Machine learning & AI

Credit: University of Florida Building upon her background in corporate communication research, Public Relations Associate Professor Rita Men went into high gear during the pandemic to study effective communications from CEOs as well as chatbots used for social listening. In collaboration with Public Relations Department Chair Marcia DiStaso, Men developed...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and McGill University have adapted an algorithm first developed to spot anomalies in data, like typos in patient information at hospitals or errant figures in accounting, to identify similarities across escort ads. The algorithm scans and clusters similarities in text and...

Professor Yi Shang and team are using artificial intelligence to better identify waterfowl in aerial photos (such as the above). Credit: University of Missouri Artificial intelligence (AI) is good at recognizing a single bird in an image. Where it falls short is when it tries to identify hundreds of tiny...

European Commissioner for Europe fit for the Digital Age Margrethe Vestager, left, and European Commissioner in charge of internal market Thierry Breton participate in a media conference on an EU approach to artificial intelligence, following a weekly meeting of EU Commissioners, at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, April 21, 2021....

What may appear to be an image of Tacoma is, in fact, a simulated one, created by transferring visual patterns of Beijing onto a map of a real Tacoma neighborhood. Credit: Zhao et al., Cartography and Geographic Information Science A fire in Central Park seems to appear as a smoke...

Autonomous aerial robot searching for fires in a building façade during the MBZIRC’20 competition. Top: Picture of the robot in front of the facade. Bottom: 3D map of the environment used for localization. Credit: Caballero & Merino. To enable the efficient operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in instances where...

Ever wondered why your virtual home assistant doesn't understand your questions? Or why your navigation app took you on the side street instead of the highway? In a study published April 21st in the journal iScience, Italian researchers designed a robot that "thinks out loud" so that users can hear...

In the Thatcher Effect (left), two inverted versions of Margaret Thatcher look deceptively similar, but look dramatically different if you rotate this page upside-down. By comparing the distance between such upright and inverted faces in deep networks, the authors were able to track whether the Thatcher effect arises in deep...

Credit: University of Twente Researchers at the University of Twente have discovered that primary school children in both regular and special needs schools make strides when they learn together with a robot. On 30 April, both Daniel Davison and Bob Schadenberg will obtain their Ph.D.s from UT, with comparable research...

One of the research participants using the VR walking simulator and their corresponding movements in VR. Credit: Toyohashi University of Technology/The University of Tokyo Despite virtual reality (VR) technology being more affordable than ever, developers have yet to achieve a sense of full immersion in a digital world. Among the...

Credit: Marta Cuesta for Pixabay Although the problem of gender discrimination is already found in the music industry, music recommendation algorithms would be increasing the gender gap. Andrés Ferraro and Xavier Serra, researchers of the Music Technology research group (MTG) of the UPF Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC),...

(a) A Cropped FRIL image used for input (b) Ground truth image annotated by human experts (c) Network-generated image with annotations d. Discriminator network to discern between real and fake images. Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience From sample preparation to image acquisition, electron microscopy (EM) requires precise and time-consuming steps...

Advances in artificial intelligence technology is leading to the development of neural networks that mimic the biology of the brain. Credit: KAUST A neural network that mimics the biology of the brain can be loaded onto a microchip for faster and more efficient artificial intelligence. A biomimicking "spiking" neural network...

Five robots in a flexible pentagonal formation squeezing through a narrow pathway. Credit: Dr. Rohith G & Prof. Madhu Vadali. Multi-robot systems have recently been used to tackle a variety of real-world problems, for instance, helping human users to monitor environments and access secluded locations. In order to navigate unknown...

Brick kiln chimneys outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Credit: Nina Brooks Like superheroes capable of seeing through obstacles, environmental regulators may soon wield the power of all-seeing eyes that can identify violators anywhere at any time, according to a new Stanford University-led study. The paper, published the week of April 19 in...

Albert Einstein rendition. Credit: UneeQ Digital Humans Audio content production company Aflorithmic and digital human creators UneeQ have collaborated to synthesize the voice of renowned historical scientist, Albert Einstein. Both organizations intend to give users the opportunity to ask a life-like Einstein AI practical questions, just as if they were...

This image shows the change in word importance over time for tweets related to the Bill and Melinda Gates conspiracy theory. In the top panel, the x-axis represents time while the y-axis shows important words. Color represents the importance of words, with darker color indicating higher importance. In the bottom...

DANNCE is a new tool that can use multiple video recordings of an animal in a complex environment (Upper) to determine the animal's full 3D pose. Lower: Example 3D DANNCE predictions (top), and video reprojections of every third frame (bottom), of a rearing sequence in a mouse not bearing markers...

Army researchers create a novel approach that allows autonomous systems to flexibly interpret and respond to Soldier intent. Credit: (1st Lt. Angelo Mejia) Spoken dialogue is the most natural way for people to interact with complex autonomous agents such as robots. Future Army operational environments will require technology that allows...

A comparison summary of deep neural networks (DNNs) and discrete choice models (DCMs) characteristics Credit: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Researchers at the Future Urban Mobility Interdisciplinary Research Group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, have created a synthetic framework known as...