Tech Xplore

Drone-mounted camera can detect plastic landmines without an internet connection

Today's antipersonnel land mines are small and often have plastic casings that standard metal detectors cannot register.
Tech Xplore

LiDAR approach could change factory inspections for tiny hard-to-reach parts

Researchers have developed a new LiDAR approach that makes it possible to image small objects with much greater precision and ...
IEEE

Few-Shot Object Detection With Contrastive Enhancement Loss Guided by Object Association Graph in Remote Sensing Images

Abstract: Object detection in remote sensing images is widely used in military reconnaissance and environmental monitoring, but the high cost of obtaining large-scale labeled data limits the ...
GitHub

DART: Detect Anything in Real Time

Training-free framework that converts SAM3 into a real-time multi-class open-vocabulary detector. Achieves 55.8 AP on COCO val2017 (80 classes) at 15.8 FPS (4 classes, 1008px) on a single RTX 4080.
IEEE

Efficient Object Detection in Large-Scale Remote Sensing Images via Situation-Aware Model

Abstract: With the continuous improvement of high-resolution remote-sensing image-acquisition technologies, image quality and resolution are constantly improved, which greatly promotes the development ...
Wall Street Journal

Tech Device Makers Must Prevent Children From Sharing Intimate Images, U.K. PM Says

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on technology companies to implement checks on their devices to prevent children from sharing intimate images, the latest salvo from a European leader against ...
GitHub

Object detection, 3D detection, and pose estimation using center point detection:

Detection identifies objects as axis-aligned boxes in an image. Most successful object detectors enumerate a nearly exhaustive list of potential object locations and classify each. This is wasteful, ...