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Tool Helps Clear Biases from Computer Vision

Oct. 1, 2020 — Researchers have developed a tool that flags potential biases in sets of images used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The work is part of a larger effort to remedy and prevent the ...

Security Software for Autonomous Vehicles

Sep. 16, 2020 — Before autonomous vehicles participate in road traffic, they must demonstrate conclusively that they do not pose a danger to others. New software prevents accidents by predicting different variants ...

Virtual Tourism Could Offer New Opportunities for Travel Industry, Travelers

Sep. 9, 2020 — A new proposal for virtual travel, using advanced mathematical techniques and combining livestream video with existing photos and videos of travel ...

Scientists Slow and Steer Light With Resonant Nanoantennas

Aug. 20, 2020 — Researchers have fashioned ultrathin silicon nanoantennas that trap and redirect light, for applications in quantum computing, LIDAR and even the detection of ...

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Engineers Pre-Train AI Computers to Make Them Even More Powerful

Sep. 22, 2020 — Engineers have developed a new machine-learning method that paves the way for artificial intelligence to be used in applications that until now have been deemed too sensitive. The method, which has ...

Virtual Reality Trains Public to Reverse Opioid Overdoses

Sep. 14, 2020 — The United States has seen a 200% increase in the rate of deaths by opioid overdose in the last 20 years. But many of these deaths were preventable. Naloxone, also called Narcan, is a prescription ...

New Perception Metric Balances Reaction Time, Accuracy

Sep. 9, 2020 — Researchers have developed a new metric for evaluating how well self-driving cars respond to changing road conditions and traffic, making it possible for the first time to compare perception systems ...

Computer Modeling Used to Predict Reef Health

Aug. 25, 2020 — A researcher has developed a way to predict the future health of the planet's coral reefs. He has been studying the ecosystems of the world's endangered ...

3D Hand-Sensing Wristband Signals Future of Wearable Tech

July 20, 2020 — In a potential breakthrough in wearable sensing technology, researchers have designed a wrist-mounted device that continuously tracks the entire human hand in ...

Which Way to the Fridge? Common Sense Helps Robots Navigate

July 20, 2020 — A robot travelling from point A to point B is more efficient if it understands that point A is the living room couch and point B is a refrigerator. That's the common sense idea behind a 'semantic' ...

Giving Robots Human-Like Perception of Their Physical Environments

July 15, 2020 — New model helps robots understand their environment as humans ...

Move Over, Siri! Researchers Develop Improv-Based Chatbot

July 15, 2020 — Computer scientists have incorporated improv dialogues into chatbots to produce more grounded and engaging ...

A Raspberry Pi-Based Virtual Reality System for Small Animals

July 14, 2020 — The Raspberry Pi Virtual Reality system (PiVR) is a versatile tool for presenting virtual reality environments to small, freely moving animals (such as flies and fish larvae). The use of PiVR, ...

New System Combines Smartphone Videos to Create 4D Visualizations

July 1, 2020 — Researchers have demonstrated that they can combine iPhone videos shot 'in the wild' by separate cameras to create 4D visualizations that allow viewers to watch action from various angles, or even ...