VEMI Lab

Dr. Nicholas Giudice will be speaking at Sight Tech Global’s virtual and free conference on December 3rd, 2020. He will be speaking about “Wayfinding: Finding the mark” from 1-1:45PM EST (10am-10:45am PT) and moderating the discussion “Augmented Reality and Perception: What’s the best way to get the message across?” from 1:50-2:20PM EST (10:50-11:20AM PT). Click […]

VEMI is happy to announce their new project with Dr. Jonathan Rubin and the Structures and Composite Center, State of Maine, and the Portland Jetport Autonomous Shuttle Project: “Pilot Testing of an Autonomous Shuttle on Maine’s Roadways”. VEMI is working to create a virtual AV simulator to advance our research in autonomous vehicles. A big […]

VEMI is proud to announce new work with Dr. Caitlin Howell supported by UMaine’s AI Initiative. In this project, our team is working to create an accessible method for rapid, remote detection of surface contamination. This will be achieved by using nanotextured surfaces inspired by nature and incorporate real-time machine learning. Our findings will lead […]

VEMI is pleased to announce their partnership with Dr. Salimeh Sekeh on a new project for “Improving Adversarial Attack Detection Toward Robustness of Deep Neural Networks”. Our research will focus on algorithm implementation for student’s advancing autonomous human-vehicle interaction, allowing for many real-world safety applications. This will also allow our researchers to gain experience in […]

Click here to learn about VEMI’s self-driving car project with researchers at Northeastern University. The article discusses VEMI’s research with how humans interact with technology, as well as some potential issues with current autonomous vehicle designs.

Dr. Giudice and collaborators publish new paper providing a compilation of guidelines and best practices for designing and implementing accessible multimodal graphics via the touchscreen of smart devices (phones and tablets). The guidelines are empirically tested in a user study with 22 blind users based on a range of STEM-based graphics. Challenges for future research […]

Dr. Giudice and collaborators publish new paper on indoor navigation. The research investigated the use of a speech-based navigation system and the role of memory in how route information is provided to the user. Results showed similar navigation performance between sighted and blind users of the system and for the first time, showed that older […]

Click here to hear Dr. Corey and Dr. Giudice talk about automated driving and the VEMI lab’s research around it on MIT’s “In Machines We Trust” podcast, episode “AI in the Driver’s Seat”

New Instagram Post! Find out what the VEMI lab is up to by keeping updated with our Instagram page! This time, meet one of our newest members… Izzy!