News tagged with panoramic vision

Auto-pilots need a birds-eye view

New research on how birds can fly so quickly and accurately through dense forests may lead to new developments in robotics and auto-pilots.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers create all seeing 'eye'

The remarkable ability of insects to look in all directions at once has been emulated by a team of international scientists who have built an artificial 'eye' with an unobstructed all-round view.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0




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Car Talk: LISA develops smart cars to make safer drivers

Calling all gamers: If you like to play first-person racing games, you may be able to help campus researchers better understand typical driving behaviors. The objective is to develop “intelligent” ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google Maps taking armchair explorers to the Amazon

Two women washed clothes in the dark water of the Rio Negro as a boat glided past with a camera-laden Google tricycle strapped to the roof, destined to give the world a window into the Amazon rain forest.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Google grew from Stanford engineering, and the relationship continues to provide answers to tough problems

Visitors to the new Huang Engineering Center, home of the Stanford School of Engineering, may see a whimsical structure built of brightly colored Lego blocks, translucent plastic and packaging tape. Tucked ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mars rover's 'Gagarin' moment applauded exploration

(PhysOrg.com) -- A flat, light-toned rock on Mars visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover in 2005 informally bears the name of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who rode into orbit in the Soviet Union's ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A 360 degree camera that sees in 3D (w/ Video)

Surround sight has come to the camera. Inspired by the eye of a fly, EPFL scientists have invented a camera that can take pictures and film in 360° and reconstruct the images in 3D.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Computer Scientists Build Pedestrian Remover

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine encountering leashed dogs without dog walkers, or shoes filled just with ankles - when scoping out potential apartments using Google Street View. These are the sorts of visual hiccups ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Terapixel Project: Lots of Data, Expertise

How can you achieve the impossible? Easy -- as long as you have the right people and the right tools. The Terapixel project from Microsoft Research Redmond is proof positive.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Astronomers unveil an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project — a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESO's observing sites in Chile — has just been released ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Using math to design amazing mirrors

Mathematician Andrew Hicks was in his Drexel University office, puzzling over some problem he can no longer recall, when colleague Ron Perline walked in with a challenge. Fresh from his morning bicycle ride, Perline was unhappy ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

HiRISE Camera Captures High-Resolution 3-D Images of Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, team based at The University of Arizona today released 362 three-dimensional images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 1


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