Media Lab graduate student selected from over 7,300 entrants, awarded $50,000 scholarship in contest inspired by the film "Hidden Figures."
January 17, 2017Future versions of an algorithm from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help with teaching, marketing, and memory improvement.
December 16, 2015Neuroscientists find evidence that the brain’s inferotemporal cortex can identify objects.
October 5, 2015Team from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab develops silicone rubber gripper and advanced object-identification algorithms.
September 30, 2015System designed to label visual scenes according to type turns out to detect particular objects, too.
May 8, 2015New algorithm could enable household robots to better identify objects in cluttered environments.
January 12, 2015Award honors work on real-time energy-efficient visual data processing for portable media, which will impact elderly-assistance and advanced driver-assistance systems.
December 23, 2014Newest computer neural networks can identify visual objects as well as the primate brain.
December 18, 2014Algorithm for determining orientation of objects could aid robots in navigation, scene understanding.
April 4, 2014New brain-scanning technique allows scientists to see when and where the brain processes visual information.
January 26, 2014New algorithm uses subtle changes to make a face more memorable without changing a person’s overall appearance.
December 18, 2013By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the systems’ failures.
September 19, 2013Neuroscientist looks forward to collaborative studies of visual perception in the brain and its computational applications.
November 8, 2011Cognitive neuroscientists shed light on how the brain responds to scenes and their mirror-image reversals.
August 18, 2011An algorithm for identifying the boundaries of objects in digital images is 50,000 times more efficient than its predecessor.
May 31, 2011A new computational model sheds light on the workings of the human visual system and could help advance artificial-intelligence research, too.
June 7, 2010Object recognition systems that break images into ever smaller parts should be much more efficient and may shed light on how the brain works.
May 7, 2010MIT research uses information about how frequently objects are seen together to refine the conclusions of object recognition systems.
March 5, 2010Researchers from MIT's CSAIL teach computers to recognize objects.
October 13, 2009