In 2008, Pietro Perona , Caltech's Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering, was on sabbatical in Italy, enjoying a cappuccino in a ...

In the world of optics, tiny structures called microcavities—often no wider than a human hair—play a crucial role in ...

The machine-learning programs that underpin their ability to “see” still have blind spots—but not for much longer ...

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A stacked chip captures, encrypts, and searches image data directly on hardware, combining photodetection, memory, and key ...

A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by ...

Once the stuff of science fiction, 3D printers are now mainstream tools for creation and innovation. These devices, which transform digital blueprints into physical objects, have dramatically evolved ...

Visual recognition of objects is a key function of the primate brain. There is a progression in the complexity of the representation of the visual scene by single neurons. Neurons in early visual ...

At its core, a visual analogy presents a relationship between two images, and then asks you to identify a similar relationship between another pair of images. It essentially states: "A is to B as C is ...

We talked a lot this week about a potential plan to demolish the 50-year-old, I.M. Pei-designed Dallas City Hall to make way for an arena for the Dallas Mavericks. But there were other things ...