Abstract: Objective methods for assessing perceptual image quality traditionally attempted to quantify the visibility of errors (differences) between a distorted image and a reference image using a ...

Claude Lavoie is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He was director-general of economic studies and policy analysis at the Department of Finance from 2008 to 2023. A mid-December Abacus ...

Parallax Worlds, a startup building hyper-realistic virtual simulations to stress-test robots before deployment, today announced it raised $4 million in a seed round. Developing and deploying robots ...

A renowned Chinese TV host ignited a heated online controversy after openly expressing her preference for boys over girls and presenting drumsticks to two young men instead of a young woman during a ...

Abstract: Recent studies in perceptual lossy compression have highlighted the advantage of stochastic coding with shared randomness between encoder and decoder, over deterministic encoding in the ...

How a person with dementia experiences (or perceives) things often changes as their dementia progresses. Many people with dementia experience changes in how they understand the world around them. This ...

With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), artificial general intelligence (AGI), which refers to the point where machines are super intelligent in most areas and outperform humans, remains a ...

A growing share of Americans say reducing crime should be a top priority for the president and Congress to address this year. Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) hold that view today, up from 47% at ...

Rather than provide a complete view of the world, our retina already tries to process information in the most useful way possible. This means that cognitive biases start long before we consciously ...

Although numerous explanations have been offered, meaningful coincidences—synchronicity and serendipity—are primarily psychological phenomena. Without you noticing them, they do not exist. In common ...

In everyday life, experience varies its tempo: time can pass quickly; sometimes, all too slowly. The five articles in our Research Topic, entitled The neurology and psychology of time perception, ...