Rare gifted word-learner dogs like to share their toys

This time around, the group recruited 10 GWL dogs and 21 non-GWL dogs, all border collies, since this is the most common breed to fall into the GWL category. They compiled a list of eight toys: two ...

Horses with over 30 minutes of REM sleep show better persistence in learning tasks

Just as for humans, sufficient sleep supports learning and coping for horses. A recent study at the University of Helsinki indicates that short periods of REM sleep impair horses' perseverance and ...
Tech Xplore

Robot hand approaches human-like dexterity with new visual-tactile training

Human hands are a wonder of nature and unmatched in the animal kingdom. They can twist caps, flick switches, handle tiny objects with ease, and perform thousands of tasks every day. Robot hands ...
Physics World

Transfer learning could help muon tomography identify illicit nuclear materials

Muons tend to scatter more from high-atomic-number materials, so the technique is particularly sensitive to the presence of materials such as uranium. As a result, it has been used to create systems ...

3D scanning and shape analysis help archaeologists connect objects across space and time to recover their lost histories

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis—not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass cases ...

How children’s play with everyday objects can encourage skills needed for STEM success

Asking children to explain what they are building or allowing them time to explore without interruption can deepen the STEM learning embedded in play.
Frontiers

Multi-modal Learning with Large-scale Models

Robot perception and cognition often rely on the integration of information from multiple sensory modalities, such as vision, ...
IEEE

Active Learning for Object Detection With Vectorized Dual Pseudo Loss and Multiple Instance Offset Constraint

Abstract: Existing active learning methods for object detection face challenges, such as the lack of ground truth labels for regression loss, insufficient representation of unlabeled instance samples ...
cursus.edu

Learning with objects, an object lesson

At a time when adult education is being digitized at breakneck speed, a counter-trend is asserting itself: that of a return to the body, to materiality and to objects as living supports for learning.
Purdue University

Outcomes and Objectives

Learning outcomes and objectives are the fundamental elements of most well-designed courses. Well-conceived outcomes and objectives serve as guideposts to help instructors work through the design of a ...
IEEE

Toward Realistic Hierarchical Object Detection: Problem, Benchmark, and Solution

Abstract: With the continuous advancement of deep learning, object detection has made remarkable progress in accurately identifying a wide range of object categories, even within increasingly complex ...