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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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What if Eye? Computationally Recreating Vision Evolution

We evolve artificial embodied agents inside video-game worlds to replay millions of years of evolution and create new forms of artificial a…
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The Anemoia Device Turns Pixels Into Perfume

The Anemoia Device uses generative AI to mix custom scents that complement photographs and create synthetic memories.
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Why have so many different eyes evolved? Gamelike simulation could provide answers

“Powerful” method for studying evolution could help researchers understand how species developed specialized eyes
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A “scientific sandbox” lets researchers explore the evolution of vision systems

The AI-powered tool could inform the design of better sensors and cameras for robots or autonomous vehicles.
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What if eye...? Computationally recreating vision evolution

Kushagra Tiwary et al. ,What if eye...? Computationally recreating vision evolution. Sci. Adv. 11, eady2888 (2025). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ady2888
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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The Anemoia Device

The Anemoia Device is a scent-memory machine that distills analogue photographs into bespoke fragrances.Guided by a generative AI models an…
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Gaze to the Stars

What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Large Population Models

Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Future You: An Interactive Digital Twin System for Self-Reflection and Personal Growth

​Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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BeWell Biomarkers

Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
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MemPal: Wearable Memory Assistant for Aging Population

We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
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New imaging technique reconstructs the shapes of hidden objects

By leveraging reflections from wireless signals, the system could allow robots to find and manipulate items that are blocked from view.
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Reconstructing Hidden Objects with Wireless Signals

What if devices could see through walls, boxes, and clutter?We’ve developed mmNorm, a new technology that creates 3D models of objects—even…
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CLIMB: Data Foundations for Large Scale Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models

Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…
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Towards Socially-Intelligent Nonverbal Foundation Models

If we want AI to engage with us naturally—in classrooms, therapy, eldercare, and beyond—it needs to understand us, with or without words.&n…
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Decentralized AI

As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
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Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification

Lu, Charles, et al. "Federated conformal predictors for distributed uncertainty quantification." International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). PMLR, 2023.
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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Computer-Aided Synthesis

An exploration of how  advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…
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Fiducial Marker-Based Navigation for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object det…
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Domain Randomization & Synthetic Data Generation for AUAVs - Reducing Perceptual Uncertainty of Sim2Real Navigation

Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces a …
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Light Sculptures

This project transforms light into glass sculptures.  I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
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AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choices

Future You, developed by Dr. ​​Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.
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Handheld Mapping of Specular Surfaces using Consumer-grade Flash Lidar.

Tsung-Han Lin, Connor Henley, Siddharth Somasundaram, Akshat Dave, Moshe Laifenfeld, and Ramesh Raskar. Handheld mapping of specular surfaces using consumer-grade flash lidar. In IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2024.
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Dexter Callender III awarded 2024 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

Callender was awarded this prize for his body of work, Light Sculptures, Matters of Impermanence.
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FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search

FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
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PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar

3D reconstruction from a single-view is challenging because of the ambiguity from monocular cues and lack of information about occluded reg…
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PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar

Klinghoffer, Tzofi, et al. "PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar." IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2024).
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Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view

This technique could lead to safer autonomous vehicles, more efficient AR/VR headsets, or faster warehouse robots.
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Camera Culture students selected for National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP)

They've been selected as Fellows in the fields of Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
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Illuminate nominated for 2024 SXSW Innovation Award

Illuminate has been nominated for a 2024 SXSW Innovation Award in the Student Innovation category. Illuminate  is an in…
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Illuminate

What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
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Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…
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Type experiments

​36 Days Of Type is an initiative that invites creatives to create their version of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet, one…
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How x-ray vision is becoming a reality

Tara Boroushaki, a PhD student in the Signal Kinetics group, explains how she's combined AR and wireless signals to find hidden objects.
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StoryLine: Exploring the intersection of visual storytelling and machine learning

McKinsey & Co. and LSM ask: Can we understand, and even predict, the relationship between video story content and audience consumption?
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Photorythms

Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…
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Detecting and Mapping Transparent or Mirror-like Surfaces with Lidar

Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…
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Bounce-Flash Lidar

In photography, illuminating a subject directly using an on-camera flash can result in unflattering photos. To avoid this, photographers o…
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Liquid Learning

Continuing the work of Liquid Movies, we introduce Liquid Learning, an extension for not simply recommending videos but encouraging people …
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Augmented Reality with X-Ray Vision

X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…