Abstract: There are two mainstream approaches for object detection: top-down and bottom-up. The state-of-the-art approaches are mainly top-down methods. In this paper, we demonstrate that bottom-up ...

How Bhakti poetry, Sufi courts, and manuscript cultures together shaped Hindi as a written language. A multilingual, material history of vernacular power—read more.

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

Abstract: A Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot (MSR) is an Internet of Robotic Things object (IoRT) composed of an ensemble of independent communicating robotic modules that can self-reconfigure to ...

The Netflix sci-fi is back after a three-year wait, with its young stars now in their 20s – and the first four episodes of this final season suggest an "all-time ending" is in store. It's almost hard ...