Facial performance capture, a key component of visual effects for movies and computer games, can be obtained using just a single camera with a new methodology developed by Disney Research.
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Protecting the power grid with circuit simulation methods
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering In December 2015, Russian hackers allegedly pummeled Ukraine’s power grid, disrupting the flow of electricity for nearly a quarter-million Ukrainians.
Machine gaydar—AI is reinforcing stereotypes that liberal societies are trying to get rid of
Credit: Artem Oleshko/Shutterstock Following the old saying that “knowledge is power”, companies are seeking to infer increasingly intimate properties about their customers as a way to gain an edge over
Congressional redistricting less contentious when resolved using computer algorithm
Concerns that the process of U.S. congressional redistricting may be politically biased have fueled many debates, but a team of University of Illinois computer scientists and engineers has developed a
Algorithm uses Instagram posts to advise tourists on attractions most favoured by locals
Programmers from ITMO University created a computer algorithm that guides tourists to places of interest that are most popular with locals based on their Instagram posts. To test the algorithm,
Computational tool recognizes filamentary sections of neurons and blood vessels
Retinal and neuronal segmentation images (right column) can be produced from empirical two-dimensional datasets (left column) thanks to a new computational approach. Credit: IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from Ref 1.
Algorithm reconstructs processes from individual images
The new method is able to reconstruct biological processes using image data. Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have developed a new method for reconstructing continuous
Reproducing the computational environments of experiments
A view from inside the MDC’s data center, with racks of high performance computers. Credit: MDC Experiments increasingly rely on high-performance computing software. Differences in software environments can cause problems
What language tells us about changing attitudes to extremism
Words are more than their dictionary definition. Credit: Amir Ridhwan/Shutterstock The words “extreme”,”extremist” and “extremism” carry so many connotations these days – far more than a basic dictionary definition could
Source code of award-winning knowledge base is now available for everyone
Through automatically generated entities and their relationships, computers can answer complex search queries. Credit: MPI Almost every word has more than one meaning. Modern search engines solve this problem using
‘Simple’ chess puzzle holds key to $1m prize
Credit: University of St Andrews Researchers at the University of St Andrews have thrown down the gauntlet to computer programmers to find a solution to a “simple” chess puzzle which
Artificial intelligence analyzes gravitational lenses 10 million times faster
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks – a form of
Solving AI’s moving-target search problem
Credit: IBM As we look to get from point A to point B, people increasingly have options that go beyond the typical bus or taxi. Various flavours of ride and
Everyone’s an expert, but a computer program may be able to pick the best ones
Combining the intuition of humans with the impartiality of computers could improve decision-making for organizations, eventually leading to lower costs and better profits, according to a team of researchers. In
Mimicking the reflexive detection ability of the animal visual system for computer detection of moving objects
If disaster ever struck, Joe Fleischmann could keep the lights, refrigerator and big-screen TV running in his Orange County home, even if the power company went dark. Article source: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mimicking-reflexive-ability-animal-visual.html