by admin | Nov 19, 2025
Rapid progress in data technology, including AI, means more personal data than ever is being collected – whether it be DNA, facial recognition or any human identifier or activity. For individuals, that raises obvious privacy concerns. But Professor Yiu Siu-ming of the...
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...
