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Motion and Perception
Motion and perception in the field of artificial intelligence has a relatively recent history when compared to other fields in computer science. Along with the premature boom and bust of artificial intelligence in decades past, computer vision and related fields in AI have been slowly developing fundamental methods to have computers be able to sense and analyze its surroundings. Motion is strongly linked with the field of robotics, as the application of this type of research will profoundly impact the way in which we interact with computers, and computers begin to interact with the world. This sub-field of artificial intelligence has a few main parts: robotics, machine perception, computer vision, and speech recognition. Robotics, at its core according to futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil, is the study of navigation, localization (knowing where you are), mapping, or learning what is around you, and motion planning, which is figuring out how to get somewhere.
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Ray Kurzweil
Learning the Structure of Music
“Le StruM is a project that comes from three areas, Music Cognition, Representation, and Machine Learning. This project is aimed at the development of models and tools for the application of novel machine learning techniques to the analysis of music and brain imaging data on music cognition.”
This project is different than most projects in perception research, as that it does nothing to analyze anything visual, only audible. The project uses the techniques described above to be able to use a computer to be able to understand the “relationship between musical structure and musical performance” as well as the listening experience that we are so used to, but are not able to explain. Some papers being submitted to the website are also attempting to link the brain with the science of music perception, convinced that understanding the brain would unlock the doors to understanding the structure of music as we know it. Researchers from places like the Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences are using this idea to move forward on actually understanding the brain, through using music. In fact, a large swathe of the research being done in the past couple years have relied on using the history of music in our culture to attempt to understand how the brain functions, believing the way music accesses memory, visualization, and more hold the key to the brain.
Relevant Link: Le Strum
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