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Present-day vehicles are more than just a mode of transportation. They’re also your office, entertainment center, and mobile device charging station.
It’s essential to have all the necessary tech upgrades to stay connected with friends and family while on the road. These critical upgrades will help you do just that. [Read more…] about Your Car: Essential Tech Upgrades to Make Now
Columbia engineers demonstrate that AI systems might reach higher performance if programmed with sound files of human language rather than with binary data labels. (See video below.)
The digital revolution is built on a foundation of invisible 1s and 0s called bits.
As decades pass, and more and more of the world’s information and knowledge morph into streams of 1s and 0s, the notion that computers prefer to “speak” in binary numbers is rarely questioned.
According to new research from Columbia Engineering, this could be about to change. [Read more…] about Deep learning networks prefer the human voice – just like we do
The discovery’s potential applications include self-driving cars, smartphones that can guide the visually impaired and drones that can help firefighters at night
As the industry for self-driving cars, robots and other unmanned vehicles quickly evolves – and engineers work to overcome the limitations of sensors that use visual, infrared or thermal information – math experts at Purdue University and the Technical University of Munich have proven there’s another, equally viable solution: using sound.
Mireille “Mimi” Boutin, associate professor of mathematics at Purdue University, and Gregor Kemper, professor of algorithmic algebra at Technical University, found that a drone equipped with four microphones and a loudspeaker can precisely reconstruct the wall configuration of a room by listening to echoes, similar to how bats use echolocation to orient themselves.
Their work is significant because it demonstrates the feasibility of using sound for navigation in unmanned systems, leading to many potential applications such as cars, drones, underwater vehicles or even devices that people can carry, such as a smartphone. [Read more…] about Math experts use drones to show it’s possible to ‘see’ perfectly using sound
Vehicle acoustics are steadily gaining traction as a quality criterion in today’s cars.
When a vehicle is in motion, audible or perceptible vibrations emanating from individual components can cause annoying automotive noise conveyed by the vehicle’s structure and rendered as airborne sound.
Acoustics experts refer to this phenomenon as NVH, which is short for noise, vibration, harshness.
[Read more…] about Bosch Engineering opens vehicle acoustics test centre
