Tag: computer vision

  • Alfred Jones Talks About the Challenges of Designing Fully Self-Driving Vehicles

    Alfred Jones Talks About the Challenges of Designing Fully Self-Driving Vehicles

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    The leap to self-driving cars could be as game-changing as the one from horse power to engine power. If cars prove able to drive themselves better than humans do, the safety gains could be enormous: auto accidents were the #8 cause of death worldwide in 2016. And who doesn’t want to turn travel time into…

  • CMU researchers use computer vision to see around corners

    CMU researchers use computer vision to see around corners

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    Future autonomous vehicle as well as other machine intelligence systems might not need line-of-sight to gather incredibly detailed picture info: New research from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Toronto and University College London has invented a method for “watching around corners. ” The system employs special sources of lighting, combined with sensors and computer…