AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...
IEEE

Change Detection in Remote Sensing Optical Images Using a SPSA-Based Improved Random Forest Algorithm

Abstract: A precise change detection in the multi-temporal optical images is considered as a crucial task. Although a variety of machine learning-based change detection algorithms have been proposed ...
CNN

‘Bugonia’ took Emma Stone – and her algorithm – to some pretty weird places

Emma Stone’s algorithm is playing up again. The two-time Academy Award winner reported in May that she was being fed a load of “crazy sh*t” online since researching her part as a woman swept up by a ...
Business Insider

TikTok insiders and creators worry its powerful algorithm could lose its magic after a sale

TikTok's owner, ByteDance, is expected to sell its US business to a buyer consortium. The new owners will retrain TikTok's content-recommendation algorithm, the White House said. TikTok staffers and ...
IndieWire

Nobody Brags About an Algorithm: As Awards Embrace All Platforms, Everybody Wins

The Peabody Awards, aka the Pulitzers of broadcasting, now accept submissions from direct-to-consumer platforms. That's a welcome addition to the brave new world. My recent conversations with YouTube ...
New Scientist

Kids as young as 4 innately use sorting algorithms to solve problems

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...
cbs12.com

Florida man walks into random home unleashes gunfire on residents, killing one

Wind advisory and cold weather advisories issued as strong cold front approaches A Wind Advisory is in effect today for all of east central Florida as a strong cold front moves through the region, ...
Harvard Medical School

AI and Algorithms in Contemporary Fine Art

The Data | Art Symposium co-organized by Kim Albrecht and Jeffrey Schnapp brought together artists and technologists to explore the interplay of algorithms and the aesthetic. Event coverage from ...
Harvard Medical School

Noah Giansiracusa On The Algorithms That Run Your Life

Noah Giansiracusa joins ThinkersOne's Six Pixels of Separation to discuss how users can reclaim control over their tech-mediated lives by garnering a stronger understanding of how algorithms work, and ...
Complex

Lizzo Blames Social Media Algorithms for Lack of ‘Song of the Summer’

Lizzo opened the floor to those questioning the state of the music industry in a recent TikTok. On Friday (September 5), the four-time Grammy winner introduced herself as someone with "multiple number ...
NBC Montana

New wildfires burning in Lolo National Forest

LOLO NATIONAL FOREST — Lolo National Forest officials report multiple small wildfire starts in the area. Officials say the Howell Fire, located a mile and a half south of the Butte Cabin Trailhead in ...