Tag: Network

Facial performance capture, a key component of visual effects for movies and computer games, can be obtained using just a single camera with a new methodology developed by Disney Research.

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering In December 2015, Russian hackers allegedly pummeled Ukraine’s power grid, disrupting the flow of electricity for nearly a quarter-million Ukrainians.

Credit: Artem Oleshko/Shutterstock Following the old saying that “knowledge is power”, companies are seeking to infer increasingly intimate properties about their customers as a way to gain an edge over

Concerns that the process of U.S. congressional redistricting may be politically biased have fueled many debates, but a team of University of Illinois computer scientists and engineers has developed a

Programmers from ITMO University created a computer algorithm that guides tourists to places of interest that are most popular with locals based on their Instagram posts. To test the algorithm,

Retinal and neuronal segmentation images (right column) can be produced from empirical two-dimensional datasets (left column) thanks to a new computational approach. Credit: IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from Ref 1.

The new method is able to reconstruct biological processes using image data. Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have developed a new method for reconstructing continuous

A view from inside the MDC’s data center, with racks of high performance computers. Credit: MDC Experiments increasingly rely on high-performance computing software. Differences in software environments can cause problems

Words are more than their dictionary definition. Credit: Amir Ridhwan/Shutterstock The words “extreme”,”extremist” and “extremism” carry so many connotations these days – far more than a basic dictionary definition could

Through automatically generated entities and their relationships, computers can answer complex search queries. Credit: MPI Almost every word has more than one meaning. Modern search engines solve this problem using

Credit: University of St Andrews Researchers at the University of St Andrews have thrown down the gauntlet to computer programmers to find a solution to a “simple” chess puzzle which

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks – a form of

Credit: IBM As we look to get from point A to point B, people increasingly have options that go beyond the typical bus or taxi. Various flavours of ride and

Combining the intuition of humans with the impartiality of computers could improve decision-making for organizations, eventually leading to lower costs and better profits, according to a team of researchers. In

If disaster ever struck, Joe Fleischmann could keep the lights, refrigerator and big-screen TV running in his Orange County home, even if the power company went dark. Article source: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mimicking-reflexive-ability-animal-visual.html