XMM-Newton and Chandra help revise distance to Milky Way's outer spiral arms

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescopes have spotted the aftermath of three bright explosions echoing through the outer spiral arms of our galaxy, the Milky ...
IEEE

Prompt-Based Two-Stage Enhancement for Low-Light Object Detection

Detecting objects in low-light conditions is challenging since the primary features of objects may be buried in dark regions. To tackle this issue, we propose a prompt-based two-stage enhancement (PTE ...
GitHub

Improving and Evaluating Hand-Object Interaction Detection

HOI-DETR is a transformer-based framework for detecting hands, hand-held objects, and their interactions in images and video. Built on the Co-DETR architecture, it adds a lightweight interaction ...
IEEE

Dual Arm Steering of Flexible Linear Objects in 2-D and 3-D Environments Using Euler's Elastica Solutions

Abstract: This paper describes a method for steering flexible linear objects using two robot hands in environments populated by sparsely spaced obstacles. The approach involves manipulating an elastic ...