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It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images

It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially, ...


A human failure, seen at face value

A human failure, seen at face value

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(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 ...


iLife upgrade makes photos, videos fun

Technology / Software

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One of the main reasons people buy Apple computers is because they come with fabulous software for managing your photos and creating movies.





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Sony Cybber-Shot

Sony Cameras Wait for Baby to Smile

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 25, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Sony has recently unveiled eight new cameras in its 2008 Cyber-Shot series. The cameras, which include entry level models and more advanced designs, will begin shipping this spring.


Interactive computer screening enhances domestic violence detection in family medical practice

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An interactive computer questionnaire may give family doctors a better opportunity to identify and intervene with patients who are victims of domestic violence, according to a new study from the Dalla Lana ...


Yawn alert for weary drivers

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

We've all experienced it after long hours driving, the eyelids getting heavy, a deep yawn, neck muscles relaxing, the urge to sleep, the head nodding down... But, you're hands are still on the wheel and you only just stopped ...


Study finds many people with hemianopia have difficulty detecting pedestrians while driving

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists have found that--when tested in a driving simulator--patients with hemianopia (blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes) have significantly more difficulty detecting ...


Face blindness research shows emotions are key in the study of face recognition

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Recognizing the faces of family and friends is usually an effortless process. However, a minority of people have difficulties identifying the person they are meeting or remembering people they have met before. These problems ...


New study highlights difficulty in detecting threats in crowds

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 25, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Understanding and interpreting facially-expressed emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear or anger is something most of us take for granted. It is an evolutionary skill we've developed in order to survive - particularly ...


Telemonitoring: A bridge to personalized medicine

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An increasing number of heart failure patients are treated with a number of complex devices, i.e. cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Recently completed and ongoing clinical trials such as MADIT-CRT and EchoCRT provide ...


Sensitive nanowire disease detectors made by Yale scientists

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano Le ...


Odor ID not disguised by diet

Biology /

created Oct 31, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Reporting in the October 31 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE, scientists from the Monell Center present behavioral and chemical findings to reveal that an individual's underlying odor signature remains detectable even i ...


New system for detection of single atoms

New system for detection of single atoms: Records photon bursts from optical cavity

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Scientists have devised a new technique for real-time detection of freely moving individual neutral atoms that is more than 99.7% accurate and sensitive enough to discern the arrival of a single atom in less ...



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