AI hype? Caltrans robot dog gets credit for solving a crime that never happened

A semi-autonomous robot dog that uses artificial intelligence to perform actions such as walking filmed someone peering through a Caltrans fence — a move that one official equated with catching a ...
Interesting Engineering

Seventh sense unlocked: Study finds humans can detect buried objects like shorebirds

Researchers show humans can detect buried objects without contact, revealing a surprising “remote touch” sense similar to ...
Live Science

Watch: Chinese company's new humanoid robot moves so smoothly, they had to cut it open to prove a person wasn't hiding inside

Xpeng's new humanoid, IRON, is designed to work alongside people — but it won't be folding your laundry anytime soon.
IEEE

Generalization-Enhanced Few-Shot Object Detection in Remote Sensing

Abstract: Object detection is a fundamental task in computer vision that involves accurately locating and classifying objects within images or video frames. In remote sensing, this task is ...
IEEE

IM-CMDet: An Intramodal Enhancement and Cross-Modal Fusion Network for Small Object Detection in UAV Aerial Visible-Infrared Imagery

Abstract: Uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial visible–infrared [RGB-thermal (RGBT)] object detection has been widely applied in fields such as military operations and rescue missions. However, ...