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Reading manuscripts in the digital space with handwritten text recognition
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (181+ words) What if, instead of parsing the highly-stylized handwriting of historical documents in an archive or a rare book library, scholars could read a typed transcript of the manuscript? Or could quickly search the manuscript for particular words or phrases? Leading…...
Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (880+ words) Penn Today Five faculty at the University of Pennsylvania have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an honorary society and independent research center founded in 1780. They are: Mark G. Allen of the School of Engineering and Applied Science;…...
Where computer graphics, computer vision, and AI meet
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (378+ words) More broadly, I am interested in how AI can help us move from pixels to structured 3 D understanding: recovering geometry, appearance, motion, and dynamics in ways that are not only visually compelling but also controllable and useful for downstream applications,…...
Taking AI to the next level
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (110+ words) Penn Today Researchers, including Rahul Singh (left), in the Daniell lab's greenhouse where the production of clinical grade transgenic lettuce occurs. Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of…...
Penn-developed AI tools and datasets help tailor treatments for kidney patients
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (412+ words) Penn Medicine and Wharton researchers have partnered to create Cell Spectra and SISKA, offering clues to better treatments for kidney disease and beyond. Doctors treating kidney disease have long depended on trial-and-error to find the best therapies for individual patients....