Want to listen in on a juicy conversation? Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Microsoft, and Adobe have designed an algorithm that can pick up conversation by analyzing the vibrations from speech as they ripple through a potato chip bag, MIT News reports. more
In 2020, the potato chip bag became a visual eavesdropping device too...
Mirrors aren't the only shiny objects that reflect our surroundings. Turns out a humble bag of potato chips can pull off the same trick, as scientists from the University of Washington, Seattle have made it possible to recreate detailed images of the world from reflections in the snack's glossy wrapping.
The scientists took their work a step further by predicting how a room's likeness might appear from different angles, essentially "exploring" the room's reflection in a bag of chips as if they were actually present. This is analogous to a classical problem in computer vision and graphics: view synthesis, or the ability to create a new, synthetic view of a specific subject based on other images, taken at various angles. more
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