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Multi-Sensor System Enhances Road and Railway Inspections

Winter storms, heavy rainfall and floods can cause significant damage to railway networks and roads. Detecting cracks and other defects in road surfaces,…

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Computing Collaboration Uncovers Impact of Shifting Monsoons

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a dozen other international research institutions have produced the most elaborate…

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Simplifying Complex Geometric Model Analysis at Carnegie Mellon

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an efficient new way to quickly analyze complex geometric models by borrowing a computational approach…

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Underwater Robot Project EurEx-LUNa Prepares for Space Trials

In an ocean covered by an up to 15 kilometer thick sheet of ice that is located on Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, in an average distance of 600 million…

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5G-Enabled Drones: Exploring New Communication Challenges

“Communicating with drones via cellular networks poses new challenges”, according to Christian Raffelsberger, who works as a project manager for Lakeside Labs…

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AI monitoring of laser welding processes – X-ray vision and eavesdropping ensure quality

Laser welding is a process suitable for joining metals and thermoplastics. It has become particularly well established in highly automated production, for…

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Data Security in Website Tracking: Protect Your Privacy Online

Tracking of our browsing behavior is part of the daily routine of Internet use. Companies use it to adapt ads to the personal needs of potential clients or to…

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AI-Powered Handwriting Imitation: Insights from Researchers

In order to imitate handwriting using AI, the researchers led by Dr. Vincent Christlein, Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition), break writing down…

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VIBE: Enhancing 3D Motion Capture for Realistic Virtual Avatars

A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany has developed VIBE, an algorithmic model that enables more…

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MIT, NIST create first room-temp 'magnon switch' with industrially useful properties

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a potentially new…

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Spiraling Circuits: Boosting AI Efficiency Through Innovation

Machine learning is a type of AI that allows computers to be trained by example data to make predictions for new instances. For example, a smart speaker…

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Enhancing Robotic Prosthetics with Computer Vision and AI

“Lower-limb robotic prosthetics need to execute different behaviors based on the terrain users are walking on,” says Edgar Lobaton, co-author of a paper on the…

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Multifunctional E-Glasses: Monitor Health and Enhance Gaming

Devices that measure electrical signals from the brain (electroencephalogram; EEG) or eyes (electrooculogram; EOG) can help diagnose conditions like epilepsy…

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Unlocking Biomolecule Insights: Algorithms and Holographic Diffraction

When a laser beam is ‘shot’ at a particle (a molecule or a crystal) during SPI, each object produces a diffraction pattern, which helps scientists to…

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New 5G Switch Boosts Energy Efficiency by 50X

With funding from the Army Research Office, an element of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory, researchers at The…

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'One-way' electronic devices enter the mainstream

Waves, whether they are light waves, sound waves, or any other kind, travel in the same manner in forward and reverse directions–this is known as the…

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