IEEE

FastSAM-CD: Remote Sensing Image Change Detection Using Vision Foundation Models With Stronger Encoder and Decoder

Abstract: Remote sensing image change detection (RSICD) is a crucial technique for Earth observation. However, the mainstream RSICD methods still face two main challenges. First, the encoding stage ...
New Atlas

World’s first native color LiDAR gives machines human-like vision

For years, machines have navigated the world color-blind. LiDAR sensors – the laser-based eyes of self-driving cars, ...
IEEE

GeoViTMamba: A Hybrid Vision Transformer and Transformer Decoder for Semantic Remote Sensing Image Captioning

Abstract: Remote sensing image captioning (RSIC) links high resolution aerial imagery with naturallanguage descriptions for urban analysis, environmental monitoring, and autonomous planning. We ...
Philadelphia Inquirer

Alexander Hamilton is ‘cocky.’ George Washington ‘owns the room.’ Blind and low-vision visitors decode 1787 using their hands in a new tactile tour.

You can tell a lot about someone from their posture. “He seems confident,” Kosi Asabere said, placing her hands on the bronze statue in front of her. She ran her hands over the figure’s hands, noting ...
Nature

Object Detection Techniques in Computer Vision

Object detection is the task of identifying and localising instances of predefined object classes within images or video frames. Early approaches relied on handcrafted features and sliding-window ...
Ars Technica

Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support

You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...