Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...
IEEE

Tiny Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Based on Object Reconstruction and Multiple Receptive Field Adaptive Feature Enhancement

Abstract: Tiny object detection in the field of remote sensing has always been a challenging and interesting topic. Despite many researchers working on this problem, it has not been well-solved due to ...
Smithsonian Magazine

From Crushed Sugar Cubes to Exploded Ceramics, This Universal Law Predicts How Most Objects Will Shatter

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...
IEEE

VarifocalNet: An IoU-aware Dense Object Detector

Abstract: Accurately ranking the vast number of candidate detections is crucial for dense object detectors to achieve high performance. Prior work uses the classification score or a combination of ...