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Drüben auch meinem @… Account habe ich heute ein Bild veröffentlicht, welches für mich irgendwie symbolisch für unsere Gesellschaft steht. Zu sehen ist ein Gestell auf dem Heidefriedhof, an dem viele Gießkannen hängen, woben jede einzelne mit einem Schloss gesichert ist. Statt sich also solidarisch wenige Gießkannen - welche ja nur vereinzelt zum gießen der Grä…

der_raddler (@der_raddler@photo.dresden.network)
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Temporally Smooth Mesh Extraction for Procedural Scenes with Long-Range Camera Trajectories using Spacetime Octrees
Zeyu Ma, Adam Finkelstein, Jia Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13306

Temporally Smooth Mesh Extraction for Procedural Scenes with Long-Range Camera Trajectories using Spacetime Octrees
The procedural occupancy function is a flexible and compact representation for creating 3D scenes. For rasterization and other tasks, it is often necessary to extract a mesh that represents the shape. Unbounded scenes with long-range camera trajectories, such as flying through a forest, pose a unique challenge for mesh extraction. A single static mesh representing all the geometric detail necessary for the full camera path can be prohibitively large. Therefore, independent meshes can be extract…

I've got a 3am start with derpmaster Mike coming up in the next few days. He normally gets up at 5.30am so I've got a feeling there's going to be no settling him after I arrive and his regular humans all leave.
Still, hot weather will mean an early walk and breakfast and then we can both snooze!
My fourth year of looking after Michael.
#Greyhounds

YES!
GDP growth is effectively dead.The motor is broken.
Now it's time to face reality and share the wealth that is so evidently present.
An economy for life!
#degrowth
Blow to Chancellor as UK economy shrank unexpectedly in May

Blow to Chancellor as UK economy shrank unexpectedly in May
The UK economy contracted unexpectedly in May, marking the second month in a row of falling output and heaping further pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1% in May, following a 0.3% drop in April. Most economists had expected the economy to rebound […]

Western Honey Bee flying away after visiting a Canary Island Daisy. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2025. #laarboretum #bee #honeybee

All Eyes, no IMU: Learning Flight Attitude from Vision Alone
Jesse J. Hagenaars, Stein Stroobants, Sander M. Bohte, Guido C. H. E. De Croon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11302

All Eyes, no IMU: Learning Flight Attitude from Vision Alone
Vision is an essential part of attitude control for many flying animals, some of which have no dedicated sense of gravity. Flying robots, on the other hand, typically depend heavily on accelerometers and gyroscopes for attitude stabilization. In this work, we present the first vision-only approach to flight control for use in generic environments. We show that a quadrotor drone equipped with a downward-facing event camera can estimate its attitude and rotation rate from just the event stream, e…

A Goal-Oriented Approach for Active Object Detection with Exploration-Exploitation Balance
Yalei Yu, Matthew Coombes, Wen-Hua Chen, Cong Sun, Myles Flanagan, Jingjing Jiang, Pramod Pashupathy, Masoud Sotoodeh-Bahraini, Peter Kinnell, Niels Lohse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11467

A Goal-Oriented Approach for Active Object Detection with Exploration-Exploitation Balance
Active object detection, which aims to identify objects of interest through controlled camera movements, plays a pivotal role in real-world visual perception for autonomous robotic applications, such as manufacturing tasks (e.g., assembly operations) performed in unknown environments. A dual control for exploration and exploitation (DCEE) algorithm is presented within goal-oriented control systems to achieve efficient active object detection, leveraging active learning by incorporating variance…

At Berlin Buzzwords, Danica Fine discussed how to create a custom on-air sign using Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and Apache Iceberg™. Discover how to capture events such as Zoom meetings and camera usage with Python, process data using FlinkSQL, analyse trends from your Iceberg tables, and integrate everything into a practical IoT project that can scale effectively.
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CIMR: Contextualized Iterative Multimodal Reasoning for Robust Instruction Following in LVLMs
Yangshu Yuan, Heng Chen, Xinyi Jiang, Christian Ng, Kexin Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22074

CIMR: Contextualized Iterative Multimodal Reasoning for Robust Instruction Following in LVLMs
The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has enhanced our ability to process and generate human language and visual information. However, these models often struggle with complex, multi-step multi-modal instructions that require logical reasoning, dynamic feedback integration, and iterative self-correction. To address this, we propose CIMR: Contextualized Iterative Multimodal Reasoning, a novel framework that introduces a context-aware itera…

An RGB-D Camera-Based Multi-Small Flying Anchors Control for Wire-Driven Robots Connecting to the Environment
Shintaro Inoue, Kento Kawaharazuka, Keita Yoneda, Sota Yuzaki, Yuta Sahara, Temma Suzuki, Kei Okada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02544

An RGB-D Camera-Based Multi-Small Flying Anchors Control for Wire-Driven Robots Connecting to the Environment
In order to expand the operational range and payload capacity of robots, wire-driven robots that leverage the external environment have been proposed. It can exert forces and operate in spaces far beyond those dictated by its own structural limits. However, for practical use, robots must autonomously attach multiple wires to the environment based on environmental recognition-an operation so difficult that many wire-driven robots remain restricted to specialized, pre-designed environments. Here,…