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Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls

We generate Foley sounds for silent videos withvarious control signals to shape their audio. (a) Text prompts, both positive and negative, guide synchronized Foley generation. (b) Referenceaudio from sound libraries defines the customized audio style. (c) A partial audio track is extended to produce a complete Foley sound.

November 30, 2024
Video-Guided Foley Sound Generation with Multimodal Controls
How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture

Indigenous languages are rapidly disappearing, and AI could help preserve them, according to Indigenous technologists.

November 30, 2024
How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture
Hyundai Motor & Kia unveil wearable robot for workers

The wearable robot is estimated to reduce shoulder load by up to 60% and reduce muscle strain in the anterior/lateral deltoid by 30%.

November 30, 2024
Hyundai Motor & Kia unveil wearable robot for workers
Augmented dexterity: How robots can enhance human surgical skills

These advances have the potential to allow augmented dexterity to make surgery safer, faster, and more reliable for patients worldwide.

November 30, 2024
Augmented dexterity: How robots can enhance human surgical skills
AI-Powered Communication Solution for People Living With ALS Revealed at Lenovo Tech World

Traditional voice banking is an arduous process…Past models also suffered from a clear lack of emotional expressiveness…but AI has changed all that. Now, limited audio samples, even of poor quality, can generate a compelling, on-demand AI voice.

November 29, 2024
AI-Powered Communication Solution for People Living With ALS Revealed at Lenovo Tech World
Chinese cat robot built to always stick landing could revolutionise asteroid mining, scientists say

The robot is capable of moving its four legs in a coordinated manner and can adjust its posture mid-air to stick landings, according to the study, published last month in the Journal of Astronautical Sciences.

November 28, 2024
Chinese cat robot built to always stick landing could revolutionise asteroid mining, scientists say
Artificial intelligence finds previously undetected historical climate extremes

Now researchers have unleashed artificial intelligence (AI) on these datasets to analyze temperature extremes in Europe, finding excellent agreement compared to existing results that used traditional methods, and as well have uncovered climate extremes not previously known.

November 28, 2024
Artificial intelligence finds previously undetected historical climate extremes
To keep cranberries on your Thanksgiving table, scientists use AI to ‘scale up and be more efficient’—it offers ‘huge time savings’

…sort through thousands of cranberry varieties, or cultivars, to find those with the best combination of heat-resistance and quality — taking into account traits like taste, coloring, fruit yield and the ability to withstand disease — before they can try selectively breeding new varieties using the most desirable traits…Scientific endeavors like this one often take years to perfect. With temperatures continuing to rise each year, that means time is of the essence. Using AI to offload some of the most laborious work represents “a huge time savings…

November 28, 2024
To keep cranberries on your Thanksgiving table, scientists use AI to ‘scale up and be more efficient’—it offers ‘huge time savings’
Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results

Like human experts, when LLMs indicated high confidence in their predictions, their responses were more likely to be correct, which presages a future where LLMs assist humans in making discoveries.

November 27, 2024
Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results
AI Dash Cams Give Wake-Up Calls to Drowsy Drivers

Innovative tech detects driver fatigue and signals them to take a break.

November 26, 2024
AI Dash Cams Give Wake-Up Calls to Drowsy Drivers