Artificial intelligence makes blurry faces look more than 60 times sharper. Duke Today, June 12, 2020. Researchers have developed an AI tool that can turn blurry faces into eerily convincing computer-generated portraits, in finer detail than ever before. Picked up by Newsweek, Inverse, ZME Science, the Independent, and the Daily Mail.
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These students taught a computer to detect COVID-19 in lung scans
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These students taught a computer to detect COVID-19 in lung scans. Duke Today, May 31, 2020. A lot of illnesses can look like COVID-19 in a CT scan. Duke students built an AI tool to spot telltale signs of the virus and flag cases that swab tests miss.
A.I. birdwatcher lets you see through the eyes of a machine
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This A.I. birdwatcher lets you ‘see’ through the eyes of a machine. Duke Today, October 31, 2019. It can take years of birdwatching experience to tell one species from the next. But using an artificial intelligence technique called deep learning, Duke University researchers have trained a computer to identify up to 200 species of birds from just a photo. This tool goes beyond giving the right answer to explain its thinking in a way that even someone who doesn’t know a penguin from a puffin can understand. Picked up by BBC Digital Planet and MIT Technology Review.