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April 3, 2015

For pain synthesis, the team starts with an existing database of painful-face videos.

Riek and her team have designed new methods for synthesizing pain and stroke on virtual patients and robots. For pain synthesis, the team starts with an existing database of painful-face videos, the UMBC-McMaster shoulder pain archive.

Credit: University of Notre Dame


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