News tagged with computer vision
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Locksmiths, Computer Scientists Say
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.
New search technique for images and videos has broad applications
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...
Human eye inspires advance in computer vision (w/Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Inspired by the behavior of the human eye, Boston College computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with nearly double the accuracy and 10 times ...
Stay focused: Researchers sharpen photographs by capturing multiple low-quality images
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For photographers, it's sometimes difficult to keep both the foreground and background of an image in focus. Focusing somewhere between the two can ensure that neither is blurry; but neither ...
A human failure, seen at face value
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. In an effort to explain our success in this area, researchers are taking a ...
Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...
Engineers develop machine that visually inspects and sorts strawberry plants
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) have developed a plant-sorting machine that uses computer vision and machine learning to inspect and grade harvested strawberry plants ...
