To estimate the weight of a rock, you pick it up. Is it rough, or smooth? You run a finger over it. We're constantly ...

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After nine months in the womb, humans enter a world filled with texture and shape. We must then quickly learn to recognize ...

It is hard to overstate the literary impact, in 1997, of Arundhati Roy’s début novel, “The God of Small Things.” A family drama set in a small town in Kerala, in southern India, it was evocatively ...

Find out how tessellation is when shapes fit together in a pattern with no gaps or overlaps. Shapes with 4 sides Explore four-sided shapes looking at straight lines, curved lines and 2D shapes. What ...

The National Human Rights Commission has reportedly taken cognisance of a complaint over the Karjat project and sought a report from the state government, besides also seeking clarification from ...

You can identify poison ivy by its three glossy leaflets and color changes with the seasons. Wash your skin with soap and water right away if you touch poison ivy to stop the oil from spreading. You ...

Summary: A new breakthrough shows how robots can now integrate both sight and touch to handle objects with greater accuracy, similar to humans. Researchers developed TactileAloha, a system that ...

Abstract: This study presents a touch-free telesurgery interface that uses computer vision to intuitively control a UR5e robotic system for 2D surgical tasks. The system aims to provide a scalable and ...

This repository is the official implementation of our paper "Enhancing 3D Object Detection with 2D Detection-Guided Query Anchors, CVPR 2024 ". Our code is based on StreamPETR. Due to some internal ...

The goal of this project is to detect object from a number of visual object classes in realistic scenes. There are 7 object classes: The training and test data are ...

Abstract: Accurate shape reconstruction of transparent ob-jects is a challenging task due to their non-Lambertian surfaces and yet necessary for robots for accurate pose perception and safe ...