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Augmented reality headset enables users to see hidden objects

The device could help workers locate objects for fulfilling e-commerce orders or identify parts for assembling products.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Amazon MARS 2022: Day 2 Keynote

Be inspired by Rohit Prasad, SVP and Head Scientist, Alexa AI, Amazon, Tye Brady, Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics, Dilip Kumar, VP, Phy…
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Biomarker Imaging with Mobile Phones

We built a low-cost and open source 405 nm imaging device to capture red fluorescence signatures associated with the oral biomarker porphyr…
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Near-Infrared Imaging for Detecting Dental Caries

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for early …
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Non-Ionizing Imaging for Medical Diagnosis Instead of 2D Radiography and Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for early …
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Machine Learning and Automated Segmentation of Oral Diseases Using Biomarker Images

We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a f…
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Machine Learning from Biomarker Signatures and Correlation to Systemic Health Conditions

Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automated…
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data so…
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Helping Emergency Care Physicians Diagnose Sepsis and Bacterial Infections with Machine Learning and Vision

General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significant…
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Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA),  have develope…
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Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optical …
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Using Shadows to See Behind Objects

The full text of our paper is available here.Sometimes the thing that we want to see is hidden behind something else. A neighboring vehicl…
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Privacy-Preserving Depressive Symptoms Estimation

The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ priva…
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Robot overcomes uncertainty to retrieve buried objects

This robotic system uses radio frequency signals, computer vision, and complex reasoning to efficiently find items hidden under a pile.
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ZoomADay - AI Synthesized Characters

#ZoomADay was a year long project exploring the creation and use of synthetic characters and deep fakes for use in online telepresence and …
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the impac…
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Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…
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DISSECT: Disentangled Simultaneous Explanationsvia Concept Traversals

One of the principal benefits of counterfactual explanations is allowing users to explore "what-if" scenarios through what does not and can…
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UncNet: Modeling uncertainty in deep learning for inherently subjective tasks

Automatic emotion recognition has become a well-established machine learning task in recent years. The sensitive and subjective nature of e…
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Behavioral Indications of Depression Severity

In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depressi…
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Image2Reverb: Cross-Modal Reverb Impulse Response Synthesis

Image2Reverb: Cross-Modal Reverb Impulse Response Synthesis. Nikhil Singh, Jeff Mentch, Jerry Ng, Matthew Beveridge, Iddo Drori; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 286-295
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Turning Objects into Cameras

Consider a small object sitting on a desk in your living room. The object is illuminated by light sources from all directions—this includes…
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ELSA: Empathy learning, socially-aware agents

What is ELSA?ELSA is an AI-powered chatbot that acts as an empathetic companion, encouraging users to talk about their day through a form o…
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RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning

Tara Boroushaki, Isaac Perper, Mergen Nachin, Alberto Rodriguez, Fadel Adib. "RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning." ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems 2021.
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RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning

RFusion is a robotic system that can search for and retrieve items in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and fully occluded settings. It con…
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Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception

Boroushaki, Tara, et al. "Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021).
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Tangible Swarm: see the unseen

Tangible Swarm is a tool that displays relevant information about a robotics system (e.g., multi-robot, swarm, etc.) in real time whil…
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A robot that finds your lost stuff and more AI-enabled gadgets to come

The WSJ covers research from the Signal Kinetics group and other labs, universities, and companies working on AI-enabled devices.
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Automated end-to-end deep learning framework for classification and tumor localization from native nonstained pathology images

Akram Bayat, Connor Anderson and Pratik Shah. "Automated end-to-end deep learning framework for classification and tumor localization from native nonstained pathology images," Proc. SPIE 11596, Medical Imaging 2021: Image Processing, 115960A (15 February 2021); doi: 10.1117/12.2582303
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RF-Grasp: Robotic Grasping of Hidden Objects

 Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as th…
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A robot that senses hidden objects

System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.
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ACM ByteCast: Ramesh Raskar

Camera Culture head Ramesh Raskar talks to Rashmi Mohan about his interdisciplinary research and entrepreneurial endeavors.
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Imaging Behind Occluders Using Two-Bounce Light

Henley, C., Maeda, T., Swedish, T., & Raskar, R. (2020). Imaging Behind Occluders Using Two-Bounce Light. Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 573-588. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58526-6_34
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Bringing construction projects to the digital world

The startup OpenSpace is using 360-degree cameras and computer vision to create comprehensive digital replicas of construction sites.
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Streetchange

Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change

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Algorithmic Justice League

www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This for…
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SuperGlue Kinesics

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, channe…
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Byte.it

Discreet Teeth Gestures for Mobile Device InteractionByte.it is a miniaturized, discreet interface that uses teeth gestures for hands-free …
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Looking Around Corners

Using a femtosecond laser and a camera with a time resolution of about one trillion frames per second, we recover objects hidden out of sig…
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The Electome: Measuring responsiveness in the 2016 election

The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content and…
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When the Robot Doesn’t See Dark Skin

A.I. systems are shaped by the priorities and prejudices…of the people who design them, a phenomenon that I refer to as "the coded gaze."
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CityScope PlayGround: MIT East Campus

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for th…
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GeoBits

This is an open source geospatial exploration tool. Using various public APIs including Open Street Map and the United States Census, we ca…
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Depth-sensing imaging system can peer through fog

MIT researchers have developed a system that can produce images of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human vision can’t penetrate it.
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Seeing Through Realistic Fog

Seeing through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that is similar to LI…
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Singapore Pedestrian Accessibility

This project focused on pedestrian accessibility in collaboration with Singapore Centre for Liveable Cities. Researchers and planners came …
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GSK Places Initiative

This project is part of a parallel research endeavor with GSK Manufacturing. By simulating how scientists at the Upper Providence site inte…
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GSK Manufacturing Initiative

This project is the first of two projects in collaboration with GSK. We are developing a computational simulation that allows a human user …
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CityScope Riyadh

We recently led a workshop in Saudi Arabia, with staff from the Riyadh Development Authority, to test a new version of our CityScope platfo…
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The Story Learning Machine

The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models with…
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"Bits and Bricks" Wins Best Demo Award at IEEE Future Technologies Conference

Ira Winder and the Tactile Matrix won the award for best demonstration at the IEEE Future Technologies Conference.
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Black Panther Face Scorecard: Wakandans under the Coded Gaze of AI

A case study implemented by Inioluwa Raji under the guidance of Joy Buolamwini
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If you’re a darker-skinned woman, this is how often facial-recognition software decides you’re a man

All people are created equal, but in the eyes of the algorithm, not all faces are just yet.A new study from MIT and Microsoft res…
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Even when spotting gender, current face recognition tech works better for white dudes

A new review of face recognition software found that, when identifying gender, the software is most accurate for men with light skin&n…
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Joy Buolamwini: How does facial recognition software see skin color?
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Why facial recognition software has trouble recognizing people of color
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Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial artificial-intelligence systems

Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
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Facial recognition software is biased towards white men, researcher finds

New research out of MIT’s Media Lab is underscoring what other experts have reported or at least suspected before: facial recognition techn…
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Last Mile Logistics

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a simu…
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MIT creates an AI to predict urban decay

Facebook volunteers and work-at-home moms might be making city planning decisions, thanks to AI research conducted by MIT scientists. Resea…
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Computer vision shows how Brooklyn streets really are changing

Using computer vision to examine Google Street View, the researchers analyzed how streets and blocks have changed in five American cities.
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Mit Media Lab Uses Machine Learning to Analyze How Neighborhoods Improve

Tested with five American cities, Streetchange quantifies the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods.
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Why Neighborhoods Get Better: Research Provides Insights That May Surprise You

A recently published paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) looks at factors that predict neighborhood change.