Michigan Technological University

Ultra-high-resolution Lidar Reveals Hidden Cloud Structures

In this guest blog, Karen McNulty Walsh of Brookhaven National Laboratory explains how Michigan Technological University ...
CIO

Why CIOs need a new approach to unstructured data management

Unstructured data isn’t an asset by default — it’s a liability until CIOs govern, lifecycle and curate it for AI-ready value.
GitHub

SMPLFitter: The Fast Way From Vertices to Parametric 3D Humans

This repository contains code for efficiently fitting parametric SMPL/SMPL+H/SMPL-X human body models to nonparametric 3D vertex and joint locations. The input needs to be in correspondence with the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Astronomers Find an Odd Space Cloud, Like a Galaxy Without Stars, That Could Shed Light on the Secrets of Dark Matter

Named “Cloud-9,” the discovery is a new type of celestial object known as a RELHIC, making it unlike anything scientists have ...
IEEE

Accelerate Point Cloud Structuring for Deep Neural Networks via Fast Spatial-Searching Tree

Abstract: Due to the disorder of points, point clouds need to be structured by sampling and neighbor query before feeding to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Structuring point clouds costs high ...
IEEE

A Multithreaded Denoising Algorithm for LiDAR Point Clouds Based on Moving Least Squares

Abstract: LiDAR point cloud data is essential in autonomous driving, robotic navigation, and 3D modeling. However, noise caused by sensor errors and environmental factors degrades data quality and ...