Recognizing Stripes, Not Faces, Software Tracks Whale Sharks
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New software can identify individual whale sharks by analyzing individual patterns of spots and stripes on the fishâs skin.
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Scientists are studying how people perceive faces in hopes of improving face-recognition systems.
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Tracking down online images is mostly hit or miss thanks to inaccurate text tags, but a new technology could help you find what you're looking for more precisely. By John Gartner.
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While cameras increasingly watch our every move, software judges our behavior, columnist Mike Elgan says.
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Morphing two faces together helps scientists understand how we recognise faces.
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New imaging software is making eyes at those squinty camera-phone pictures.
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In search of the ultimate lie detector, researchers turn to thermal facial scans, brain wiring and eyeball tracking. But deception still, well, deceives. By Randy Dotinga.
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Networks of low-res cameras and sensors could monitor urban environments for diverse data -- traffic flow, pollutants, structural integrity -- online. By the Associated Press.
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A white shark in captivity could offer new insights on the mysterious and feared creature.
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A new camera-finding feature at Flickr may find profits, too.
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MIT researchers produce a tiny water-skimming robot prototype they think could monitor water supplies for toxins or skim contaminants off the top of water.
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North Pacific albatrosses are equipped with sensor tags to gather sea-surface data which satellites sometimes miss.
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Radio frequency identification tags, usually used to track commercial products, are helping researchers study the movements of Amazonian peccaries.
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Radar technology to provide 3D data on players and golf ball movement to viewers.
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Just put your lips together and blow Boat-shy dolphins could soon be located via software that identifies what the species is by listening to the individual whistles the marine mammals make.â¦
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New software synchronizes Research In Motion devices with Mac OS X.
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In a modern update of "fish and chips," researchers are planning a worldwide effort to track the movement of sea creatures tagged with tiny electronic devices.