News tagged with clutter objects
Engineer creating more sensitive, safer landmine detectors
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Long after a conflict, landmines remain buried underground unless someone can locate and detonate them. According to the United Nations (UN), there are more than 100 million landmines buried in 68 countries around the world. ...
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Spacing, not size, matters in visual recognition, researchers find
Sep 25, 2008 |
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You might think that the farthest distance at which you can hold a book and still read it quickly is determined by the size of the letters. However, New York University neuroscientists have concluded that it's the spacing ...
Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision
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Aug 28, 2008 |
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The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered ...
Visual research seeks to cut through clutter
Jan 17, 2006 |
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Think you have problems finding your car keys in a messy drawer? Just imagine the difficulty faced by airport baggage checkers search for weapons amid a jumbled clutter of different textures and colors. A researcher at Rutgers ...
Bats Have Complex Skills to Deal with 'Clutter'
Mar 07, 2006 |
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A little clutter on the way to the refrigerator might mean taking a few extra seconds to navigate your way to a late night snack. For a bat flying around in the dark searching for a meal of insects, the “clutter” ...
Consumers overpredict the use of holiday gifts
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Before you add that fancy "it" gadget to your holiday wish list, you should know you're not going to use it as much as you think you will. For a better estimate of the use you'll get out of your new toy, ask a stranger.
New testing facility helps researchers improve land mine detection equipment
May 13, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a test facility to evaluate and enhance sensors designed to detect buried land mines. The unique automated system measures the response of individual ...
Detecting human activities through barriers
Sep 25, 2008 |
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University of Texas professor Hao Ling and Ph.D. candidate, Shobha Ram, are one step closer to making x-ray vision a reality. They are perfecting radar systems that can detect human activities through barriers ...
First impressions: Computer model behaves like humans on visual categorization task
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Computers can usually out-compute the human brain, but there are some tasks, such as visual object recognition, that the brain performs easily yet are very challenging for computers. The brain has a much more ...
Google-Fujitsu join 'smart objects' alliance
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Internet powerhouse Google and Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu have joined an alliance to promote the ability of objects from appliances to cars to communicate with one another online.
NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft
Dec 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger to Earth. The sky-mapping ...
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