Video: Police catch man using live facial recognition after he failed to turn up for court The Metropolitan Police say since static LFR cameras were deployed in Croydon, they've made over 170 arrests, including suspects wanted for kidnap, rape, and serious sexual assault. Read more
Abstract Most of the existing studies on the intellectualization of traditional culture focus on fields such as image recognition and style transfer. The research on intelligent generation of traditional cultural art design (CAD) texts is scattered and lacks systematicness. To this end, this study conducts research on intelligent text generation in traditional CAD based on the attention mechanism. First, the research status and limitations of the attention mechanism, intelligent text generation, and digitalization of traditional culture are sorted out. Then, a multi-source dataset of traditional art design feature-text pairs is constructed. Next, an improved Transformer model is designed. Based on the standard encoder-decoder framework, a cultural semantic attention layer, a multi-scale temporal convolutional network style constraint module, and an output verification layer are added. Meanwhile, the dynamic weight calculation of the cultural semantic attention layer and the multi-scale feature fusion of the style module are optimized. The results show that the Bilingual Evaluation Understudy-3 (BLEU-3) score of the proposed Attention-based CAD (Attn-CAD) model reaches 0.72. The cultural terminology accuracy is 92.5%, and the style matching degree is 89.3%, with the best performance in the ceramic field. Ablation experiments verify the necessity of the core modules, and the decline rates of indicators in cross-domain tests are all less than 5%, which proves the model’s universality. In terms of methodology, this study solves the core problem of weak semantic association of the general model in traditional cultural scenarios and insufficient terminology accuracy of general models in traditional cultural scenarios; it provides technical support for the living inheritance and digital innovation of traditional culture. Similar content being viewed by others Author information Authors and Affiliations Corresponding author Ethics declarations Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests. Ethics statement The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, the studies involving
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In Oregon, body-camera footage obtained by the group Innovation Law Lab shows federal immigration agents pulling over a van of farmworkers, then smashing the windows and using a facial recognition app to identify and arrest the workers without a warrant. The footage was disclosed as part of a class-action lawsuit filed against the agents’ violent tactics and racial profiling following the farmworkers’ detention in October. In related news, activists say at least 20 immigrants jailed at the Desert View Annex ICE detention facility in Adelanto, California, have started a hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions, including medical neglect and unsafe drinking water. Immigrants also say food portions have been reduced, forcing them to have to purchase items sold in the commissary at exorbitant prices. The Adelanto ICE jail is operated by the private prison company GEO Group. At least four immigrants have died there since September.
Jeffrey Kessler, a heavyweight in antitrust litigation who most recently secured a landmark win for states suing Live Nation, will defend Paramount‘s $110 billion megadeal for Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio doesn’t expect legal challenges from the Justice Department, state prosecutors or foreign regulators, though Kessler would lead the studio’s defense if any are filed, according to a person familiar with the situation. The addition of Kessler bolsters Paramount’s formidable legal team, led by Makan Delrahim, Trump’s former assistant attorney general for antitrust. Also representing the studio: David Gelfand, ex-deputy assistant attorney general for litigation in the antitrust division under former President Barack Obama, and lawyers at Latham & Watkins and Cravath, Swaine & Moore who have been seeking regulatory approval of the deal. On Friday, a federal judge accepted Kessler’s application to represent the studio in a lawsuit filed by consumers challenging merger. The case is the opening salvo over the purchase that will reshape Hollywood. In a statement, Kessler called the complaint “baseless” and said it “resorts to political scaremongering that is both inaccurate and irrelevant to the antitrust analysis.” “What we do learn from the complaint is that there is no credible antitrust case to be brought against the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger,” he added. “In my many years of practice championing competition and the interests of consumers, athletes, and workers, I have rarely seen such a weak case seeking to block a transaction.” Kessler, co-executive chair of Winston & Strawn, is known for taking on plaintiff-side work. He won in 2019 a first-of-its-kind antitrust lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association on behalf of student-athletes. The decision cracked open the door for them to profit off of their name, image and likeness, a seismic shift in college sports. Last year, Kessler was brought in to represent a
U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Christopher Griste, 20th Fighter Wing command chief, renders a salute to first sergeants in a diamond formation assigned to Shaw Air Force Base during his retirement at Shaw AFB, South Carolina, May 21, 2026. The diamond formation, a rare honor reserved for retired Air Force first sergeants, recognized Griste's commitment to shaping the careers of Airmen throughout his career. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Will Sherwood) | Date Taken: | 05.21.2026 | | Date Posted: | 05.22.2026 16:57 | | Photo ID: | 9703372 | | VIRIN: | 260521-F-YP125-1366 | | Resolution: | 2845x1897 | | Size: | 1.4 MB | | Location: | SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, SOUTH CAROLINA, US | | Web Views: | 3 | | Downloads: | 0 | This work, Chief Master Sgt. Griste Retirement Ceremony [Image 10 of 10], by Amn Will Sherwood, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
Brig. Gen. Beth A. Behn, TACOM commanding general, presents Tausha Knowlin with a Civilian Service Achievement Medal certificate during the April 16, 2026, Retirement, Recognition and Retreat ceremony. (Carl Jones/U.S. Army photo) | Date Taken: | 04.15.2024 | | Date Posted: | 05.22.2026 16:59 | | Photo ID: | 9703340 | | VIRIN: | 240416-D-BA910-7780 | | Resolution: | 2921x2337 | | Size: | 2.27 MB | | Location: | WARREN, MICHIGAN, US | | Web Views: | 5 | | Downloads: | 0 | This work, April 2026 TACOM town hall [Image 6 of 6], by Ann Zaniewski, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
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Pilots’ voices from the last seconds of a fatal cargo plane crash have been re-created by Internet sleuths using software and AI tools. The spread of reconstructed audio recordings has prompted a US government agency to suspend all public access to its database of civil transportation accidents—because federal law prohibits investigators from publicly releasing audio from cockpit voice recorders. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) usually shares factual reports and evidence gathered from investigations of aircraft crashes and other civil transportation incidents. But on May 21, the NTSB announced that the online docket system containing such information was “temporarily unavailable” as it reviewed the publicly available materials that had enabled people to re-create cockpit audio recordings from aircraft disasters. “The NTSB is aware that advances in image recognition and computational methods have enabled individuals to reconstruct approximations of cockpit voice recorder audio from sound spectrum imagery released as part of NTSB investigations, including the ongoing investigation of the crash last year of UPS flight 2976 in Louisville, Kentucky,” according to an NTSB statement. “The NTSB does not release cockpit audio recordings.” UPS flight 2976 was a United Parcel Service MD-11F cargo aircraft that crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville, Kentucky, on November 4, 2025, following a structural failure that led to an engine physically detaching as the aircraft left the ground. The three pilots aboard the aircraft, including a relief pilot, were killed. Another 12 people on the ground were killed, with 23 people being injured. The US Congress enacted a federal law in 1990 prohibiting the NTSB from publicly sharing any part of a cockpit voice or video recorder to protect the privacy of air crews. That law followed airline pilots’ pushback over the controversial TV station airing of a cockpit conversation relating to the August 1988 crash
(CNN) — New technology allowing audio of plane crashes to be extracted from still images has prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to take a rare step of pausing the public release of nearly all information related to its investigations. Cockpit voice recordings, often referred to as the CVR, capture everything commercial pilots say and are valuable during NTSB investigations, but are almost never released out of respect for the victims and their families. UPS flight 2976 crashed on November 4, when an engine separated from the wing while it was taking off from Louisville, Kentucky. The three crew members onboard were killed along with 12 people on the ground. During a two-day investigative hearing this week, the board released a docket full of details about the crash. Besides thousands of pages of reports and video showing the engine separating, it included a transcript of the CVR and a PDF file showing an analysis of the spectrogram of the audio it recorded. A spectrogram is a still image that is a visual representation of the audio, showing the ups and downs of the frequencies. Using that still image, members of the public were able to recreate the voices of the pilots in the moments before the plane crashed and post the results online. The clip, which included background noise and echoes, covered the last 30 seconds of the flight as the pilots struggled with the disabled aircraft as well as recordings of testing the NTSB did on another aircraft. In a statement on Thursday, the board made clear it “does not release cockpit voice recordings” due to federal law and because of the highly sensitive nature of what they include, but it was “aware that advances in image recognition and computational methods have enabled individuals to reconstruct approximations of cockpit
The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it has temporarily taken its public docket system offline after learning that image recognition and computational methods may allow individuals to reconstruct approximations of cockpit voice recorder audio from sound spectrum imagery released in accident investigations. The agency said the issue includes material released as part of its ongoing investigation into last year’s crash of UPS Flight 2976 in Louisville, Kentucky. “The NTSB does not release cockpit audio recordings,” the agency said on X. “Federal law prohibits such public release due to the highly sensitive nature of verbal communications inside the cockpit. The NTSB takes these privacy restrictions seriously. The NTSB docket system is temporarily unavailable as we examine the scope of the issue and evaluate solutions. We hope to restore access to the docket system as soon as possible.” The statement followed a two-day NTSB investigative hearing held May 19-20 on the Nov. 4, 2025, crash of the UPS MD-11F shortly after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. The three crewmembers aboard were killed, along with people on the ground. During the hearing, investigators said surveillance video showed the left engine and pylon separated after takeoff rotation, and testimony focused on maintenance reporting, continued operational safety processes, prior bearing findings and pylon design requirements. The NTSB has not issued a final report or probable cause. 0 replies
Nearly half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture, according to the World Economic Forum. Now, for the first time, every agricultural field on Earth has a boundary on a map, thanks to a novel model designed to infer field boundaries all over the world. Nathan Jacobs, a professor of computer science at WashU McKelvey Engineering and co-director of the WashU Geospatial Research Initiative, was part of a collaboration of academic and industry researchers who developed the model, which was funded and co-developed by Taylor Geospatial and the Microsoft AI for Good Lab. Their goal was to make geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) publicly available worldwide. Agricultural field boundary maps that define individual farm plots are important to monitor agriculture and help in making decisions, as well as mapping types of crops, estimating yields, surveilling for pests and diseases and tracking programs. Having updated maps would be a boon to agriculture and to food security worldwide, researchers said, but doing so isn’t simple due to variation in field size and type worldwide. The model, Practical Recipe for Field Boundary Segmentation at Scale, is published in a preprint for the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in June. Read more on the McKelvey Engineering website.
Hollywood Climate Summit will honor model, actress, and environmental activist Quannah ChasingHorse, scientist and writer Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Meredith Shea of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Universal Entertainment’s GreenerLight Program at its inaugural leadership ceremony set for June 3 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The seventh annual Hollywood Climate Summit runs June 3-4 with workshops, networking and cross-sector collaboration across climate and entertainment. The ceremony recognizes individuals and organizations driving environmental progress by “moving beyond conversation about sustainability and climate change to actively shaping how the entertainment industry responds,” the. organization said. “We want to thank these honorees for the leadership they’re bringing to how we respond to and act on climate change,” said HCS executive director Heather Fipps. “They’re innovating how climate issues connect with and are contextualized for the public, engaging our industry’s specific creative skills to advance the conversation, and building the resources, people power, and infrastructure this work needs to grow.” Watch on Deadline Shea is Chief of Membership, Impact, and Industry Officer at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Johnson is a biologist, climate expert and author of What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures. NBCU’s GreenerLight focuses on sustainability from script to screen across the studio’s creative slate and supports industry sustainability initiatives. HCS is also inviting submissions for the Hollywood Climate Summit Awards to be presented in partnership with Jackson Wild, the content-focused awards program that honors excellence in nature and climate storytelling. The joint awards ceremony will take place in Los Angeles in November, with submissions open through June 22. Hollywood Climate Summit is the flagship annual conference from nonprofit Context Collaborative. To date, it’s engaged over 40,000 creative professionals and 7,000 companies across 65 countries. Speakers this year
KITTERY, Maine (May 22, 2026) – Mark Wheeler, a forger at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has a flag flown in honor of his retirement. The flag was presented to Wheeler in recognition of his dedicated service to the shipyard and the Navy’s Mission. (U.S. Navy photo by Branden Bourque) | Date Taken: | 05.22.2026 | | Date Posted: | 05.22.2026 11:06 | | Photo ID: | 9702922 | | VIRIN: | 260522-N-VG694-1009 | | Resolution: | 1332x1665 | | Size: | 873.86 KB | | Location: | KITTERY, MAINE, US | | Web Views: | 5 | | Downloads: | 0 | This work, PNSY Retire Flag Mark Wheeler [Image 10 of 10], by Branden Bourque, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
NTSB docket down after cockpit audio from fatal UPS crash recreated The National Transportation and Safety Board announced its docket system is temporarily unavailable after people were able to recreate "approximations" of cockpit audio from UPS Flight 2976, according to a May 22 release. In the release, NTSB officials said the approximations were made with "image recognition and computational methods" using a visual representation of sound waves released as part of ongoing investigations. The NTSB does not release cockpit audio recordings. "Federal law prohibits such public release due to the highly sensitive nature of verbal communications inside the cockpit. The NTSB takes these privacy restrictions seriously," the release states. The docket system will be unavailable as NTSB officials examine the scope of the issue and evaluate potential solutions. This story may be updated.
Some of the biggest tech companies will now be held accountable for failing to act quickly when asked to remove non-consensual intimate images and videos. The Take It Down Act, signed by President Trump last year, went into effect on May 19. It gives victims of "revenge porn" a clear process to get non-consensual images and videos scrubbed from the internet as quickly as possible. The law criminalizes the sharing of any non-consensual, sexually explicit material involving an adult, as well as any intimate content involving a minor. It also includes any AI-generated or manipulated imagery of your likeness. Enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the government agency is not directly responsible for image removal. Instead, social media services, messaging apps, and websites must act on removal requests within 48 hours of receiving a report. Failure to do so could result in civil penalties of $53,088 per report. How to Request Nonconsensual Sexual Imagery Removal To start the process, you must ask the host to remove videos or images. You should contact the platform's support team as soon as possible. Many popular services now offer various ways to do so, including dedicated forms within support centers. Wired confirmed that LinkedIn, Reddit, Snap, and others allow you to use existing reporting tools to report this type of content. For example, on social media network X, you can report a post by pressing on the three-dot menu and selecting Report post > Private or Non-Consensual Content > Sharing a photo/video of me that I do not want on the platform. You then need to fill in another form stating who is included in the content. If a provider does not remove the content within 48 hours, you can file a complaint directly with the FTC on this website. You won't hear
Machine learning, computer vision, remote sensing, and data modeling techniques are used for studying and monitoring species, genetic diversity, and biodiversity ecosystems. AI models are used in camera traps, drone footage, and bioacoustics recordings to identify animals, plants, and insects from images, audio, and DNA data. Machine learning models estimate migration patterns, species population sizes, and extinction risks. Climate biodiversity modeling combines climate data and species data to predict ecosystem shift. The table below focuses on different AI technologies used for biodiversity applications. | AI Technology | User | Real-life Biodiversity Application | | Computer Vision | Wildlife Insights | AI analyzes millions of camera-trap images in the Amazon and Congo Basin to identify species such as jaguars, elephants, and leopards while filtering out empty images automatically. | | Acoustic AI | Rainforest Connection | Solar-powered acoustic sensors in Brazil, Peru, and Indonesia detect chainsaw and truck sounds in real time to help authorities stop illegal logging in biodiversity hotspots. | | Geospatial AI | Planet Labs | Daily satellite imagery is used to monitor Amazon deforestation, habitat fragmentation, and ecosystem degradation affecting biodiversity-rich forests. | | Remote Sensing AI | NASA | NASA’s GEDI mission uses LiDAR and AI to map forest canopy structure and estimate biodiversity and carbon density across tropical forests. | | Pattern-Recognition AI | Wildbook | Researchers identify individual whale sharks, zebras, and giraffes using unique body patterns for wildlife population tracking and migration studies. | | Environmental DNA (eDNA) AI | Marine biodiversity research programs in Canada and Europe | Scientists analyze seawater DNA samples with AI to detect endangered fish and aquatic species without physically capturing them. | | Bioacoustics AI | Cornell Lab of Ornithology / Bird monitoring programs | AI continuously analyzes rainforest and wetland sound recordings to monitor bird population
It's only been a few weeks since The Walt Disney Company began deploying facial scanning at the gates of Disneyland and other California parks, but the technology is already the subject of a $5 million proposed class action lawsuit filed against the company in a US District Court in New York. The federal complaint, filed on behalf of Summer Christine Duffield, says she visited two Disney parks -- Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park -- earlier this month and that her face was scanned "without adequate consent." The lawsuit accuses Disney of violating privacy, competition and consumer‑protection laws by failing to sufficiently disclose its use of the technology and the data collected. A Disney representative didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Disney began using the technology in late April and said it gives visitors the option to skip face scanning, though there are more lines to enter the parks with scanning and fewer lines without it. The scanning, which is also in practice at Universal Studios parks in Florida, can speed up reentry for those who don't want to hunt for passes on their phones. Disney is also using the tech to ID people and prevent them from using someone else's park pass. The scanning technology has raised questions about how Disney uses the biometric data it collects and what happens to that data. Disney said in a blog post that it converts photos to numerical values and compares those numbers, not the photos themselves, when detecting unauthorized pass use. The numeric data is deleted within 30 days, except in cases of alleged fraud or other legal reasons for keeping it, the company has said. Children under 18 can have their faces scanned with a parent or guardian's consent. Blake Hunter Yagman, a lawyer representing Duffield in the
Reflection removal using recurrent polarization-to-polarization network - Open Access - 01.07.2026 - Research Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden. Wählen Sie Textabschnitte aus um mit Künstlicher Intelligenz passenden Patente zu finden. powered by Markieren Sie Textabschnitte, um KI-gestützt weitere passende Inhalte zu finden. powered by (Link öffnet in neuem Fenster) Abstract 1 Introduction Reflections caused by semi-reflectors such as glass are commonly seen in daily life. When light passes through semi-reflectors, a camera inevitably captures the reflection and the transmission components at the same time. Nevertheless, most computer vision applications, such as object detection, segmentation, and depth estimation assume that each pixel value is derived only from the scene corresponding to the transmission. Therefore, reflection removal is a crucial task to improve the robustness of real-world applications using a camera. Most existing reflection removal methods are based on a single grayscale or color image, where both the input and the outputs (reflection and transmission) are in the intensity domain, as illustrated by the intensity-to-intensity model of Fig. 1a. While recent deep-learning-based methods have shown great progress [1‐7], the separation of the reflection and the transmission is still challenging due to an ill-posed problem, as an infinite number of transmission and reflection image combinations is possible to reproduce the same mixed image. Other approaches attempt to solve this problem by using multi-view color images [8‐12]. However, these methods typically necessitate image alignment as a pre-processing step, which imposes constraints on their practical application. Anzeige Meanwhile, as the price of one-shot polarization cameras has decreased, one-shot acquisition of polarized images has become much easier in recent years [13, 14]. Considering that the existence of reflection components changes the polarization state of a scene, some non-learning-based [15‐18] or learning-based [19‐21] methods solve the reflection removal by using
As retailers await their tariff refunds, Amer Sports CFO Andrew Page said the company has received a small amount back, but has no “visibility at all” into what could be coming down the line. “The way that we're handling them is that as tariff refunds come in, then we realize it,” Page told Retail Dive in an interview. “We're not projecting any amount of tariffs to come in the future, we're not projecting the timing … there was no real pattern recognition that gives me an indication as to the cadence and sequencing of it.” Amer Sports — which owns Arc’teryx, Salomon and Wilson, among others — is in a fortunate position compared to others in retail, in that the IEEPA tariffs that are currently being refunded had a minimal impact on operations to begin with. That means the refunds, too, will have no real impact on the company’s go-forward guidance. The retailer notched a 32% revenue gain in Q1, reaching $1.9 billion, and expects the metric to be up 20% to 22% for the full fiscal year. The standout performance was driven largely by the company’s technical apparel segment, anchored by Arc’teryx, and its outdoors performance category, led by Salomon. Those business divisions grew by 33% and 42%, respectively, in the first quarter. Even ball and racquet sports, which is headed up by Wilson, saw revenue grow 13% to $347 million. Operating margins in that segment are just 3.6%, though, compared to more than 20% in the other two business divisions. The tough consumer backdrop doesn’t seem to be shaking Amer Sports much either, despite some of its brands commanding high price points. Page credits that to the company’s innovation, and the strong equipment and technical performance of its products. Those elements help shoppers feel they’re getting a strong