News tagged with visual
Concordia's 3-D innovation revolutionizes visual art
What happens when visual art comes into close contact with computer science? Stereoscopic magic.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
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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 ...
May 28, 2012 |
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Stunning visualization of 56 years of tornadoes in the US
It’s a wonder of nature, baby. Using information from data.gov, tech blogger John Nelson has created this spectacular image of tornado paths in the US over a 56 year period. The graphic categorizes th ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2012 |
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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 ...
May 29, 2012 |
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The living fossils of brain evolution
(Phys.org) -- In the course of its evolution, the architecture of the mouse brain may have barely changed. Similar to the tiny ancestors of modern mammals that lived about 80 million years ago, nerve cells ...
May 23, 2012 |
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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 ...
May 18, 2012 |
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Nvidia shows off Kal-El -- new quad-core processing chip
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia, well known for its graphics chips, has made a pretty big statement by releasing a video on Youtube showing the capabilities of its new quad-core processing chip for smartphones and ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Calculating what's in the universe from the biggest color 3-D map
Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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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
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Mantis shrimp eye could improve high-definition DVDs, holographic technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- The eye of the peacock mantis shrimp has led an international team of researchers to develop a two-part waveplate that could improve CD, DVD, blu-ray and holographic technology, creating even ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jun 17, 2011 |
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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
May 24, 2012 |
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Parts of brain can switch functions: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 28, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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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
Nov 15, 2011 |
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