A digital image is a numeric representation of a two-dimensional image. Depending on whether the image resolution is fixed, it may be of vector or raster type. Without qualifications, the term "digital image" usually refers to raster images also called bitmap images.
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New stunning HD images show the largest canyon in our solar system
Ten times longer than the Grand Canyon, and three times as deep, the Valles Marineris (The Mariner Valley) cuts ...
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Sony's new AI-powered TVs 'mimic the human brain'
Sony has unveiled a new lineup of AI-powered Bravia TVs that use "cognitive intelligence" to replicate how the human eye ...
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Here's how OpenAI's magical DALL-E image generator works
It seems like every few months, someone publishes a machine learning paper or demo that makes my jaw drop. This month, it’s ...
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Look, human, it’s the first photo of planets orbiting a sun 300 light years away
The planetary system TYC 8998–760–1, sitting 300 light years from Earth, shows a pair of massive worlds orbiting ...
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Can the law stop internet bots from undressing you?
Imagine that you upload a photograph of yourself on holiday to your favorite social media platform. You are dressed in a ...
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Meet the photography scaleup helping brands go digital
BOOM Image Studio aims to be the Amazon of commercial photography — by attempting to develop the world’s most efficient ...
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How to build an AI stylist inspired by outfits on Instagram
Last year, in a universe where it still made sense to owns pants, I decided to hire a personal stylist. In our first appointment, ...
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Volcanos on Jupiter’s moon are painting its surface with beautiful colors
For the first time ever, astronomers were able to see the effects of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of the innermost ...
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What is machine learning data poisoning?
It’s not hard to tell that the image below shows three different things: a bird, a dog, and a horse. But to a machine ...
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Beauty is in the app of the beholder
There has long been whispers about phone cameras post-processing your selfies to make you "more beautiful," and Google is ...
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How ‘less-than-one-shot learning’ could open up new venues for machine learning research
If I told you to imagine something between a horse and a bird—say, a flying horse—would you need to see a concrete example? ...
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Twitter wants to tackle its biased image cropping problem by giving you control instead
Last month, a bunch of users tweeted about how Twitter's image cropping algorithm seems to have a bias towards fair-skinned ...
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The first black hole ever photographed gets a glam up — it's now glittering
So you like TNW? Then join our upcoming online event, TNW2020 on October 1 & 2, you don’t want to miss it. The ...
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Graphic design apps are now as fundamental as Excel — here's how non-designers get up to speed
In today’s digital landscape, it’s critical to understand why design matters beyond the realm of the creative department. ...
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How to find free-to-use images with Google Search
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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An introduction to one-shot learning
Passport checks at airports and border gates present a special challenge: How do you tell if the person standing in front ...
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There’s an actual science to good Instagram photos
We spoke with a neuroscientist, top designer, and visual psychologist to find out how to drive up likes, followers, and CTR ...
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What is adversarial machine learning?
To human observers, the following two images are identical. But researchers at Google showed in 2015 that a popular object ...
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Retweeting pics can now get you in legal trouble in Japan
The country's Supreme Court has ruled that users who repost copyright-infringing images on Twitter can have their details ...
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This illustrator celebrates analog photography by drawing classic film cameras
Meet Camxatca, a fascinating Instagram project that celebrates analog photography with beautiful illustrations of film cameras ...
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What is generative adversarial network (GAN) — and how it makes computers creative
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try) to disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. Moments ...
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Digital poetry — 5 ways to combine human and computer languages
Since lockdown, everyone has had to rely heavily on digital technologies: be it Zoom work meetings and lengthy email chains, ...
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Tesla's Autopilot dangerously fooled by drone-mounted projectors
Researchers in Israel found self-driving cars and autopilot systems can be gamed with consumer hardware and 2D image projections. ...
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The 'dark matter' of visual data can help AI understand images like humans
What makes us humans so good at making sense of visual data? That’s a question that has preoccupied artificial intelligence ...
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How digital projections illuminate messages of hope, protest, and unity during COVID-19
Over the past months, artists, activists, and communities have used projections of digital images to create moments of hope ...
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How machines see: everything you need to know about computer vision
Welcome to Neural Basics, a collection of guides and explainers to help demystify the world of artificial intelligence. If ...
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Researchers analyzed 10,000 websites — and yes, they all look the same
Did you know we have an online conference about product design coming up? SPRINT will cover how designers and product owners ...
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A Japanese spacecraft sent back images of the rocky asteroid 'Ryugu' — and they're stunning
The Hayabusa2 probe has sent back stunning images of the surface of Ryugu, giving researchers an up-close look at the asteroid’s ...
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Scientists used AI to make 44.8 gigapixel copy of historic Rembrandt painting
You can now get intimately familiar with this Rembrandt's historic painting, 'The Night Watch' — without even having to ...
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This AI spits out an infinite feed of fake furry portraits
It started with delicious AI-generated food that didn't exist, then it was people, then it was cats, Airbnbs, memes, feet ...
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This AI-driven meme generator delivers the avant-garde content you need
Are memes art? And are computers capabale of producing it? The answer is yes, because we've discovered this AI meme generator. ...
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Why these Quasar jets appear to travel faster than light
Quasar jets imaged by the Earth Horizon Telescope (EHT) show galactic movements in unprecedented detail. Movements of vast ...
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The future of black hole images is bright
This month marks the first anniversary of the image of the environment directly surrounding the black hole at the center ...
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Google's Arts & Culture now uses AI to turn selfies into historical paintings
Google is rolling out a new AI-powered feature to its Arts & Culture app that lets you turn your photos into a masterpiece ...
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Leak: The Pixel 4a will cost $399
When we covered an extensive hands-on video of the Pixel 4a yesterday, we lamented that one of the only things we don't know ...
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Deep learning advances are boosting computer vision — but there's still clear limits
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. Since ...
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New images of Betelgeuse’s dimming surface reveal the star’s changing shape, puzzling astronomers
Astronomers have observed the ever dimming surface of Betelguese with the aid of the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). ...
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Olympus E-M1 Mark III: Hands-on in Costa Rica
About a week before officially unveiling the E-M1 Mark III, Olympus invited a small group of journalists to test-drive its ...
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This solar telescope just released its first close-up video of the Sun — and it’s stunning
Astronomers using the new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have released their first public images of the ...
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This genius combined every macOS 10 wallpaper into a psychedelic masterpiece
Every wondered what it'd be like if someone combined a whole load of macOS wallpapers into a single image? WELL NOW YOU HAVE ...
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Instagram's decision to hide photoshopped images is a disservice to art
In a controversial turn of events, Instagram has begun hiding photoshopped images on its platform — even in the case of ...
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UK money saving expert featured in fake cryptocurrency ads on Instagram — AGAIN!
It's 2020, you'd think by now cryptocurrency scammers would have moved on from using unendorsed celebrity images to peddle ...
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We forced an actual designer to review our writers' DIY article images
At TNW we're different to other large tech publications and create our own DIY article images. In this piece, we get a professional ...
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What AI analysis of placentas can teach us about childbirth and health
Artificial Intelligence may be one of the greatest technologies developed by humans. The quest for imitating human intelligence ...
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Art and technology can reconstruct the faces of the dead based on remains
Facial reconstruction is best known as a forensic tool that can help identify human remains and reconnect them with families ...
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This is why you shouldn't use Apple's highlighter tool to censor sensitive info
A recent Reddit post details the danger of using a popular built-in tool in the iOS image editing menu. The tool, commonly ...
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Radar tech reveals unseen footprints of mammoths from the Ice Age
The mammoth lumbers through our imaginations when we think about the world during the most recent Ice Age. They’re just ...
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Nvidia's new AI can make anyone move like Jagger with just a single photo
Nvidia's research team has just developed a new AI that can use an existing video and just one image to make the person in ...
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How researchers are making memes more accessible for visually impaired people
Memes are changing the way we communicate. For the 1.3 billion people living with some form of visual impairment, some of ...
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These are the countries that keep the most photos on their phones
It turns out South Korea, Malaysia, and Switzerland are the countries where people store the most photos on their phones, ...
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This AI researcher is fighting unsolicited dick pics... with more dicks
After waking up to yet another unsolicited dick pic, a developer decided to create a tool that will automatically detect ...
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Binance offering up to $290,000 bounty to catch cryptocurrency KYC extortionist
An unknown individual has been terrorizing cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its users by attempting to extort 300 Bitcoin ...
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CHEAP: $500 off a complete Sony A7R III photography kit? Why the F not
Smartphone cameras are ridiculously good these days – but they've got a long way to go before catching up with real cameras ...
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Here's how algorithms can protect us against deepfakes
Deepfake videos are hard for untrained eyes to detect because they can be quite realistic. Whether used as personal weapons ...
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There's now an AI to prevent cats from bringing dead animals into your house
I came across this fascinating model creator by an engineer named Ben Hamm that stopped his cat from bringing dead preys ...
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How to make your images straighter and more symmetrical with Photoshop
Don't toss your slightly wonky images in the bin: this neat Photoshop trick can help you straighten them out and make them ...
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Research: The best way to stop the spread of fake photos is education
It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did, these two images ...
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3 easy ways to remove backgrounds from images
In this guide, we're going to take a look at some of the methods we use for removing backgrounds from images so you too can ...
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We ranked Google's new search icons by how evil they look
Google recently unveiled new icons for its search function, so we did what the public demanded: ranked them by how evil they ...
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This AI generates ultra-realistic fashion models from head to toe
Kyoto-based firm DataGrid's new AI can conjure complete human bodies afresh from images it's gleaned, for use in ads and ...
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Homenum Revelio! AI will destroy sperm donor anonymity
Anonymous sperm donors have been around for more than a century, but that's soon to change thanks to the modern evolution ...
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Thispersondoesnotexist.com is face-generating AI at its creepiest
Nvidia's incredible people-creating AI is now available online. Now you can create startling images of people who do not ...
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The challenges of moderating online content with deep learning
Earlier in December, the internet was abuzz with news of Tumblr’s declaration that it would ban adult content on its platform ...
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Nefarious AI creates images of delicious food that doesn't exist
Ever think those pictures of delicious food you see on the internet are too good to be true? What if they were made by an ...
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In Instagram's darkest corner, all it takes is a hashtag to uncover images of child sexual abuse
For pedophiles, a single hashtag opened the door to one of Instagram’s seediest corners, one where images of sexually exploited ...
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Why using human ‘super recognizers’ to identify criminals can be bad
People often say that they never forget a face, but for some people, this claim might actually be true. So-called super recognizers ...
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Turn any photo into a WhatsApp sticker with this free Android app
Snap photos or import images into Sticker Studio, and you can quickly create stickers to use in WhatsApp on your Android ...
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9 tips to edit and post photos on Instagram like a pro
There are millions of photos shared by Instagram users. You definitely don’t want your followers to miss your photos in ...
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The difference between AI and machine learning, explained
A while ago, while browsing through the latest AI news, I stumbled upon a company that claimed to use “machine learning ...
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China has a new surveillance tool that identifies citizens by how they walk
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool designed to identify people by how they walk, or the shapes ...
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NASA wants to send humans to Venus – here's why that's a brilliant idea
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, ...
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The Foobot monitors air quality, but can't help you fix it
We review the Foobot – a device that measures the air quality in a room. Unfortunately though, it can tell you the air ...
