In this picture, on the second road from the left, the cars seem to be moving a bit. I guess it's related to the effect of "red expanding" and the "snake illusion effect" as in Akiyoshi Kitaoka's "Rotating illusory sakura" psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/saku…

A Univ. of Maryland expert in computer vision and world-renowned concert violinist are collaborating on the development of vAIolin—a violin teaching platform powered by artificial intelligence. Watch the full video: youtu.be/A3WsyQJqNfc

Announcing the first seminar in the NeuroPAC series: Forum on Neuromorphic Navigation with panelists: Andrew Davidson (Imperial College London) Kostas Daniilidis (Penn GRASP Laboratory), Michael Milford, FTSE 🤖🚘🐀🧠📘🗣️ (QUT) Tue, April 18, 2023, 19:00 – 20:30 GMT, 21:00 CET, 15:00 ET neuropac.info/seminars/

An article in Quanta magazine quantamagazine.org/a-new-approach… describes the approach of Hyperdimensional Computing, and cites Pentti Kanerva, Bruno Olshausen (@RedWood_Neuro), Abbas Rahimi, Xun Jiao (Villanova Engineering) and myself.

Enjoyed the article direct.mit.edu/neco/article/3… by Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute) on LLMs. Terry suggests that LLMs may be a mirror that reflects the intelligence of the interviewer. Later sections make interesting connections to neuroscience and suggest future research.

Announcing the Forum on Neuromorphic Control, Tuesday, May 16, 15:00 - 16:30 ET with R. Sepulchre (Cambridge University ), M. Heemels (TU Eindhoven), and J. Cortez (UCSD Engineering). neuropac.info/seminars/

Last week, our project with Irina Muresanu on AI-assisted violin education was featured in the media, showing nicely the team effort between UMIACS and University of Maryland Music that has gone over the last 3+ years into this effort: WTOP wtop.com/maryland/2024/…­, WJLA wjla.com/news/local/art…