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A new online game called 'AI or Not' challenges users to distinguish between AI-generated and real photographs across categories such as street photography, portraits, and architecture. The game aims to test and improve …
Researchers developed a non-contact, real-time heart rate measurement system using image processing with commodity cameras and AI agents. The system uses face detection and deep learning to compute heart rate from video …
Researchers introduced SPEAR, a Python library that programmatically controls Unreal Engine applications for photorealistic embodied AI research. It offers over 14,000 programmable functions, renders 1920x1080 images at …
Researchers introduced a method for extracting rail tracks from classified 3D point clouds using a fully convolutional recurrent neural network trained on synthetic data. The approach rasterizes points, applies the netwo…
Researchers at arXiv introduced Scrambled Edges, a counterfactual test that injects physically implausible edge cues into images, causing vision models to produce geometrically distorted depth predictions. The study foun…
Researchers proposed a hardware-aware pruning and quantization strategy for Graph Convolutional Neural Networks to adapt them for embedded FPGA platforms in event-based vision. The method achieved BRAM memory reductions …
Researchers introduced WildCity, a real-world multimodal dataset collected by autonomous fleets traversing complex urban environments, to advance city-scale spatial intelligence for AI. The dataset includes 18 trajectori…
Researchers fine-tuned latent diffusion models Protogen v3.4 and Stable Diffusion v1.4 on a dataset of Ulos motifs to generate novel designs for the traditional Indonesian textile. Protogen v3.4 outperformed Stable Diffu…
Researchers developed a deep learning pipeline integrating semantic segmentation, regression-based severity estimation, and disease classification for quantifying stress severity in field crops. The system, using U-Net w…
Researchers propose Dynamic-in-Few-Step, a post-training acceleration framework that integrates dynamic structural sparsification into few-step distillation for video diffusion models. The method transforms a pre-trained…
A new benchmark called ImagingBench reveals that leading vision-language models and agentic AI systems, including Gemini, GPT, and Qwen, perform poorly on computational imaging tasks involving physics and inverse problem…
Researchers developed a benchmark to evaluate vision-language models' ability to use spatial deictic expressions across four languages. Tests showed that current models use demonstratives like "this" and "that" different…
Researchers introduced SpaR3D-MoE, a framework that enhances multimodal large language models with adaptive 3D spatial reasoning from sparse RGB inputs. It uses a spatiotemporal manifold sampling mechanism and a geometry…
Researchers propose MiLSD, a micro line-segment detector designed for resource-constrained devices such as microcontrollers, achieving competitive accuracy within a one-megabyte memory budget. The detector uses a compact…
Researchers demonstrate that state-of-the-art video diffusion models possess a highly structured latent space capable of both generation and understanding. They introduce Gen4U, a framework that repurposes frozen generat…
Lenovo released research showing that AI technology is transforming how fans experience the FIFA World Cup 2026, making viewers feel closer to the pitch.
A new online game challenges users to distinguish between AI-generated and real photographs, testing their ability to spot subtle artifacts in images.
Earth Fire Alliance launched its first three operational FireSat satellites, combining multispectral sensing with AI analysis to detect wildfires earlier and build a global dataset. The system, supported by Google Resear…
The 'AI or Not' game challenges users to distinguish between AI-generated and real photographs, featuring categories such as product and street photography. The game highlights the growing difficulty of identifying synth…
Meta announced it will disable the camera on Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses if the LED recording indicator is tampered with, while simultaneously testing prototype 'super-sensing' glasses that capture photos every few seconds a…