosting creativity with interactive technology

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg show that interactive technology generates new ways of seeing, showing and creating. The new technology boosts creativity.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 18

NTU unveils newest 3-D technologies for real-world applications

Point your mobile phone camera at a building and it will display the building's history, elaborate on its architecture and even highlight dignitaries who have visited it before.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Packing the ions: Discovery boosts supercapacitor energy storage

Flat is in the eye of the beholder. When you're talking about nanomaterials, however, that eye is pretty much useless unless it's looking through an electron microscope or at a computer visualization. Yet ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 15 | with audio podcast