Small imperfections in a wine glass or tiny creases in a contact lens can be tricky to make out, even in good light. In almost total darkness, images of such transparent features or objects are nearly ...

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The Gimp provides the Rectangle, Ellipse and Lasso selection tools to help you cut out specific parts of a photo or illustration to keep, eliminate or edit. In addition, if you add an Alpha channel to ...

Robots and other automated systems have always had trouble visually gauging the 3D shape of transparent objects, like those made of glass. A new system addresses that problem, by using a laser to ...

The research team led by Masakazu Ohara, graduate student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology (student in the Leading Program doctoral program); ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at an AI-generated image, marveling at its creativity, but wishing it could seamlessly fit into your project without that pesky background? You’re not alone.

Robots have got pretty good at picking up objects. But give them something shiny or clear, and the poor droids will likely lose their grip. Not ideal if you want a kitchen robot that can slice you a ...