ICLR 2016
This interesting post of Tomasz Malisiewicz is about ICLR 2016. Here the Author highlights some new strategies for building deeper and more powerful neural networks,
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Luigi Freda
Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer, PhD
Author: luigi
Nanowire-based Battery Material that can be Recharged Hundreds of Thousands of Times
University of California, Irvine researchers have invented nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times. This
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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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Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide
In this work from Georgia Tech, researchers have developed a control algorithm that allows small-scale autonomous cars to drive autonomously around
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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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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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