Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Is this your sister?” That’s the kind of question asked by image-recognition systems, which are becoming increasingly prevalent in our everyday devices. They may
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Using virtual reality to catch a real ball
Credit: Disney Research Disney Research scientists have found innovative ways to enhance virtual experiences involving interactions with physical objects by showing how a person using a virtual reality system can
Using Big Data to analyse images and video better than the human brain
Training neural network for object recognition (a car with front lights) in action. Credit: Uni Research Computing Improving traffic safety, better health services and environmental benefits – Big Data experts
New computer software program excels at lip reading
Lips close-up. Credit: Shutterstock A new computer software program has the potential to lip-read more accurately than people and to help those with hearing loss, Oxford University researchers have found.
New computer software program excels at lip reading
Lips close-up. Credit: Shutterstock A new computer software program has the potential to lip-read more accurately than people and to help those with hearing loss, Oxford University researchers have found.
New computer software program excels at lip reading
Lips close-up. Credit: Shutterstock A new computer software program has the potential to lip-read more accurately than people and to help those with hearing loss, Oxford University researchers have found.
Algorithm automatically searches for a child’s most probable parents and generates family trees
Credit: Aalto University Aalto University doctoral student Eric Malmi has developed a family tree algorithm called AncestryAI. The algorithm looks for links between 5 million baptisms from the end of
Deep learning and stock trading
A study undertaken by researchers at the School of Business and Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has shown that computer programs that algorithms based on artificial intelligence are able to
Is reliable artificial intelligence possible?
Credit: ktsimage n the quest for reliable artificial intelligence, EPFL scientist Marcel Salathé argues that AI technology should be openly available. He will be discussing the topic at this year’s
Waiting to be sold: Researchers develop model to predict probability of home sales
Computer scientists from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have developed what they believe to be the first data-based answer to how long it will take for a house to sell. Credit:
IBM Watson-powered ‘virtual assistant’ to provide information and advice to people with arthritis
Credit: IBM Arthritis Research UK and IBM today announced the development of a Watson-powered ‘virtual personal assistant’ to provide information and advice to people living with arthritis. The charity has
New multi-device system for handling emergencies with information from social networks
Credit: Carlos III University of Madrid Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have presented a prototype of a multi-device system that can involve citizens in managing emergencies. The system,
How can we share solutions to complex systems problems across domains and application areas?
Credit: Gerd Altmann on Pixabay What do power networks, transportation hubs, weather patterns, commercial organisations and swarming robots have in common? For those seeking to understand, manipulate or build these
Developing tools for reproducibility
The concept of reproducibility is vital when it comes to research, as it provides transparency and ensures clarity for findings. However, reproducibility is often difficult because investigators publish only their
Counting microbes on a smartphone
Using a watershed algorithm, the APD Colony Counter App developed by A*STAR researchers can cheaply count the bacterial colonies on a culture plate on-the-go. Credit: A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute An Android
