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LRDDv2: Enhanced Long-Range Drone Detection Dataset with Range Information and Comprehensive Real-World Challenges
Amirreza Rouhi, Sneh Patel, Noah McCarthy, Siddiqa Khan, Hadi Khorsand, Kaleb Lefkowitz, David K. Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03331

LRDDv2: Enhanced Long-Range Drone Detection Dataset with Range Information and Comprehensive Real-World Challenges
The exponential growth in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) usage underscores the critical need of detecting them at extended distances to ensure safe operations, especially in densely populated areas. Despite the tremendous advances made in computer vision through deep learning, the detection of these small airborne objects remains a formidable challenge. While several datasets have been developed specifically for drone detection, the need for a more extensive and diverse collection of drone ima…

Voxlect: A Speech Foundation Model Benchmark for Modeling Dialects and Regional Languages Around the Globe
Tiantian Feng, Kevin Huang, Anfeng Xu, Xuan Shi, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Jihwan Lee, Yoonjeong Lee, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01691

Voxlect: A Speech Foundation Model Benchmark for Modeling Dialects and Regional Languages Around the Globe
We present Voxlect, a novel benchmark for modeling dialects and regional languages worldwide using speech foundation models. Specifically, we report comprehensive benchmark evaluations on dialects and regional language varieties in English, Arabic, Mandarin and Cantonese, Tibetan, Indic languages, Thai, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, and Italian. Our study used over 2 million training utterances from 30 publicly available speech corpora that are provided with dialectal informati…

@cnn.com reporter Erin Burnett showing LAPD's spent munitions and claims *protesters* are shooting them at police
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Orbital:
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Lord Beginner:
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Ah yes, the "balancing act" of LAPD shooting unarmed lone women at point blank range with rubber bullets for attempting to access their homes. Who among us hasn't had to consider such tradeoffs?
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Impact of angle-dependent recombination on neutrino energy reconstruction in LArTPCs
J. Vences, J. Maneira, C. Vilela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10551 http…

Impact of angle-dependent recombination on neutrino energy reconstruction in LArTPCs
The technology of Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chambers (LArTPC) plays a very important role in modern neutrino physics. It allows precise tracking and calorimetry in detectors with very large volume and mass. One important component of LArTPC calorimetric energy reconstruction is the electron-ion recombination effect. Existing experiments have provided constraints to its empirical description, including an explicit dependence on the particle's angle with respect to the TPC's electric field. …

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Optimal Transport for $e/\pi^0$ Particle Classification in LArTPC Neutrino Experiments
David Caratelli, Nathaniel Craig, Chuyue Fang, Jessica N. Howard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09238

Optimal Transport for $e/π^0$ Particle Classification in LArTPC Neutrino Experiments
The efficient classification of electromagnetic activity from $π^0$ and electrons remains an open problem in the reconstruction of neutrino interactions in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detectors. We address this problem using the mathematical framework of Optimal Transport (OT), which has been successfully employed for event classification in other HEP contexts and is ideally suited to the high-resolution calorimetry of LArTPCs. Using a publicly available simulated dataset fro…

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George Riley & Mura Masa:
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