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In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves ...

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Abstract: There are two mainstream approaches for object detection: top-down and bottom-up. The state-of-the-art approaches are mainly top-down methods. In this paper, we demonstrate that bottom-up ...

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Visual (Single) Object Tracking aims to continuously localize and estimate the scale of a target in subsequent video frames, given only its initial state in the first frame. This task can be ...

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Most of us like to think we know our senses pretty well. Sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, it’s all pretty standard. But according to new research led by Dr Elisabetta Versace and Dr Laura ...

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 ...