https://techxplore.com/software-news/ en-us The latest news on the software, software development, software sciences and computer science. Filmmakers may soon be able to stabilize shaky video, change viewpoints and create freeze-frame, zoom and slow-motion effects—without shooting any new footage—thanks to an algorithm developed by researchers at Cornell University and Google Research. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-software-views-video.html Software Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:34:03 EDT news608463241 Research in the field of robotics has been booming over the past decade with a view to tackle challenges of real value to industry and the public domain. With new robotic systems appearing every other day, developing reliable tools that can be used to evaluate their performance and test algorithms underpinning their functioning is salient. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-open-source-benchmark-skills-robots.html Software Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:00:01 EDT news606128108 Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are advanced machine learning techniques that can generate three-dimensional (3D) representations of objects or environments from two-dimensional (2D) images. As these techniques can model complex real-world environments realistically and in detail, they could greatly support robotics research. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-software-package-ease-neural-radiance.html Software Fri, 26 May 2023 10:30:02 EDT news604142492 Chinese researchers say they successfully bypassed fingerprint authentication safeguards on smartphones by staging a brute force attack. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-brute-force-bypasses-android-biometric-defense.html Software Mon, 22 May 2023 14:58:45 EDT news603986310 SoftZoo is a soft robot co-design platform that can test optimal shapes and sizes for robotic performance in different environments. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-open-source-platform-simulates-wildlife-soft.html Software Tue, 02 May 2023 14:50:19 EDT news602257813 Sometime in 2019, MIT Ph.D. student Ajay Brahmakshatriya formulated a simple, though still quite challenging, goal. He wanted to make it possible for people who had expertise in a particular domain—such as climate modeling, bioinformatics, or architecture—to write their own programming languages, so-called domain-specific languages (or DSLs), even if they had little or no experience in creating programming languages. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-software-tool-easier-debug-domain-specific.html Software Mon, 10 Apr 2023 12:12:57 EDT news600347573 A group of engineers at CREATE Lab (Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab), EPFL, in Lausanne Switzerland, has designed and built a robot arm that is capable of designing paper airplanes, building them and then launching them to see how well they work. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, Nana Obayashi, Kai Junge, Stefan Ilić and Josie Hughes describe their robotic system. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-robot-paper-planes.html Software Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:48:11 EDT news598531679 Humans are innately able to reason about the behaviors of different physical objects in their surroundings. These physical reasoning skills are incredibly valuable for solving everyday problems, as they can help us to choose more effective actions to achieve specific goals. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-testbed-physical-skills-ai-agents.html Software Wed, 08 Feb 2023 09:30:01 EST news595070562 Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed autonomous driving software which distributes risk on the street in a fair manner. The algorithm contained in the software is considered to be the first to incorporate the 20 ethics recommendations of the EU Commission expert group, thus making significantly more differentiated decisions than previous algorithms. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-autonomous-algorithm.html Software Fri, 03 Feb 2023 10:42:04 EST news594643322 Native speakers often dominate the discussion in multilingual online meetings, but adding an automated participant that periodically interrupts the conversation can help non-native speakers get a word in edgewise, according to new research at Cornell. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-bot-non-native-speakers-floor-videoconferencing.html Software Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:26:28 EST news594401185 Working closely with blind and low-vision (BLV) users, researchers at the University of Waterloo and the Rochester Institute of Technology have developed a new authentication method that could help BLV technology users more securely access their devices. The new method, OneButtonPIN, allows users to input PIN codes using a single large button and a series of haptic vibrations. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-onebuttonpin-low-vision-tech-users.html Software Wed, 18 Jan 2023 04:11:45 EST news593237496 Researchers at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a model that enables a robot to serve tea and coffee faster and more safely than humans—with no sloshing. The mathematics behind the pendulum used in the concept is more than 300 years old. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-moroccan-tea-tray-mathematics-robots.html Software Mon, 16 Jan 2023 13:05:44 EST news593096741 More is not always better—sometimes, it's a problem. With highly complex data, which have many dimensions due to their numerous parameters, correlations are often no longer recognizable. Especially since experimentally obtained data are additionally disturbed and noisy due to influences that cannot be controlled. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-software-based-artificial-intelligence-complex.html Software Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:33:03 EST news590758381 Electronic devices made from the semiconductor gallium nitride stand to revolutionize wireless communications. They can operate at higher speeds and temperatures than devices made from silicon, so they can be used to control the higher frequency radio waves needed for faster and higher bandwidth data transfer. In addition, their ability to withstand much lower temperatures makes them promising for use in quantum computing. To realize the material's full potential, though, accurate modeling and simulation tools are needed to guide scientists and engineers designing new devices. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-fermi-kinetics-high-speed-semiconductor-devices.html Software Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:13:11 EST news590692387 Researchers from EPFL and ETH Zurich, working together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Bin Khalifa Unversity (Qatar), have developed a program that can generate population density estimates with unparalleled precision, and only needs a rough estimate at the regional level to learn. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-ai-enables-effective-humanitarian-action.html Software Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:57:46 EST news590072262 Cornell University researchers have created an interface that allows users to handwrite and sketch within computer code—a challenge to conventional coding, which typically relies on typing. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-11-tool-code.html Software Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:01:35 EST news588877257 Many computer systems that people interact with on a daily basis require knowledge about certain aspects of the world, or models, to work. These systems have to be trained, often needing to learn how to recognize objects from video or image data. This data frequently contains superfluous content that reduces the accuracy of models. So, researchers found a way to incorporate natural hand gestures into the teaching process. This way, users can more easily teach machines about objects, and the machines can also learn more effectively. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-software-nonspecialists-intuitively-machines-gestures.html Software Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:10:01 EDT news586430420 Robotic systems are set to be introduced in a wide range of real-world settings, ranging from roads to malls, offices, airports, and healthcare facilities. To perform consistently well in these environments, however, robots should be able to cope well with uncertainty, adapting to unexpected changes in their surrounding environment while ensuring the safety of nearby humans. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-definition-classification-taxonomy-safety-critical-self-adaptive.html Software Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:00:01 EDT news585562884 Three researchers at University of Waterloo in Canada have recently developed a unique comic authoring tool that can automatically create stories and comics based on code. This system, called CodeToon, could open interesting possibilities for code-driven storytelling, the process of using computational code to create new stories. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-codetoon-tool-automatically-stories-comics.html Software Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:30:03 EDT news584700324 The security of data relies on the use of proper, well-executed cryptography—the science and art of constructing algorithms that make information safe from prying and possibly malicious eyes. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-off-the-shelf-crypto-detectors-false.html Software Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:12:03 EDT news582369122 Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed an open-source software that enables more agile movement in legged robots. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-open-source-software-leg-robot.html Software Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:39:36 EDT news579879570 Trolls, haters, flamers and other ugly characters are, unfortunately, a fact of life across much of the internet. Their ugliness ruins social media networks and sites like Reddit and Wikipedia. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-toxicity-open-source-varies-internet-forums.html Internet Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:55:03 EDT news575654101 Soon, computers could sense that users have a problem and come to the rescue. This is one of the possible implications of new research at University of Copenhagen and University of Helsinki. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-electric-human-brains-software-computerized.html Software Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:41:36 EDT news575293292 Adding an organic matter power source to a solar energy unit could provide 100% heating for a single-story home during the coldest months of the year and help the environment. In the warmer months, the system could generate electricity surpluses that can be sold back to the grid. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-solar-biomass-hybrid-home-requirements-winter.html Software Tue, 31 May 2022 13:04:13 EDT news573221051 Three-dimensional (3D) mapping is a very useful tool, such as for monitoring construction sites, tracking the effects of climate change on ecosystems and verifying the safety of roads and bridges. However, the technology currently used to automate the mapping process is limited, making it a long and costly endeavor. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-piece-faster-cheaper-accurate-3d.html Software Thu, 19 May 2022 10:55:11 EDT news572176506 Snapfeet is a new mobile phone app that shows how well shoes will fit based on the 3D shape of the user's foot. It also offers a simple augmented reality (AR) visualization of what the shoes will look like on the feet. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-mobile-app-based-3d-user.html Software Thu, 05 May 2022 12:40:41 EDT news570973236 As an expert in building a safer and fairer internet, Rutgers Assistant Professor Shagun Jhaver long suspected that digital content creators from minority groups suffered disproportionate online harassment. But when he heard about a 35-year-old Brazilian YouTuber who suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized after a barrage of digital hate, he decided to do something about it. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-free-comment-moderation-software-youtube.html Internet Tue, 03 May 2022 16:07:27 EDT news570812845 You are standing in an apartment when you hear on the news that an earthquake has struck. Soon you feel your body sway and the ground starts to shake, the intensity increasing until the shelves on the walls and items on the table fall off. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-tremors-feet-ocean-bed-vr.html Software Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:10:01 EST news565355349 Light-matter interactions form the basis of many important technologies, including lasers, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and atomic clocks. However, usual computational approaches for modeling such interactions have limited usefulness and capability. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a technique that overcomes these limitations. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-01-light-matter-interactions-simulated-world-fastest.html Software Thu, 06 Jan 2022 07:26:41 EST news560676399 Computer maintenance workers at Kyoto University have announced that due to an apparent bug in software used to back up research data, researchers using the University's Hewlett-Packard Cray computing system, called Lustre, have lost approximately 77 terabytes of data. The team at the University's Institute for Information Management and Communication posted a Failure Information page detailing what is known so far about the data loss. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-01-bug-backup-software-results-loss.html Software Tue, 04 Jan 2022 08:40:02 EST news560506307