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A realtor sends a prospective homebuyer a blurry photograph of a house taken from across the street. The homebuyer can compare it to the real thing -- look at the picture, then look at the real house -- and see that the bay window is actually two windows close together, the flowers out front are plastic and what looked like a door is actually a hole in the wall. What if you … [Read more...] about New computational method validates images without ‘ground truth’: WIF helps ensure ‘seeing is believing’ when it comes to the very small

Since the 2019/20 season, controversial referee calls in the English Premier League may be technically reviewed and, if deemed necessary, corrected. Using a Twitter analysis of 129 games in the English Premier League, a research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now determined how decisions made by video referees affect the mood of the fans. For its 2019/20 … [Read more...] about Fans are not amused about decisions made by video assistants

By the time children are 3 years old they already have an adult-like preference for visual fractal patterns commonly seen in nature, according to University of Oregon researchers. That discovery emerged among children who've been raised in a world of Euclidean geometry, such as houses with rooms constructed with straight lines in a simple non-repeating manner, said the study's … [Read more...] about Like adults, children by age 3 prefer seeing fractal patterns: Study concludes that preference for common natural patterns may develop early in life

Combining neuroscience and robotic research has gained impressive results in the rehabilitation of paraplegic patients. A research team led by Prof. Gordon Cheng from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) was able to show that exoskeleton training not only helped patients to walk, but also stimulated their healing process. With these findings in mind, Prof. Cheng wants to … [Read more...] about Challenges of fusing robotics and neuroscience

New research has shown robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours. Increasing our understanding of whether robots can affect risk-taking could have clear ethical, practical and policy implications, which this study set out to explore. Dr Yaniv Hanoch, Associate Professor … [Read more...] about ‘The robot made me do it’: Robots encourage risk-taking behavior in people

When the words "artificial intelligence" (AI) come to mind, your first thoughts may be of super-smart computers, or robots that perform tasks without needing any help from humans. Now, a multi-institutional team including researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has accomplished something not too far off: They developed an AI algorithm called … [Read more...] about AI system discovers useful new material: CAMEO algorithm identifies new compound potentially useful for photonic devices and biologically inspired computers

Researchers have used AI to control beams for the next generation of smaller, cheaper accelerators for research, medical and industrial applications. Experiments led by Imperial College London researchers, using the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Central Laser Facility (CLF), showed that an algorithm was able to tune the complex parameters involved in controlling … [Read more...] about Artificial intelligence improves control of powerful plasma accelerators

A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University has developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that help them better understand the brain computations that underlie thoughts. This is new, because until now there has been no method to measure thoughts. The researchers first developed a new model that can estimate thoughts by evaluating behavior, … [Read more...] about AI helps scientists understand brain activity behind thoughts

What if we didn't have skin? We would have no sense of touch, no detection of coldness or pain, leaving us inept to respond to any situation. The skin is not just a protective shell for organs, but rather a signaling system for survival that provides information on the external stimuli or temperature, or a meteorological observatory that reports the weather. Tactile receptors, … [Read more...] about More skin-like, electronic skin that can feel

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform that detects COVID-19 by analyzing X-ray images of the lungs. Called DeepCOVID-XR, the machine-learning algorithm outperformed a team of specialized thoracic radiologists -- spotting COVID-19 in X-rays about 10 times faster and 1-6% more accurately. The researchers believe … [Read more...] about AI detects COVID-19 on chest X-rays with accuracy and speed: Algorithm outperformed thoracic radiologists in new study