The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

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Abstract: Modern diffusion-based image generative models have made significant progress and become promising to enrich training data for the object detection task. However, the generation quality and ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...

Traffic monitoring plays a vital role in smart city infrastructure, road safety, and urban planning. Traditional detection systems, including earlier deep learning models, often struggle with ...

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This repository is the official implementation of LMM-Det, a simple yet effective approach that leverages a Large Multimodal Model for vanilla object Detection without relying on specialized detection ...