Stanford computer scientists recently announced that they have invented an algorithm that digitally converts photographs into 3-D representations of their subjects. Furthermore, they seemed to be offering anyone and everyone on the world wide interweb the chance to toy with their new technology at a designated website, located here.
When I first checked […]
The New Scientist reports that computers may be better at recognizing faces as visual averages–the sum of a number of images of a person, from a number of different perspectives in different lighting–rather than in a single passport or ID photo. Scientists at the University of Glasgow tested an advanced facial recognition program, FaceVACS, […]
Scientists at MIT report that East Asians with strong cultural affinities naturally pay more attention to visual context than Westerners, who focus more closely on individual objects within a visual context. This study is the latest in a number of studies (this one, for example) that attempt to chart how cultural backgrounds affect vision. […]
An article on NewScientist.com describes new software being developed to help bridge the gap between verbal and visual searches. Pretty cool. Until now, most engines like Google have relied on tags attached to pictures, or the page in which photographs and other art are embedded, to produce image results. This new prototype […]
