Comparing Conditional Diffusion Models for Synthesizing Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI from Pre-Contrast Images
Sebastian Ibarra, Javier del Riego, Alessandro Catanese, Julian Cuba, Julian Cardona, Nataly Leon, Jonathan Infante, Karim Lekadir, Oliver Diaz, Richard Osuala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13776
For some reason the combination of 160K and my Mitutoyo 100x/0.90 objective means that as the last bits of ILD begin to etch away, substrate features become *less* visible.
I expected to see strong contrast at edges of substrate features when the ILD was etched away despite poly, STI trenches, and diffusion areas all being the same material (silicon).
But that's not what I'm seeing.
Going back to my archives, though, most of my good full die 100x shots are with the …
Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements ⛑️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 ⛑️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Quasi-Minnaert Resonances in High-contrast acoustic Structures and Applications to Invisibility Cloaking
Weisheng Zhou, Huaian Diao, Hongyu Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13659 …
Find the best contrast between one color and a list of options, e.g. for labels in geom_tile: {prismatic::best_contrast()} https://emilhvitfeldt.github.io/prismatic/reference/best_contrast.html
Impulsive excitation of a solid by extreme contrast, high intensity femtosecond laser pulses
Sagar Dam, Jian Fuh Ong, Sk Rakeeb, Ameya Parab, Aparajit C, Anandam, Amit D Lad, Yash M Ved, M Krishnamurthy, Kazuo A Tanaka, G Ravindra Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13649
Whichdom is much stronger than Whizdom.
Compare and contrast.
These three cute small trees just arrived, to join their relative, a nearly black Sambuca Negra. I discovered these pale yellow variants online and am planning on planting them together with the other one for the beautiful contrast.
(Shame about the plastic, but what a fantastic way to be able to try out plants that aren't available locally)
Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: [Laughs slightly] More interesting is where it was going and why. Let's see if Avon's got any ideas.
[Interior. Alien projectile]
BLAKE: [To Avon] What do you Think?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/227 B7B5
4DNeX: Feed-Forward 4D Generative Modeling Made Easy
Zhaoxi Chen, Tianqi Liu, Long Zhuo, Jiawei Ren, Zeng Tao, He Zhu, Fangzhou Hong, Liang Pan, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13154
Minimizing the Weighted Number of Tardy Jobs: Data-Driven Heuristic for Single-Machine Scheduling
Nikolai Antonov, Pr\v{e}mysl \v{S}\r{u}cha, Mikol\'a\v{s} Janota, Jan H\r{u}la
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13703
I’m old enough to remember `-ms-high-contrast-adjust: none;` to remove the backplate that Edge added in 2016 (pre-Chromiedge).
Not surprised its `forced-colors` version is frustrating authors:
“forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun”
https://sarahmhigley.com/writing/force
Imaging of electrical signals in a quantum SiC microscope
A. Suhana, T. A. U. Svetikova, C. Schneider, M. Helm, A. N. Anisimov, G. V. Astakhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14888 h…
Garden Aloft II ⛲️
空中花园 II ⛲️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
RoboRetriever: Single-Camera Robot Object Retrieval via Active and Interactive Perception with Dynamic Scene Graph
Hecheng Wang, Jiankun Ren, Jia Yu, Lizhe Qi, Yunquan Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12916
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I'm using the Beta 7 version on my iPhone. I tapped the translate button on a post and got four quick vibrations plus this white on red popup. My lousy vision couldn't begin to guess what it said.
Please make your error messages simple and high-contrast, in the user-selected dark/light mode!
Phase Transitions of Electromagnetically Charged Black Holes in Lovelock Gravity with Nonconstant Curvature Horizons
N. Farhangkhah, S. Hajkhalili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13221
Atomistic mechanisms of phase transitions in all-temperature barocaloric material KPF$_6$
Jiantao Wang, Yi-Chi Zhang, Yan Liu, Hongkun Deng, Mingfeng Liu, Yan Sun, Bing Li, Xing-Qiu Chen, Peitao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13862
Using Artificial Intuition in Distinct, Minimalist Classification of Scientific Abstracts for Management of Technology Portfolios
Prateek Ranka, Fred Morstatter, Andrea Belz, Alexandra Graddy-Reed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13182
Global well-posedness for the Keller--Segel--Navier--Stokes system with nonlinear boundary conditions
Taiki Takeuchi, Keiichi Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13684
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[6/10]:
- CRoC: Context Refactoring Contrast for Graph Anomaly Detection with Limited Supervision
Siyue Xie, Da Sun Handason Tam, Wing Cheong Lau
Whil I'm editing photos from our vacation I quickly share this from last year for #WaterfallWednesday .
Enjoy!
#photography #nature
Quantum Many-Body Simulations of Catalytic Metal Surfaces
Changsu Cao, Hung Q. Pham, Zhen Guo, Yutan Zhang, Zigeng Huang, Xuelan Wen, Ji Chen, Dingshun Lv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13036
ExT: Towards Scalable Autonomous Excavation via Large-Scale Multi-Task Pretraining and Fine-Tuning
Yifan Zhai, Lorenzo Terenzi, Patrick Frey, Diego Garcia Soto, Pascal Egli, Marco Hutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14992
Nonreciprocal parametric amplification of elastic waves in supersonic space-time modulated media
Yingrui Ye, Chunxia Liu, Xiaopeng Wang, Antonio Palermo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14220
Hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's "hyperrealistic" VR research prototype with beyond-retinal resolution, high brightness and contrast, and a narrow field of view (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-tiramisu-hyperrealistic-vr-hands-on/
PIC12F683 poly/substrate with some residual contacts (some floated away, some sitting at random positions, some still firmly attached) but almost all oxide etched.
Doing the whole die at this state, then will probably do a clean to get all the loose contacts and debris off, another imaging pass.
Then I'm not sure if it's worth the effort to try for a clean substrate image given the poor contrast I'm seeing, vs just calling this the final form. We'll see what happe…
Quantum Chaos Diagnostics for Open Quantum Systems from Bi-Lanczos Krylov Dynamics
Matteo Baggioli, Kyoung-Bum Huh, Hyun-Sik Jeong, Xuhao Jiang, Keun-Young Kim, Juan F. Pedraza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13956
Direct Imaging Explorations for Companions from the Subaru/IRD Strategic Program II; Discovery of a Brown-dwarf Companion around a Nearby mid-M~dwarf LSPM~J1446 4633
Taichi Uyama, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Charles Beichman, Teruyuki Hirano, Takayuki Kotani, Qier An, Timothy D. Brandt, Markus Janson, Dimitri Mawet, Mayuko Mori, Bun'Ei Sato, Denitza Stoeva, Motohide Tamura, Masataka Aizawa, Bryson Cale, Thomas Henning, Hiroyuki Tako Ishikawa, Norio Narita, Masahiro Ogihara, Aniket Sanghi, T…
Physics-Informed Deep Contrast Source Inversion: A Unified Framework for Inverse Scattering Problems
Haoran Sun, Daoqi Liu, Hongyu Zhou, Maokun Li, Shenheng Xu, Fan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10555
Despite his unassuming title of “deputy chief of staff,”
Stephen Miller is one of the most powerful men in America.
His boss, Donald Trump, is undisciplined and unfocused,
prone to launching major initiatives (mass deportation, D.C. crime crackdown)
before wandering off to get distracted by fripperies (redecorating the White House, micromanaging the Kennedy Center).
Miller, by contrast, is the always-on attack dog, single-mindedly scheming up new ways to trans…
No-reference Quality Assessment of Contrast-distorted Images using Contrast-enhanced Pseudo Reference
Mohammad-Ali Mahmoudpour, Saeed Mahmoudpour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05053
Rest2Visual: Predicting Visually Evoked fMRI from Resting-State Scans
Chuyang Zhou, Ziao Ji, Daochang Liu, Dongang Wang, Chenyu Wang, Chang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13612 h…
Demonstrating Improved Contrast on the Roman Coronagraph with Spatial Linear Dark Field Control
Thayne Currie, Olivier Guyon, Ruslan Belikov, Dan Sirbu, Mona El Morsy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08905
Polarization-Resolved Chlorophyll Imaging for Non-Invasive Plant Tissue Assessment Using a Silicon-Rich Nitride Metalens Array
Alireza Khalilian, Mehdi Sh. Yeganeh, Konstantin Tsoi, Bowen Yu, Joe Lo, Yasha Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14191
Control of magnetic transition, metal-semiconductor transition, and magnetic anisotropy in noncentrosymmetric monolayer Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Se$_3$Te$_3$
Rui-Qi Wang, Tengfei Cao, Tian-Min Lei, Xie Zhang, Yue-Wen Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11899
Generative AI Pipeline for Interactive Prompt-driven 2D-to-3D Vascular Reconstruction for Fontan Geometries from Contrast-Enhanced X-Ray Fluoroscopy Imaging
Prahlad G Menon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13372
Homogenization of the scattered wave and scattering resonances for periodic high-contrast subwavelength resonators
Yuxin Du, Xin Fu, Wenjia Jing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11972
Azerbaijani media highlight stark contrast in China receptions for Aliyev and Putin at the SCO summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/31/azerbaijani-media-highlight-stark-contrast.html
As usual we watched the "Stoertebekker" stage play at Ralswiek on Rügen Island. The stage setups and wardrobes were as awesome as always. They really try to improve on that every year and come up with clever mechanisms to transform the building for the various acts of the play. The script this year left room for desire ;) Nevertheless a happing worth attending
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TopoSizing: An LLM-aided Framework of Topology-based Understanding and Sizing for AMS Circuits
Ziming Wei, Zichen Kong, Yuan Wang, David Z. Pan, Xiyuan Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14169
Here's an attempt at making a somewhat artistic photo of a mundane object by making it black and white and upping the contrast and only using the phone's built-in editing tools. #photography #BlackAndWhite
High contrast line on pavement for #AbstractAug with the color in the rock flecks in the asphalt emphasized; the line's a little misprinted now that I look at it again
#photo #photography
Ellipsoidal partitions for improved multi-stage robust model predictive control
Moritz Heinlein, Florian Messerer, Moritz Diehl, Sergio Lucia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12792 ht…
The contrast between Google AI search results, which are terrible and totally unreliable, and NotebookLM is amazing.
I think it is irresponsible from Google to integrate AI search results in Google Search...
#ai #googlesearch
Experimental validation of universal filtering and smoothing for linear system identification using adaptive tuning
Zihao Liu, Sima Abolghasemi, Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh Hassanabadi, Nicholas E. Wierschem, Daniel Dias-da-Costa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14629
Discovery of H$\alpha$ Emission from a Protoplanet Candidate Around the Young Star 2MASS J16120668-3010270 with MagAO-X
Jialin Li, Laird M. Close, Feng Long, Jared R. Males, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Alycia Weinberger, Katherine Follette, Sean Andrews, John Carpenter, Warren B. Foster, Kyle Van Gorkom, Alexander D. Hedglen, Gregory J. Herczeg, Parker T. Johnson, Maggie Y. Kautz, Jay K. Kueny, Rixin Li, Joshua Liberman, Joseph D. Long, Jennifer Lumbres, Sebastian Marino, Luca Matr`a, Eden …
Hey friends, sorry to be so silent again. Busy life - but nothing bad.
Just wanted to share this photo with you :
THIS was the narrowest passage ahead. It's just this and around the corner, after this it widens up again. And I can promise: it does not just look narrow - it really IS.
I admit that I thought "ohkay, I did NOT expect that and I hope it won't get worse".
(it didn't and it was fun after all)
Moody Urbanity - Odes II 🎶
情绪化城市 - 颂 II🎶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Towards Fully Onboard State Estimation and Trajectory Tracking for UAVs with Suspended Payloads
Martin Jirou\v{s}ek, Tom\'a\v{s} B\'a\v{c}a, Martin Saska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11547
Characterizing Phishing Pages by JavaScript Capabilities
Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Kanv Khare, Kevin Schwarz, Bradley Reaves, Alexandros Kapravelos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13186 …
INR meets Multi-Contrast MRI Reconstruction
Natascha Niessen (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Carolin M. Pirkl (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Ana Beatriz Solana (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Hannah Eichhorn (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Veronika Spieker (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Wenqi Huang (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Tim Sprenger (on behalf of the PREDICTOM consortium), Marion I. Menzel (on behalf of the PREDICTOM con…
A 3D porous MXene/PNIPAAm hydrogel composite with advanced degradation stability and control of electronic properties in air
Sitao Wang, Chen Jiao, Gerald Gerlach, Julia K\"orner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11392
Dependence of the recoherence times and recoherence increments on the state of phonon bath in a single qubit dephasing model
V. V. Ignatyuk, Ch. Samorodov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11606
Predicting Stellar Parameters of Massive Stars from Light Curves with Machine Learning
Rachel C. Zhang, Kaze W. K. Wong, Gonzalo Holgado, Matteo Cantiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12411
Progress toward a demonstration of high contrast imaging at ultraviolet wavelengths
Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya M. Anche, Christopher B. Mendillo, Jessica Gersh-Range, G. C. Hathaway, Saraswathi Kalyani Subramanian, Justin Hom, Tyler D. Robinson, Mamadou N'Diaye, Nikole K. Lewis, Bruce Macintosh, Ewan S. Douglas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.0…
Moody Urbanity - Odes 🎶
情绪化城市 - 颂 🎶
📷 Zeiss Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
In August I visited four parks with my daughter on a cross-country trip: Zion, Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Badlands.
It was clear that staffing has taken a serious hit.
Experienced rangers were noticeably absent. Many hikes had been canceled,
and the few rangers we did encounter were young, primarily park interpreters;
even they were in short supply.
In contrast, the visitor centers and gift shops seemed well staffed.
Quantum vs Classical Thermal Transport at Low Temperatures
Zhixing Zou, Jiangbin Gong, Jiao Wang, Giulio Casati, Giuliano Benenti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14027 https://
On The Road - To Xi’An/ Geometry 📐
在路上 - 去西安/ 几何 📐
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Friend sent me this pic from the WOOT poster session.
Unfortunately I didn't think to ask for a pic of me with it, but oh well lol.
Continuing a bit with the #photos from our #schwarzwald #vacations : (unknowingly) we walked along the Western-way. It was pretty cool because the trail was very diverse as you can see on the photo…
OnlineHOI: Towards Online Human-Object Interaction Generation and Perception
Yihong Ji, Yunze Liu, Yiyao Zhuo, Weijiang Yu, Fei Ma, Joshua Huang, Fei Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12250
A Convergent Generalized Krylov Subspace Method for Compressed Sensing MRI Reconstruction with Gradient-Driven Denoisers
Tao Hong, Umberto Villa, Jeffrey A. Fessler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11219
On The Road - To Xi’An/Before & After 🌬️
在路上 - 去西安/之前之后🌬️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Beyond conventional vision: RGB-event fusion for robust object detection in dynamic traffic scenarios
Zhanwen Liu, Yujing Sun, Yang Wang, Nan Yang, Shengbo Eben Li, Xiangmo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10704
Contrastive Anatomy-Contrast Disentanglement: A Domain-General MRI Harmonization Method
Daniel Scholz, Ayhan Can Erdur, Robbie Holland, Viktoria Ehm, Jan C. Peeken, Benedikt Wiestler, Daniel Rueckert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06592
CoIRL-AD: Collaborative-Competitive Imitation-Reinforcement Learning in Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
Xiaoji Zheng, Ziyuan Yang, Yanhao Chen, Yuhang Peng, Yuanrong Tang, Gengyuan Liu, Bokui Chen, Jiangtao Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12560
EgoCross: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Cross-Domain Egocentric Video Question Answering
Yanjun Li, Yuqian Fu, Tianwen Qian, Qi'ao Xu, Silong Dai, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool, Xiaoling Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10729
STream3R: Scalable Sequential 3D Reconstruction with Causal Transformer
Yushi Lan, Yihang Luo, Fangzhou Hong, Shangchen Zhou, Honghua Chen, Zhaoyang Lyu, Shuai Yang, Bo Dai, Chen Change Loy, Xingang Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10893