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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

MRSA bacteria, resembling purple cotton balls, overlayed with a deep learning network and a bullseye.

MIT news article

Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates

These compounds can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes deadly infections.

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

MIT researchers have introduced a versatile technique that gives an animator the flexibility to see how different mathematical functions deform complex 2D or 3D characters. The new technique lets animators choose the function that best fits their vision for the animation (Credits: Courtesy of the researchers).

CSAIL article

A flexible solution to help artists improve animation

Artists who bring to life heroes and villains in animated movies and video games could have more control over their animations, thanks to a new technique introduced by MIT researchers.

Friday, December 15, 2023

MVT, minimum viewing time, is a dataset difficulty metric measuring the minimum presentation time required for an image to be recognized. Researchers hope this metric will be used to evaluate models' performance and biological plausibility and guide the creation of new more difficult datasets, leading to new computer vision techniques that perform better in real life (Credits: The researchers/MIT CSAIL).

CSAIL article

Image recognition accuracy: An unseen challenge confounding today’s AI

AI & Machine Learning

While some of your photos could be understood in an instant, why was this cat photo much more difficult?

Monday, December 11, 2023

On left is a tiny rectangular device that is about 20-30 mm. On right is a heatmap of the device that shows the device is hotter in the middle.

MIT news article

Scientists 3D print self-heating microfluidic devices

Graphic & Vision

The one-step fabrication process rapidly produces miniature chemical reactors that could be used to detect diseases or analyze substances.