Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)
Google revealed the TPU (Tensor Processing Unit), a custom ASIC designed and built specifically for machine learning applications.
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Luigi Freda
Computer Vision, AI, Robotics Engineer, PhD
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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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3D Cameras
You can find on this page a nice overview of the offerings in the 3D camera marketplace. A wide set of
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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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Suborbital Rocket Launch Footage
This video shows an impressive footage of a suborbital rocket launch that climbed to 396,405 feet at speeds as high
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Drone Anatomy: Sensing Technologies Used in Drones
Surfing on the web, you can find tons of tutorial on how to build your own drone. DIY Drones is obviously
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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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Drone Racing and Drone Fighting: Next Sports in the Modern Age
Drone racing will be for sure one of the next sport in modern age. High-tech ultra-low-latency video links make this
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Tilt Brush: Painting in 3D with VR
When you are able to accurately localize your paintbrush in 3D, the possibilities become endless. This tool from Google lets
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The Picobug : a mesoscale robot that can run, fly, and grasp
The flying monkey is a new robot platform which have three main capabilities: walking, grasping, and flight. This robotic platform merges one
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Small Turbines Can Outperform Conventional Wind Farms
Researchers (Stanford Professor John Dabiri) have found recently that clusters of vertical-axis turbines, arranged to take advantage of each other’s turbulence, can outperform
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