Leap unit – super accurate gesture recognition A San Francisco-based startup named Leap Motion recently unveiled a groundbreaking 3D motion control system. The unit which is planned to reach the market at a cost of about $70 is set to ...
Facial Recognition-Straight from Sci-Fi
Taipei-based Innovative Digitech-Enabled Applications and Services Institute displays facial recognition system. Source: maximpc.com In the age of re-enlightenment, as these modern times have been so eloquently named, comes a technology that is straight from the pages of Isaac Asimov. Facial ...
Teaching Computers to Recognize Objects
Researchers of the European “Cognitive-Level Annotation using Latent Statistical Structure” (CLASS) project are developing technologies that could help computers to visually recognize specific objects, such as one’s glasses, and general classes of objects, such as a random car on the ...
Criminals Beware: Computerized Lip Reading
Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK are developing a computerized lip-reading system, which they say may be used to fight crime. The scientists recently received a grant of over half a million dollars by England’s ...