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Meta is partnering with five US universities and granting $2 million to support research that uses its models to speed breakthroughs in medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and mathematics.
- The five schools are the California Institute of Technology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Louisiana State University, Indiana University and UTHealth Houston.
- In medicine, researchers will use Meta's models, glasses and mixed reality headsets to address gaps in healthcare.
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- Michael Dunham at Louisiana State University leads the Eyes-On project, a computer vision system that continuously detects tracheostomy tube displacement and signs of distress in infants who cannot reliably vocalize.
- The system is exploring use of Meta's open weight SAM models for tracking and is meant to work with bedside cameras and edge computing; a proof-of-concept has been published.
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- David Crandall at Indiana University is developing multimodal AI methods for analyzing conversations involving older adults living with dementia, to help conversational agents including social robots adapt to individual users.
- At Ohio State, Dr.
