by admin | May 2, 2025
The power of computers to ‘see’ – to recognise visual patterns – is being tapped for all sorts of purposes, from enabling autonomous vehicles, to providing fast and comprehensive analysis of medical image results, to recognising faces. But there...
by admin | May 2, 2025
The AI program Midjourney can generate all kinds of images, but it famously struggles with the human hand. Fingers may be missing or added, fingernails absent, and unnatural poses struck. The problem, says Professor Han Kai, Assistant Professor in the School of...
by admin | May 2, 2025
In every waking moment, our eyes take in an enormous amount of information from our environment – people, places, things, animals, events. But how does our brain identify and organise these images, and single out the important ones?That question is of...
by admin | May 2, 2025
Self-driving cars are no longer a vision of the future. They are already operating in some streets. Google’s Waymo, which develops self-driving vehicles, is up and running in several US cities and this year started testing in Japan. Goldman Sachs predicted in August...
by admin | May 2, 2025
Urban planning that fails to account for human perceptions often results in environments that disadvantage vulnerable population groups. For instance, if you stand on a tree-lined urban street at lunchtime on a sunny day, the greenery will be a welcome canopy of...
