Image recognition technology gains a foothold in next wave gadgets—some for the kitchen. It isn’t exactly flawless, but “computer vision” capabilities are improving quickly, allowing for automatic ...

A research group at Disney Research Pittsburgh has developed a computer vision system that, much like humans, can continuously improve its ability to recognize objects by picking up hints while ...

Portions of the brain that activate when people view pictures of objects compared to scrambled images can also be activated by touch alone, confirms a new report. Portions of the brain that activate ...

Computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and an audio caption, the model will highlight ...

The fish species is separated from mammals by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, yet its seemingly primitive brain can handle many of the same elaborate visual tasks. Optogenetic stimulation ...