My July column (“Calibrate camera coordinates and colors”) described techniques you can use to calibrate vision systems. In some cases, though, basic calibrations do not suffice. General-purpose ...

It’s not April 1. It’s still 2014. This isn’t a joke. Google just introduced a smart contact lens. For now it’s only a Google[x] experiment, but the idea involves a contact lens with a small wireless ...

Google is testing prototypes of a “smart” contact lens that will make it easier for diabetes patients to monitor their blood sugar levels and stay healthy. Project leaders Brian Otis and Babak Parviz ...

Cataracts remain a leading cause of visual impairment globally, necessitating precise and objective methods for assessing lens opacification. Recent advances in imaging, particularly through ...

Image: When a large nearby object, such as a galaxy, blocks a distant object, such as another galaxy, the light can detour around the blockage. But instead of taking a single path, light can bend ...

This isn’t Google Glass in a contact lens, but it may just be Google’s first step in this direction. The company’s Google X lab just teased a smart contact lens on its blog that is meant to help ...

A Korean research team has developed a technology that transforms soft contact lenses into smart lenses capable of measuring blood sugar or intraocular pressure in real-time. By making the sensors ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Geneva Lens Measure, a simple ...

Menlo Park, CA - Using entire galaxies as lenses to look at other galaxies, researchers have a newly precise way to measure the size and age of the universe and how rapidly it is expanding, on a par ...