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 ...

Data-driven analysis reveals three archetypes of armed conflicts

The language used to describe conflicts naturally reflects assumptions about how different forms of violence emerge and ...

Data science roles in the industry

Who is a data scientist? What does he do? What steps are involved in executing an end-to-end data science project? What roles are available in the industry? Will I need to be a good ...

AI boosts bird sound identification accuracy

In a study conducted at the University of Helsinki, AI was trained to classify bird sounds with increasing accuracy. The ...
Live Science

New electrochemical method splits water with electricity to produce hydrogen fuel — and cuts energy costs in the process

Scientists have developed a new technique that doubles the amount of hydrogen produced when splitting water molecules with electricity. The method works by adding a simple organic molecule and a ...
Medical Xpress

Staying fit over Christmas using science-backed methods

The festive season has a reputation for undoing good habits such as eating well and exercising. Normal routines disappear, days become less structured and exercise habits can fade. The solution to ...
CNN

Science got peanut allergies all wrong – until the scientific method got it right

It was a question Dr. Gideon Lack asked often, when giving lectures to fellow allergists and pediatricians on the topic of food allergies: How many doctors in the room had a patient allergic to ...
IEEE

Methods for Preprocessing and Classification of Text Data in Question-Answer Information Systems

Abstract: A brief overview of natural language processing algorithms is presented as a field that is capable of categorizing text messages in natural language, and the sequence of steps in classifying ...
Inc

Science Says the ‘Military Sleep Method’ Really Works, but There’s a Catch

At the time, I shared the advice based on the recommendation of a performance coach and several sleep-deprived individuals who had given it a try. I’m happy to report science has now confirmed the ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
The Daily Tar Heel

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence. According to a Q and A webpage ...
Frontiers

Improving remote sensing scene classification with data augmentation techniques to mitigate class imbalance

1 Qingdao Huanghai University, Qingdao, China 2 College of Geodesy and Geomatics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China High-resolution remote sensing imagery is a powerful ...