History of Neural Network Design
From Eugenio Curlurciello’s blog, Professor at Purdue University, you can find here a post about the the history of neural network design
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Computer Vision
Probabilistic Volumetric Reconstruction using Ray Potentials
From the webpage of the project “This paper presents a novel probabilistic foundation for volumetric 3-d reconstruction. We formulate the problem as
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Active Volumetric 3D Reconstruction
A new open-source library has been released by the Robotics and Perception Group of Davide Scaramuzza. Technical details of the
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Itseez Acquired by Intel
OpenCV originated at Intel, and is now back at Intel. People wonder about the possibility that OpenCV can stop beeing
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Hyper-Reality
“Hyper-Reality (total runtime approx 6 minutes) is a concept film by Keiichi Matsuda. It presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new
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Spatiotemporal Bundle Adjustment for Dynamic 3D Reconstruction
An interesting work from CMU. A spatiotemporal cost function is defined in order to jointly estimates both the spatiotemporal camera
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Google New Plan: Map the Interior World in 3-D
Everyone knows about Google Map and use it. But now the internet giant has a bigger target: it wants to digitally map
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Mapping and Navigating Using a RealSense R200
This video shows how the new RealSense R200 can be used for 2D mapping and navigation for TutleBot. Drivers & ROS
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Opt is a New Language for Optimization Problems in Computer Graphics and Imaging
“Many graphics and vision problems are naturally expressed as optimizations with either linear or non-linear least squares objective functions over
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Best Optics for Visual Odometry
In their latest work “Benefit of Large Field of View Cameras for Visual Odometry“, Davide Scaramuzza et al. analyse which optics is
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EchoPixel’s VR lets Doctors Look Inside Your Body
Nice application of 3D reconstruction from radiology scans. “With EchoPixel and 3D glasses, internal organs pop off the screen like
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Movidius breakthrough puts AI onto a USB stick
Movidius (innovative Irish chip maker) has just created the world’s first deep learning USB stick. Entitled the Fathom Neural Compute Stick,
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Meta Augmented Glasses
How to design a proper demo for augmented glasses. Looking behind the lenses… “Our promotional videos are shot from behind
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Magic Leap News
This Andrew Davison’s comment about Magic Leap recent results is thought-provoking. In the very interesting article of Kevin Kelly, the
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