News articles tagged with 'recognition'
How do we combine faces and voices?
— 9 Mar 2011 20:11 | HealthHuman social interactions are shaped by our ability to recognise people. Faces and voices are known to be some of the key features that enable us to identify individual people, and…
Psychologists find skill in recognising faces peaks after age 30
— 4 Jan 2011 20:59 | HealthScientists have made the surprising discovery that our ability to recognise and remember faces peaks at age 30 to 34, about a decade later than most of our other mental abilities…
Multifocal contact lenses may reduce vision for night driving
— 4 Nov 2010 13:00 | HealthA new study suggests that older adults who wear multifocal contact lenses to correct problems with near vision, a very common condition that increases with age, may have greater difficulty…
From handwritten CAPTCHAs to 'smart rooms,' tech solutions start with pattern recognition
— 15 Oct 2010 12:44 | TechnologyBuy something online, enter your credit card number and mailing address. Simple. Then you come to the box with the CAPTCHA, the Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers…
MIT neuroscientists reveal how the brain learns to recognise objects
— 22 Sep 2010 18:06 | BiologyUnderstanding how the brain recognises objects is a central challenge for understanding human vision, and for designing artificial vision systems. (No computer system comes close to…
Recognition at first glance
— 2 Jul 2010 10:26 | BiologyWe meet a multitude of people on a daily basis: the nice waitress in the coffee shop around the corner, the bus driver or the colleagues at the office. Without the ability to recognise…
Parkinson's disease makes it harder to figure out how other people feel
— 16 Mar 2010 06:04 | HealthScientists are beginning to find out why people with Parkinson's disease often feel socially awkward. Parkinson's patients find it harder to recognise expressions of emotion in other…
Genes responsible for ability to recognise faces
— 23 Feb 2010 12:21 | HealthThe ability to recognise faces is largely determined by your genes, according to new research at UCL (University College London)…
Bees recognise human faces using feature configuration
— 29 Jan 2010 19:11 | BiologyGoing about their day-to-day business, bees have no need to be able to recognise human faces. Yet in 2005, when Adrian Dyer from Monash University trained the fascinating insects to…
Face recognition ability inherited separately from IQ
— 20 Jan 2010 12:58 | TechnologyRecognising faces is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it. Some people are unable to recognise even their closest friends (a condition called prosopagnosia),…