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Mark Peters : 2007-09-03 22:55:39
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Best Space Photo captured at Mount Palomar : A team of astronomers led by Cambridge University have taken some of the best space photos of the stars that are sharper than anything produced by the Hubble telescope, at 50 thousandths of the cost. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), used a technique called “Lucky Imaging” to take the most detailed space photos of stars and nebulae ever produced - using a camera based on the ground at Mount Palomar. Space Photos from ground based telescopes are usually blurred by the Earth’s atmosphere - the same effect that makes the stars appear to twinkle when we look at them with the naked eye.
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Mark Peters : 2007-08-02 13:33:00
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Fraunhofer Institute develops facial analysis system : How do regular people respond when they walk past an advertising poster? Do they stop and turn around to look at it with interest or march angrily past? A new system of detailed facial analysis can recognize a person’s mood in an instant. An advertisement for a new perfume is hanging in the departure lounge of an airport. Thousands of people walk past it every day. Some stop and stare in astonishment, others walk by, clearly amused. And then there are those who seem puzzled when they look at the poster advertisement. With the help of a small digital video camera, the facial analysis system automatically localizes the faces of everyone who walks past the advertisement.
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