Credit: Disney Research Sit on Disney Research’s Magic Bench and you may have an elephant hand you a glowing orb. Or you might get rained on. Or a tiny donkey
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Researchers make augmented reality a group experience
Credit: Disney Research Sit on Disney Research’s Magic Bench and you may have an elephant hand you a glowing orb. Or you might get rained on. Or a tiny donkey
Neural nets model audience reactions to movies
Credit: Disney Research Disney Research used deep learning methods to develop a new means of assessing complex audience reactions to movies via facial expressions and demonstrated that the new technique
Computers using linguistic clues to deduce photo content
Credit: Disney Research Scientists at Disney Research and the University of California, Davis have found that the way a person describes the content of a photo can provide important clues
Target ‘best connected neighbors’ to stop spread of infection in developing countries
A fishing village along Lake Victoria in the Mayuge District of Uganda, close to where researchers gathered data for the latest study. Credit: Dr. Goylette Chami Our lives benefit from
Colorizing images with deep neural networks
The proposed system uses AI to colorize a grayscale image (left), guided by user color ‘hints’ (second), providing the capability for quickly generating multiple plausible colorizations (middle to right). Credit:
Detecting dangers with crowdsourcing
Credit: Harvard University By the time officials in Flint, Mich., declared a state of emergency in response dangerously high levels of lead in the city’s drinking water in mid-December of
A better approach to disease prediction through big data analytics
Big data holds great promise to change health care for the better. However, much of the technology that will someday transform health care and its delivery is not yet mature
Big-data analysis points toward new drug discovery method
A research team led by scientists at UC San Francisco has developed a computational method to systematically probe massive amounts of open-access data to discover new ways to use drugs,
Data analysis in the kitchen: Modeling flavor networks to predict tasty ingredient combinations
What’s on the menu tonight? How about some roast beef with strawberry-, beer- and garlic sauce? Or perhaps something lighter based on tomatoes, apricots and whiskey gum? Gourmet chefs and
Data analysis in the kitchen: Modeling flavor networks to predict tasty ingredient combinations
What’s on the menu tonight? How about some roast beef with strawberry-, beer- and garlic sauce? Or perhaps something lighter based on tomatoes, apricots and whiskey gum? Gourmet chefs and
Human pose estimation for care robots using deep learning
Left: Experiment scene (this image is not used for estimation) Center: Depth data corresponding to the extracted person region, Right: Estimation result (the colors correspond to each part of the
Making telescopes that curve and twist
New computational tool automates design of telescoping structures that provide compact storage and rapid deployment. Shown here: a complex telescoping lizard expands to many times its original volume, serving as
Your phone to ID you by the way you swipe
Extra layers of security, such as identifying users based on the way they swipe screens, could prevent strangers from getting into smartphones. Credit: Pixabay/ smailox Fingerprint scanners are all the
Artificial intelligence-based system warns when a gun appears in a video
Credit: University of Granada Scientists from the University of Granada (UGR) have designed a computer system based on new artificial intelligence techniques that automatically detects in real time when a