MLAB researchers submit their entries for the Art of Science competition
by Martinraj Nadar | Friday, Oct 11, 2024
Student researchers Juan Merlos and Jefferson Charles submitted their entries for the Art of Science competition under the supervision of Ashan Perera. The Art of Science showcases original images and footage of the inherent beauty in research, scholarship and creative activity across Florida Atlantic University. Its contest opens once a year to all members of the Florida Atlantic community (faculty, students, staff and postdocs). Here are the entries along with the descriptions explaining research surrounding it:
Colorful Canine Vision: The warm corners of Engineering East as witnessed through the lens of Artificial Intelligence, embodied in the form of a robot dog. The video is a combination of color footage, depth perception and AI recognition. It is homologous to the perception of the world seen through the eyes of a human being as they sense varied subjects and objects in the environment they are in. Vision is one of the most powerful senses in humans, visual experiences seem to have profound implications on how we perceive information. Through our research we aim to create autonomous machines that assist in a variety of tasks that would typically rely on human vision.
AI Spots an Owl: Artificial intelligence (AI) can "see" the world very differently than humans can. The recent boom in AI technology is letting people use their cameras in new ways. One example is a research camp in South Africa that is interested in using AI for wildlife monitoring on their reserves. It is important for humans to understand how cameras with AI truly see animals before we can trust using them. To demonstrate this, we start with a video of a flying owl. By giving it to an AI algorithm, we overlay the regions that the AI understand as important for recognizing the owl in the video. While humans may pay attention to details such as its face and wings, AI may be watching other parts more closely. This challenges our ideas of perception and can greatly impact how we use AI in the real world.
Who Let the Dogs Out: Come dance along to the beats of our lab’s sophisticated robot dogs as they groove to one of the most influential bands in grunge rock- Nirvana. The robots leverage Artificial Intelligence to emulate the behaviors of canine friends. They respond to commands in the same way a real dog would and mimic the motion mechanics of a real dog. Apart from the typical dog behaviors, the robots can store and process information more efficiently and produce it in a human readable form when compared to regular dogs. The research aims to explore new avenues in the world of human-machine interactions.
