News tagged with visual information processing

Evolutionary bestseller in image processing

The eye is not just a lens that takes pictures and converts them into electrical signals. As with all vertebrates, nerve cells in the human eye separate an image into different image channels once it has been ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

What drives brain changes in macular degeneration?

In macular degeneration, the most common form of adult blindness, patients progressively lose vision in the center of their visual field, thereby depriving the corresponding part of the visual cortex of input. Previously, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Keeping up with embryogenesis: New microscope lets users track individual cells as they move, divide

(Medical Xpress) -- The transformation of a fertilized egg into a functioning animal requires thousands of cell divisions and intricate rearrangements of those cells. That process is captured with unprecedented ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MIT, Intel unveil new initiatives addressing 'big data'

MIT has been selected from among 55 institutions that submitted 157 proposals to host a new Intel research center that will concentrate on what’s come to be called “big data” -- new techniques ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The need for speed

Coherent Raman scattering methods have one key advantage over spontaneous Raman microscopy: speed. The (sub-)microsecond pixel dwell times offered by narrowband CRS imaging methods have initiated a new era ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers create glasses that indicate obstacles to patients with visual handicaps

People with moderate visual impairment, particularly those who have difficulty perceiving the full extent of their surroundings, could use the ingenious device that these UC3M scientists have created. “This ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What's the best irrigation canal liner?

There are an estimated 1.2 million acres of agricultural land in Texas irrigated via canals, and many are in need of renovation, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

Automated image analysis arises from handcraft and machine learning

The amount of visual information increases with tremendous speed. The archives of television networks, image bank databases and social media in the web are all bursting with billions of pictures – and more is produced ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study reveals trade patterns for crucial substance played key role in Maya collapse

Shifts in exchange patterns provide a new perspective on the fall of inland Maya centers in Mesoamerica approximately 1,000 years ago. This major historical process, sometimes referred to as the "Maya collapse" has puzzled ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MIT biologist relishes the challenge of picking apart the cell's most complex structure

One of the most important structures in a cell is the nuclear pore complex — a tiny yet complicated channel through which information flows in and out of the cell’s nucleus, directing all other cell ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

NASA Goddard delivers magnetometers for next mission to Mars

Magnetometers built by scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission have been delivered to the University ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Saving lives with Google Maps -- disaster-tracking software developed by Abertay student

Emergency responses to natural disasters could be coordinated more quickly and save lives thanks to new software developed at the University of Abertay Dundee.

Technology / Software

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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