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Brilliant 10

By Guest PostOctober 7, 2012Education, Sciencebody parts, brilliant 10, california irvine, capability, cars, computational algorithm, computer engineering, computer vision, delaware, deva ramanan, flat photography, honor roll, human template, identify, image recognition, monitor, patient, pedestrian detection, popular, rehabilitation, science magazine, self driving, software, system, teaches, three-dimensional, uci, ud alumnus, university, videogame systems, young scientists

UD alumnus one of Popular Science magazine’s ‘Brilliant 10’ Young Scientists

University of Delaware alumnus Deva Ramanan has been named one of Popular Science magazine’s “Brilliant 10” Young Scientists.

The designation places Ramanan on the magazine’s annual “honor roll” of the 10 most promising scientist for 2012.

Ramanan, who earned his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering at UD in 2000, is an associate professor of computer science at the University of California Irvine (UCI). There he is working to improve a computer’s image recognition capability, or in simpler terms, a computer’s ability to “see people.” (more…)

GPS Not Working? A Shoe Radar May Help You Find Your Way

By Guest PostDecember 4, 2010Science, Technologyacceleration error, cars, cell phones, dan stencil, deceleration, devices, forces created by acceleration, global positioning system, gps, imus, inertial measurement units, radar sensor, satellite connection, satellites, shoe radar, shoe-embedded radar system

The prevalence of global positioning system (GPS) devices in everything from cars to cell phones has almost made getting lost a thing of the past. But what do you do when your GPS isn’t working? Researchers from North Carolina State University and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a shoe-embedded radar system that may help you find your way.

“There are situations where GPS is unavailable, such as when you’re in a building, underground or in places where a satellite connection can be blocked by tall buildings or other objects,” says Dr. Dan Stancil, co-author of a paper describing the research and professor and head of NC State’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “So what do you do without satellites?” (more…)

The Rise of Google’s iCar

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2010Science, Technologyautomation, cars, collision avoidance system, darpa challenge, e550, georgia tech, golden gate bridge, Google, icar, lake tahoe, lombard street, mercedes benz, navigation, olivia coleman, pacific coast highway, pedestrian warning system, robotics, sebastian thrun, self-driving vehicles, software engineer, Technology, traffic fatalities, vision 2020, volvo s60, world health organization, zero-fatality

With the recent advancements in robotics, automation, navigation, and self-driving vehicles, all spurred on by the DARPA Challenge and the research at Georgia Tech among other programs, it’s no surprise to hear that Google has been working very hard on these same kinds of technology.

Sebastian Thrun, Distinguished Software Engineer at Google, recently announced on their blog that so far Google’s efforts to create a self-driving car have been largely successful, though he made it a point to say that the program was still very much in the experimental stages. (more…)

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Brilliant 10

GPS Not Working? A Shoe Radar May Help You Find Your Way

The Rise of Google’s iCar