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BEV-ODOM2: Enhanced BEV-based Monocular Visual Odometry with PV-BEV Fusion and Dense Flow Supervision for Ground Robots
Yufei Wei, Wangtao Lu, Sha Lu, Chenxiao Hu, Fuzhang Han, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14636

BEV-ODOM2: Enhanced BEV-based Monocular Visual Odometry with PV-BEV Fusion and Dense Flow Supervision for Ground Robots
Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation offers a metric-scaled planar workspace, facilitating the simplification of 6-DoF ego-motion to a more robust 3-DoF model for monocular visual odometry (MVO) in intelligent transportation systems. However, existing BEV methods suffer from sparse supervision signals and information loss during perspective-to-BEV projection. We present BEV-ODOM2, an enhanced framework addressing both limitations without additional annotations. Our approach introduces: (1) dens…

Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation, and plans to name Alexandre LeBrun as CEO, ahead of a January launch (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d88729c0-c44f-4530-b888-bafa29ee0446

Student-athlete: Commanders LB Bobby Wagner graduating with MBA from Howard University https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47348658/bobby-wagner-graduates-mba-howard-university-washington-commanders

Redbubble’s just corporate print‑on‑demand junk, wasteful and bad for the planet, but at least I snagged some anarchist designs for myself.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism

Japan: Drohnen vergrämen Bären mit Hundegebell und Feuerwerkskörpern
Die zunehmende Anzahl von Bären in Japan stellt ein Problem für die Bevölkerung dar. Die Stadt Hida setzt Drohnen ein, um Bären fernzuhalten.

Astrometric view of companions in the inner dust cavities of #protoplanetary disks: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00157 -> Gaia finds hints of planets in baby star systems: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/Gaia_finds_hints_of_planets_in_baby_star_systems

Tutkimus: Metsät vaikuttavat suomalaisten onnellisuuteen näillä kolmella tavalla #luonto

Tutkimus: Metsät vaikuttavat suomalaisten onnellisuuteen näillä kolmella tavalla
Itä-Suomen yliopiston tutkimuksessa tunnistettiin myös tekijöitä, jotka vähensivät ihmisten kokemaa metsäonnellisuutta.

What do you call it when you order a pizza that's completely naked on one side, beef on the other, and it triggers a divide-by-zero in the ordering website?
NaN pizza with left beef.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Eartha Kitt:
🎵 Santa Baby(Trayze Xmas AllStar Remix)
#EarthaKitt
https://jmtjmt.bandcamp.com/track/eartha-kitt-santa-baby-remastered
https://open.spotify.com/track/59hKzj0h6ElhQv8rBqvpUz

Object Recognition and Force Estimation with the GelSight Baby Fin Ray
Sandra Q. Liu, Yuxiang Ma, Edward H. Adelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14510 https://

Object Recognition and Force Estimation with the GelSight Baby Fin Ray
Recent advances in soft robotic hands and tactile sensing have enabled both to perform an increasing number of complex tasks with the aid of machine learning. In particular, we presented the GelSight Baby Fin Ray in our previous work, which integrates a camera with a soft, compliant Fin Ray structure. Camera-based tactile sensing gives the GelSight Baby Fin Ray the ability to capture rich contact information like forces, object geometries, and textures. Moreover, our previous work showed that t…