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Interesting study on perceptions about AI in the general US public and among US AI experts (both from academia and companies).
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-arti…

How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.

Scholastic status of congenitally blind children following sight surgery https://internationalsped.com/ijse/article/view/386 "a compelling case for more rigorous assessments and better educational interventions for visually impaired/sight restored children"

Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content", in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content
Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.

MonoMVSNet: Monocular Priors Guided Multi-View Stereo Network
Jianfei Jiang, Qiankun Liu, Haochen Yu, Hongyuan Liu, Liyong Wang, Jiansheng Chen, Huimin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11333

MonoMVSNet: Monocular Priors Guided Multi-View Stereo Network
Learning-based Multi-View Stereo (MVS) methods aim to predict depth maps for a sequence of calibrated images to recover dense point clouds. However, existing MVS methods often struggle with challenging regions, such as textureless regions and reflective surfaces, where feature matching fails. In contrast, monocular depth estimation inherently does not require feature matching, allowing it to achieve robust relative depth estimation in these regions. To bridge this gap, we propose MonoMVSNet, a …

Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights: #LightPollution

#jerecrute pas moi. Mais bonne boîte j'y ai travaillé.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4248435284

And yes, please, please, please view anyone raising money to expose some theoretical 2024 election tampering as a Steinesque grifter. They are conning you. And they are more likely than not conning you to fund some right-wing benefactor holding their puppet strings — or at best they’re just an old-fashioned charlatan. Ignore.
/end
https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114684153991038814

Bathroom? Yeah, it's right up the stairs. You can't miss it!

Rapid mixing for Gibbs states within a logical sector: a dynamical view of self-correcting quantum memories
Thiago Bergamaschi, Reza Gheissari, Yunchao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10976

Rapid mixing for Gibbs states within a logical sector: a dynamical view of self-correcting quantum memories
Self-correcting quantum memories store logical quantum information for exponential time in thermal equilibrium at low temperatures. By definition, these systems are slow mixing. This raises the question of how the memory state, which we refer to as the Gibbs state within a logical sector, is created in the first place. In this paper, we show that for a broad class of self-correcting quantum memories on lattices with parity check redundancies, a quasi-local quantum Gibbs sampler rapidly conver…

Later, I'll be giving a talk at #IANLS25 on some quantitative analyses of Latin book prodcution in Germany (and Italy in part) from 1500 through 1800. Slides, code and data can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15878272

I feel like computers are getting more like cars, or... how I view cars.
I do not need/want to spend a ton of money to get everything computerized car with ever sensor and camera and screen there is because I just don't think I need it or it's worth it for how much I drive.
I get that some people want that, and should probably have it, but I've got like 35 years of driving experience and I think I do okay.

Dual-View Disentangled Multi-Intent Learning for Enhanced Collaborative Filtering
Shanfan Zhang, Yongyi Lin, Yuan Rao, Chenlong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11538

Dual-View Disentangled Multi-Intent Learning for Enhanced Collaborative Filtering
Disentangling user intentions from implicit feedback has become a promising strategy to enhance recommendation accuracy and interpretability. Prior methods often model intentions independently and lack explicit supervision, thus failing to capture the joint semantics that drive user-item interactions. To address these limitations, we propose DMICF, a unified framework that explicitly models interaction-level intent alignment while leveraging structural signals from both user and item perspectiv…

from my link log —
fx: view and process JSON with JavaScript on the command line.
https://fx.wtf/
saved 2025-06-18 https://dotat.at/:/2NS9N.html…

fx – a terminal JSON viewer & processor
A terminal viewer & processor for JSON and YAML (TUI and CLI)

Anti-Aliased 2D Gaussian Splatting
Mae Younes, Adnane Boukhayma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11252 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11252

Anti-Aliased 2D Gaussian Splatting
2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) has recently emerged as a promising method for novel view synthesis and surface reconstruction, offering better view-consistency and geometric accuracy than volumetric 3DGS. However, 2DGS suffers from severe aliasing artifacts when rendering at different sampling rates than those used during training, limiting its practical applications in scenarios requiring camera zoom or varying fields of view. We identify that these artifacts stem from two key limitations: the l…

We've got buried treasure on view in a new display at the museum. Thanks to a recent gift and the work of a consultant and a staff member, we're displaying mingqi, or "spirit goods," in two adjoining cases in the permanent collection. Read on to learn more about how this grouping of well-preserved objects came together.

Goodbye 👋 #Vestmannaeyjar

Had a nice time in Greenwich park with friends though. That view of the city from the hill there is magnificent. Lovely park, great observatory.

Full Professor Position, of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals, at Division of Environmental Geosciences, Uni Vienna (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) #geology #Austria #Österreich

We are hiring: Full Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals
Human activities are driving rapid environmental change on a global scale, with pollutants playing a critical role in pushing planetary systems beyond safe limits. These changes have profound consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human health.

iPadOS 26: Aus für Split View und Slide Over
iPadOS 26 erlaubt es, frei mit mehreren Fenstern zu hantieren – wie oft gewünscht. Ein beliebter Modus scheint dem zum Opfer zu fallen.
https://www.

*hits blunt* "what if we put the HSM... on a rotor spinning fast enough that if you rotated in a chair that fast it would Kill you" https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/9290/8856
(via @…

OnlineBEV: Recurrent Temporal Fusion in Bird's Eye View Representations for Multi-Camera 3D Perception
Junho Koh, Youngwoo Lee, Jungho Kim, Dongyoung Lee, Jun Won Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08644

OnlineBEV: Recurrent Temporal Fusion in Bird's Eye View Representations for Multi-Camera 3D Perception
Multi-view camera-based 3D perception can be conducted using bird's eye view (BEV) features obtained through perspective view-to-BEV transformations. Several studies have shown that the performance of these 3D perception methods can be further enhanced by combining sequential BEV features obtained from multiple camera frames. However, even after compensating for the ego-motion of an autonomous agent, the performance gain from temporal aggregation is limited when combining a large number of imag…

Nextdoor unveils a redesign and a partnership with 3,500 local news providers across the US, the UK, and Canada that will contribute material to the app (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nextdoor-social-media-news-ai-c7e12d6…

Nextdoor is partnering with local news providers
The neighborhood social site Nextdoor is hoping for a revival by turning to local news providers. As part of a redesign of the social media site, Nextdoor is partnering with more than 3,500 local news outlets to use their material. Publishers are hoping more people seeing their work will help an industry that has suffered for more than two decades. Nextdoor wants more of its users, who they call “neighbors,” to view the site as essential and visit more often. Nextdoor also is beefing up its…

A statistical mechanical view of complex economies under the green transition
Filippo Marcuccini, Giacomo Livan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11739 https://…

A statistical mechanical view of complex economies under the green transition
We propose a stylized model of a complex economy to explore the economic tradeoffs imposed by the so called "green transition" -- the shift towards more sustainable production paradigms -- using tools from the Statistical Mechanics of disordered systems. Namely, we promote the parameters of a standard input-output economic model to random variables, in order to characterize the typical statistical properties of its equilibria. A central feature of our work is the explicit inclusion of a waste v…

bbq at hunt park

Sonnet 069 - LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;
But those same tongues, that give thee so thine own,
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
They look into the beauty of t…

Caught a scan of a dynamic equestrian statue this weekend
#horses

Gettysburg National Military Park
View this scan by @UP8 in 3D on Scaniverse.

While we have the Corsa currently in for investigation into possible OBC failure, my wife's been driving the family estate, and has been complaining about the thickness of the steering wheel[1].
Extrapolating a bit, here's where I think we might be headed:
[1] A 2019 G31. I think subsequent models have got worse, so perhaps this extrapolation isn't far off?
#bmw

Complications from surgery landed my dad back in the hospital late Wednesday. Successful exploratory surgery found and hopefully stopped the internal bleeding.
If a few key numbers remain stabile, he might get released today. But in the interim, it’ll have to be a Father’s Day video call to his hospital room.
There are myriad ways in which to view this, but I’m choosing gratefulness. #HappyFathersDay

Got tired of AC Odyssey and decided to revisit my GOG library. It's full of classic goodies, which I often forget. Medal of Honor Allied Assault is still one of the best single player shooters. The orchestral music and the heroic story make this game a first-class experience, and the id 3 engine is built for digital gunplay.

It’s the hard-knock life in #Sonoma’s wine country.

• 🧩 Custom Blocks via #PHP classes with #Filament form configuration and Blade view rendering stored as JSON
• 🔒 Secure image handling with private storage and dynamically generated signed URLs via media library

You and me both, dude.
Excerpt from "A Talk with Philip Glass," Musicworks : No. 13 (Fall 1980), https://www.canadiana.ca/view/mw.00001_13/9

First images of the Sun's south pole!
Solar Orbiter is the first space probe to look at the Sun's poles – and finds the magnetic field there in a state of turmoil. The Sun's magnetic field is currently undergoing a flip. During its latest flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. First images:

Agreed with what @… said, if
and only if
we view this as the start of a marathon.
We are going to have to do this again, and again, and again, and all kinds of other work beyond it.
https://mstdn.social/@stux/114684095462476087

Urban Discoveries III 🏙️
都市发现 III 🏙️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Who says Seattle doesn't get as much sun as Cupertino?

Cursor (and I guess VS Code) tab bar setup for open files feels like getting repeatedly kicked in the head as I forget what I’m doing when stuff scrolls left and right into and out of view. How do people manage? Is there a way to make these into a vertical list of names?

This is a good article, being critical about the anthropomorphizing around GenAI / LLMs. But also not blind for their added value.
https://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
View from Many Parks Curve. October 2016

I’ll be at 3 No Kings events tomorrow — they’re all in Mointain View & Palo Alto, CA. The last one is a democracy fair. Joan Baez will be there & there will be songs. And cake.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social/post/3lrjvqzruyc23

Indivisible Palo Alto Plus (@indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social)
REMINDER: Our TWO No Kings "We The People" events kick off tomorrow 2pm, with the Democracy Parade at the corner of Embarcadero and El Camino in Palo Alto. At the end of the parade, the "We the People" Democracy Fair begins in Rinconada Park. Register: indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org/no-kings-day

My son's becoming a true master with #WorldPainter & #WorldMachine and has been creating some stunning and super detailed landscapes (not just alpines ones) for #Minecraft/Ardacraft/…

Nekso (@Nekso@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 2 images The new map is officially out! Download here: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/etelande-free-custom-realistic-minecraft-mountain-range-2-5k-x-2-5k-1-21-5/ #minecraft #minecraftmap #terrain

Driving in the rain

Network evolution analysis: a usage-centric approach applied on cycling infrastructure
https://josis.org/index.php/josis/article/view/379

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sea Lemon:
🎵 Rear View
#SeaLemon
https://sealemonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/rear-view
https://open.spotify.com/track/79jADDCwnqNSDIEzIOh4rw

Moving Beyond Marginal Carbon Intensity: A Poor Metric for Both Carbon Accounting and Grid Flexibility
Philipp Wiesner, Odej Kao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11377

Moving Beyond Marginal Carbon Intensity: A Poor Metric for Both Carbon Accounting and Grid Flexibility
Marginal Carbon Intensity (MCI) has been promoted as an effective metric for carbon-aware computing. Although it is already considered as impractical for carbon accounting purposes, many still view it as valuable when optimizing for grid flexibility by incentivizing electricity usage during curtailment periods. In this statement paper, we argue that MCI is neither reliable nor actionable for either purpose. We outline its fundamental limitations, including non-observability, reliance on opaque …

Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats

CRAN Task View: Optimization and Mathematical Programming
This CRAN Task View contains a list of packages that offer facilities for solving optimization problems. Although every regression model in statistics solves an optimization problem, they are not part of this view. If you are looking for regression methods, the following views will also contain useful starting points: MachineLearning, Econometrics, Robust Packages are categorized according to the following sections. See also the “Related Links” and “Other Resources” sections at the end.

Beautiful porphyritic granodiorite, part of the Variscan basement, on the Costa Brava, Mediterranean Spain. #geology

‘China is the enemy’: Leaked Russian intelligence reveals Kremlin's actual view of Beijing; accuses it of espionage - Times of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/china-is-the-enemy-leaked-russian-intelligence-reveals-kremlins-actual-view-of-beijing-accuses-it-of-espionage/articleshow/121708799.cms

Boom! ⚡️

SV-DRR: High-Fidelity Novel View X-Ray Synthesis Using Diffusion Model
Chun Xie, Yuichi Yoshii, Itaru Kitahara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05148 https://

SV-DRR: High-Fidelity Novel View X-Ray Synthesis Using Diffusion Model
X-ray imaging is a rapid and cost-effective tool for visualizing internal human anatomy. While multi-view X-ray imaging provides complementary information that enhances diagnosis, intervention, and education, acquiring images from multiple angles increases radiation exposure and complicates clinical workflows. To address these challenges, we propose a novel view-conditioned diffusion model for synthesizing multi-view X-ray images from a single view. Unlike prior methods, which are limited in an…

Bigoli in salsa
live large! Buon appetito ! '
#veneto

I'm happy that my talk on open source eSIM integration into embedded Linux devices has been accepted at Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2025, for details see https://osseu2025.sched.com/event/25Vlq/open-source-for-esim-integration…

Open Source Summit Europe 2025: Open Source for ESIM Integration - Haral...
View more about this event at Open Source Summit Europe 2025

French army chief says France faces Russia as 'main enemy in Europe' amid rising threats: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/french-army-chief-says-france.html

There has long been a quiet debate, currently drowned out but still very much happening, about human replacement vs human augmentation. Think of Gary Kasparov remarking years ago that he thought chess played by humans with computer assistance could be a far more interesting game than either human-only or computer-only chess.
Here’s an argument for augmentation over automation, and note how far it diverges from the current hype despite it being written from a very AI-friendly point of view:
https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/the-turing-trap-the-promise-peril-of-human-like-artificial-intelligence/

DreamGrasp: Zero-Shot 3D Multi-Object Reconstruction from Partial-View Images for Robotic Manipulation
Young Hun Kim, Seungyeon Kim, Yonghyeon Lee, Frank Chongwoo Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05627

DreamGrasp: Zero-Shot 3D Multi-Object Reconstruction from Partial-View Images for Robotic Manipulation
Partial-view 3D recognition -- reconstructing 3D geometry and identifying object instances from a few sparse RGB images -- is an exceptionally challenging yet practically essential task, particularly in cluttered, occluded real-world settings where full-view or reliable depth data are often unavailable. Existing methods, whether based on strong symmetry priors or supervised learning on curated datasets, fail to generalize to such scenarios. In this work, we introduce DreamGrasp, a framework tha…

Submillimeter galaxy overdensities around physically associated quasar pairs
Eileen Herwig, Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, Chian-Chou Chen, Aura Obreja, Marta Nowotka, Rhea-Silvia Remus, Hidenobu Yajima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11193

Submillimeter galaxy overdensities around physically associated quasar pairs
A commonly employed method to detect protoclusters in the young universe is the search for overdensities of massive star forming galaxies, such as submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), around high-mass halos, including those hosting quasars. In this work, we study the Megaparsec environment surrounding nine physically associated quasar pairs between $z=2.45$ and $z=3.82$ with JCMT/SCUBA-2 observations at 450 $μ$m and 850 $μ$m covering a field of view of roughly 13.7 arcmin in diameter (or 32 Mpc$^2$…

SceneCompleter: Dense 3D Scene Completion for Generative Novel View Synthesis
Weiliang Chen, Jiayi Bi, Yuanhui Huang, Wenzhao Zheng, Yueqi Duan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10981

SceneCompleter: Dense 3D Scene Completion for Generative Novel View Synthesis
Generative models have gained significant attention in novel view synthesis (NVS) by alleviating the reliance on dense multi-view captures. However, existing methods typically fall into a conventional paradigm, where generative models first complete missing areas in 2D, followed by 3D recovery techniques to reconstruct the scene, which often results in overly smooth surfaces and distorted geometry, as generative models struggle to infer 3D structure solely from RGB data. In this paper, we propo…

Did a trip to admire the ”Prague Semmering” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smíchov–Hostivice_railway_line from the ground, a regional railway line with impressive curved viaducts to manage the height difference up to the hills above Smíchov station and the pla…

Smíchov–Hostivice railway line - Wikipedia

Chance and Mass Interpretations of Probabilities in Markov Decision Processes (Extended Version)
Yun Chen Tsai, Kittiphon Phalakarn, S. Akshay, Ichiro Hasuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10377

Chance and Mass Interpretations of Probabilities in Markov Decision Processes (Extended Version)
Markov decision processes (MDPs) are a popular model for decision-making in the presence of uncertainty. The conventional view of MDPs in verification treats them as state transformers with probabilities defined over sequences of states and with schedulers making random choices. An alternative view, especially well-suited for modeling dynamical systems, defines MDPs as distribution transformers with schedulers distributing probability masses. Our main contribution is a unified semantical framew…

Google Earth wird 20 und erlaubt den Blick auf historische Street-View-Aufnahmen
Zum 20. Jubiläum führt Google den Rückblick in vergangene Zeiten auch in Google Earth ein. So lässt sich die Historie aus anderen Blickwinkeln betrachten.

A panoramic view of exponential attractors
Radoslaw Czaja, Stefanie Sonner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10388 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

A panoramic view of exponential attractors
We state necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of $T$-discrete exponential attractors for semigroups in complete metric spaces. These conditions are formulated in terms of a covering condition for iterates of the absorbing set under the time evolution of the semigroup and imply the existence and finite-dimensionality of the global attractor. We then review, generalize and compare existing construction methods for exponential attractors and show that they all imply the covering c…

Urban Discoveries III 🏙️
都市发现 III 🏙️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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A post from the archive 📫:
View the origin of a repeating call stack
#visualstudio

neuer #Kurs vom @…: "Barrierefreiheit für Publikationsplattformen"
https://

Before I go to bed, I set the delay and fading animation in my GIF profile picture to a long 5000 on ezgif.com to make sure it doesn’t cause dizziness when people view it!
You can create your own animated GIF profile picture easily at: https://ezgif.com

The ‘Biblical View’ That’s Younger Than The Happy Meal | Fred Clark
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/18/the-biblical-view-thats-younger-than-the-happy-meal/

Started laying out the power supply for the switch engine board. Still needs some work but it's getting there,

🍻 Stammtisch München 🥨
Der kommende #Stammtisch ist am Montag 14. Juli, wir Treffen uns und besprechen was gerade so ansteht und passiert.
🧡 Gäste sind herzlich willkommen, gebt uns aber gerne vorher Bescheid insbesondere wenn ihr bestimmte Themen/Fragen habt!
📆 Montag, 14. Juli 2025, ab 19:00 Uhr
📍 Sappralott, Donnersbergerstraße 37, 80634 München
👉 Kalender:

New release: FlowIntel 1.6.0 — an open-source case management tool — now with extended support for importing MISP events as cases, a timeline view for attributes, a new templating system for notes, and many other new features!
🔗 https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/releases/tag/1…

Release Flowintel release version 1.6.0 with new features, modifications on analyzer and dashboard · flowintel/flowintel
This release introduces several new features, including: Templates for notes that can be reused across cases Importing a Flowintel template into a case Creating a case from a MISP event A timeline...

Iceland says hi. 👋
#Eldfell #Vestmannaeyjar #Heimaey

Summer in the City
#SanFrancisco

Tech billionaire Trump adviser
Marc Andreessen
recently said universities will
“pay the price” for promoting diversity and allegedly discriminating against Trump supporters,
according to messages he sent to a group chat with White House officials and technology leaders.

The billionaire’s messages cited Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University
and the National Science Foundation.

“I view Stanford and MIT as mainly political lobbying o…

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

Lesen und lernen über Planstädte und sozialistische Städteplanung. Google Street View ist großartig. #heuteso #stadtplanung

RT: @PsyPost (X)
A new study suggests that people who view artificial intelligence positively may be more likely to overuse social media. The findings highlight a potential link between attitudes toward AI and problematic online behavior, especially among male users.
https://www.

Positive attitudes toward AI linked to more prone to problematic social media use
A new study suggests that people who view artificial intelligence positively may be more likely to overuse social media. The findings highlight a potential link between attitudes toward AI and problematic online behavior, especially among male users.

»Bislang ist nicht erkennbar, dass aus den möglichen Bruchlinien ein herausfordernder Widerstand im eigenen Lager erwachsen würde.« - Erhellender Beitrag von Martin Kronauer zu den Entwicklungen in den USA als Online-First bei @…

Bradley's understanding of this is outstanding. We can discount the goal, perhaps, but he was so very good in both directions. He was constantly showing up in places that Salah left for him and his chemistry w/ Mo & Szoboszlai is terrific. Frimpong;s signing asked questions about who might be the starter. In my view, it's Bradley. Frimpong was good. He's certainly fast, but he didn't get to show as much offensively and Bradley is a better defender. I think it's depth/…

COLI: A Hierarchical Efficient Compressor for Large Images
Haoran Wang, Hanyu Pei, Yang Lyu, Kai Zhang, Li Li, Feng-Lei Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11443

COLI: A Hierarchical Efficient Compressor for Large Images
The escalating adoption of high-resolution, large-field-of-view imagery amplifies the need for efficient compression methodologies. Conventional techniques frequently fail to preserve critical image details, while data-driven approaches exhibit limited generalizability. Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) present a promising alternative by learning continuous mappings from spatial coordinates to pixel intensities for individual images, thereby storing network weights rather than raw pixels a…

Green Therapy
(an impression from an early morning hike last July)
#ForestFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

CGVQM D: Computer Graphics Video Quality Metric and Dataset
Akshay Jindal, Nabil Sadaka, Manu Mathew Thomas, Anton Sochenov, Anton Kaplanyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11546

CGVQM+D: Computer Graphics Video Quality Metric and Dataset
While existing video and image quality datasets have extensively studied natural videos and traditional distortions, the perception of synthetic content and modern rendering artifacts remains underexplored. We present a novel video quality dataset focused on distortions introduced by advanced rendering techniques, including neural supersampling, novel-view synthesis, path tracing, neural denoising, frame interpolation, and variable rate shading. Our evaluations show that existing full-reference…

DCD: A Semantic Segmentation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Four-Chamber View
Donglian Li, Hui Guo, Minglang Chen, Huizhen Chen, Jialing Chen, Bocheng Liang, Pengchen Liang, Ying Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08534

DCD: A Semantic Segmentation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Four-Chamber View
Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures in the apical four-chamber (A4C) view of fetal echocardiography is essential for early diagnosis and prenatal evaluation of congenital heart disease (CHD). However, precise segmentation remains challenging due to ultrasound artifacts, speckle noise, anatomical variability, and boundary ambiguity across different gestational stages. To reduce the workload of sonographers and enhance segmentation accuracy, we propose DCD, an advanced deep learning-ba…

Google rolls out historical Street View imagery on Google Earth as the service turns 20, and says pro US users can access AI insights, like tree canopy coverage (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/google-brings…

Google brings historical Street View imagery to Google Earth | TechCrunch
Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth.

Had a chance to fly with L, certified flight instructor at University of #NorthDakota. The Homme Dam on the Park River, and boulder piles in a field near Pisek, ND, in this glaciated terrain.

Nice day for a morning drive to the airport!

Joint Optimization-based Targetless Extrinsic Calibration for Multiple LiDARs and GNSS-Aided INS of Ground Vehicles
Junhui Wang, Yan Qiao, Chao Gao, Naiqi Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08349

Joint Optimization-based Targetless Extrinsic Calibration for Multiple LiDARs and GNSS-Aided INS of Ground Vehicles
Accurate extrinsic calibration between multiple LiDAR sensors and a GNSS-aided inertial navigation system (GINS) is essential for achieving reliable sensor fusion in intelligent mining environments. Such calibration enables vehicle-road collaboration by aligning perception data from vehicle-mounted sensors to a unified global reference frame. However, existing methods often depend on artificial targets, overlapping fields of view, or precise trajectory estimation, which are assumptions that may…

Hoping for a #flare: During the final days of our 2 week observation campaign with #GREGORSolarTelescope on Tenerife, scientists work remote from the “GREGOR Operations Center” at #MPSGoettingen

Will Russia break the West? A view from inside NATO | Wrap-up Analytics: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/will-russia-break-the-west.html

Milwaukee Bike Map Hub
"Track the progress of protected bikeways, plan your bike route through the city, and view existing bike infrastructure maps..."
There's also a bike rack locator, a "low stress" bike map, and other useful info.
https://storymaps.arcgis.co…

Milwaukee Bike Map Hub
Track the progress of protected bikeways, plan your bike route through the city, and view existing bike infrastructure maps

CLiFT: Compressive Light-Field Tokens for Compute-Efficient and Adaptive Neural Rendering
Zhengqing Wang, Yuefan Wu, Jiacheng Chen, Fuyang Zhang, Yasutaka Furukawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08776

CLiFT: Compressive Light-Field Tokens for Compute-Efficient and Adaptive Neural Rendering
This paper proposes a neural rendering approach that represents a scene as "compressed light-field tokens (CLiFTs)", retaining rich appearance and geometric information of a scene. CLiFT enables compute-efficient rendering by compressed tokens, while being capable of changing the number of tokens to represent a scene or render a novel view with one trained network. Concretely, given a set of images, multi-view encoder tokenizes the images with the camera poses. Latent-space K-means selects a re…

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在空中 - 窗外 ✈️ ☁️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
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I just got into biking again as an adult, and I’m loving it!
Now I’m on the hunt for a simple open source app to track how far I ride. Bonus points if it’s on GitHub, if not, at least F-Droid works. If there’s nothing bike-specific, I’m cool with any travel or hiking tracker too.
I use a Pixel 9a with GrapheneOS.
Any recs? Drop ’em here! 🙌

Majestic Trinity: Trettachspitze, Mädelegabel, Hochfrottspitze.
(Picture taken two weeks ago. If you zoom in & squint you can make out the crosses on the three summits...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

ResPF: Residual Poisson Flow for Efficient and Physically Consistent Sparse-View CT Reconstruction
Changsheng Fang, Yongtong Liu, Bahareh Morovati, Shuo Han, Yu Shi, Li Zhou, Shuyi Fan, Hengyong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06400

ResPF: Residual Poisson Flow for Efficient and Physically Consistent Sparse-View CT Reconstruction
Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is a practical solution to reduce radiation dose, but the resulting ill-posed inverse problem poses significant challenges for accurate image reconstruction. Although deep learning and diffusion-based methods have shown promising results, they often lack physical interpretability or suffer from high computational costs due to iterative sampling starting from random noise. Recent advances in generative modeling, particularly Poisson Flow Generative Models (PF…

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🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
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#filmphotography

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#Minnesota lake life - a bit hazy from wildfire smoke

Edit360: 2D Image Edits to 3D Assets from Any Angle
Junchao Huang, Xinting Hu, Zhuotao Tian, Shaoshuai Shi, Li Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10507 https…

Edit360: 2D Image Edits to 3D Assets from Any Angle
Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved image generation and editing, but extending these capabilities to 3D assets remains challenging, especially for fine-grained edits that require multi-view consistency. Existing methods typically restrict editing to predetermined viewing angles, severely limiting their flexibility and practical applications. We introduce Edit360, a tuning-free framework that extends 2D modifications to multi-view consistent 3D editing. Built upon vi…

From One to More: Contextual Part Latents for 3D Generation
Shaocong Dong, Lihe Ding, Xiao Chen, Yaokun Li, Yuxin Wang, Yucheng Wang, Qi Wang, Jaehyeok Kim, Chenjian Gao, Zhanpeng Huang, Zibin Wang, Tianfan Xue, Dan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08772

From One to More: Contextual Part Latents for 3D Generation
Recent advances in 3D generation have transitioned from multi-view 2D rendering approaches to 3D-native latent diffusion frameworks that exploit geometric priors in ground truth data. Despite progress, three key limitations persist: (1) Single-latent representations fail to capture complex multi-part geometries, causing detail degradation; (2) Holistic latent coding neglects part independence and interrelationships critical for compositional design; (3) Global conditioning mechanisms lack fine-…

Faculty Position at The University of #Iowa
solid Earth #geology, focused on structural geology, tectonics, geochronology, thermochronology, critical minerals, or geodynamics.

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ProJo4D: Progressive Joint Optimization for Sparse-View Inverse Physics Estimation
Neural rendering has made significant strides in 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. With the integration with physics, it opens up new applications. The inverse problem of estimating physics from visual data, however, still remains challenging, limiting its effectiveness for applications like physically accurate digital twin creation in robotics and XR. Existing methods that incorporate physics into neural rendering frameworks typically require dense multi-view videos as input, making …

Multi-modal Representations for Fine-grained Multi-label Critical View of Safety Recognition
Britty Baby, Vinkle Srivastav, Pooja P. Jain, Kun Yuan, Pietro Mascagni, Nicolas Padoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05007

Multi-modal Representations for Fine-grained Multi-label Critical View of Safety Recognition
The Critical View of Safety (CVS) is crucial for safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy, yet assessing CVS criteria remains a complex and challenging task, even for experts. Traditional models for CVS recognition depend on vision-only models learning with costly, labor-intensive spatial annotations. This study investigates how text can be harnessed as a powerful tool for both training and inference in multi-modal surgical foundation models to automate CVS recognition. Unlike many existing multi-moda…

Active View Selector: Fast and Accurate Active View Selection with Cross Reference Image Quality Assessment
Zirui Wang, Yash Bhalgat, Ruining Li, Victor Adrian Prisacariu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19844

Active View Selector: Fast and Accurate Active View Selection with Cross Reference Image Quality Assessment
We tackle active view selection in novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction. Existing methods like FisheRF and ActiveNeRF select the next best view by minimizing uncertainty or maximizing information gain in 3D, but they require specialized designs for different 3D representations and involve complex modelling in 3D space. Instead, we reframe this as a 2D image quality assessment (IQA) task, selecting views where current renderings have the lowest quality. Since ground-truth images for candid…