This paper presents a novel bio-inspired predictive model of visual navigation inspired by mammalian navigation. This model takes inspiration from specific types of neurons observed in the brain, namely place cells, grid cells and head direction cell...
Multiplex networks have been widely used to describe the multi-type connections of entities in the real world. However, researches for multiplex networks visualization unilaterally focus on the presentation of topological structure, lacking of specif...
Access to the sky is a key element of residential environmental quality. In densely built-up urban areas, exposure to the sky is often limited not only quantitatively but, above all, directionally. Traditional illuminance metrics, such as the Sky Vie...
Despite the widespread use of information measures in analyzing probabilistic systems, effective visualization tools for understanding complex dependencies in sequential data are scarce. In this work, we introduce the information matrix (InfoMat), a...
In recent years, SLAM, visual odometry, and structure-from-motion approaches have widely addressed the problems of 3D reconstruction and ego-motion estimation. Of the many input modalities that can be used to solve these ill-posed problems, the pure...
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, educational practices continue to be predominantly centered around outcome-oriented approaches. These practices are now thoroughly disrupted by the recent accessibility of online resources and chatbots....
In several strongly correlated electron systems, the short range ordering of defects, charge and local lattice distortions are found to show complex inhomogeneous spatial distributions. There is growing evidence that such inhomogeneity plays a fundam...
Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) matches unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images with geotagged satellite imagery to support visual localization in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-challenged environments. However, substantial cross-view disc...
Background and Objective: Laser marking has emerged as a promising technique for producing controlled surface modifications on metallic substrates. This preliminary material-level feasibility study investigates the Infrared (IR) direct pulsed-laser m...
Dynamic objects present a major challenge for visual simultaneous localization and mapping (Visual SLAM), as feature measurements originating from moving regions can corrupt camera pose estimation and lead to inaccurate maps. In this paper, we propos...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to compare glottic visualization and intubation performance during laryngoscopy with the C-MAC video laryngoscope size 1 Miller blade using direct epiglottic elevation versus vallecular placement of the blade t...
Background: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) are individually increasingly used in psychiatric research. Objective/Hypothesis: Our study aimed to investigate the feasibility of combining tDCS...
Traditional monocular and stereo visual SLAM systems often fail to operate stably in complex unstructured environments (e.g., weakly textured or repetitively textured scenes) due to feature scarcity from their limited fields of view. In contrast, mul...
CO2 injection to enhance shale oil recovery provides a win-win solution to meet the global fuel shortage and realize ultimate carbon neutrality. When shale reservoirs contain high salinity water, CO2 injection can result in salt precipitation to bloc...
Ru catalyst nanoparticles were encapsulated into the pores of a Cr-based metal-organic framework (MOF)—MIL-101. The obtained material, as well as the non-loaded MIL-101, were investigated down to the atomic scale by annular dark-field scanning transm...
Orientation estimation is a crucial part of robotics tasks such as motion control, autonomous navigation, and 3D mapping. In this paper, we propose a robust visual-based method to estimate robots’ drift-free orientation with RGB-D cameras. Firs...
Layer-specific cortical microcircuits have been explored through invasive animal studies, yet it is not possible to reliably characterize them functionally and noninvasively in the human brain. However, recent advances in ultra-high-field functional...
Graphs are often used to model data with a relational structure and graphs are usually visualised into node-link diagrams for a better understanding of the underlying data. Node-link diagrams represent not only data entries in a graph, but also the r...
This study aimed to explore the directional stability issues of a previously studied light box-wing aircraft model with a pusher propeller engine in the fuselage aft section. Earlier configurations have included the use of fuselage together with a li...
In recent research, dendritic neuron-based models have shown promise in effectively learning and recognizing object motion direction within binary images. Leveraging the dendritic neuron structure and On–Off Response mechanism within the primar...
Nowadays, state-of-the-art direct visual odometry (VO) methods essentially rely on points to estimate the pose of the camera and reconstruct the environment. Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) became the standard technique and many approaches have been dev...
Development of rapid, precise and fieldable detection methods for foodborne pathogens is one of the essential requirements in food safety and public health. In this research, the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the eae gene of Escherichia c...
Recently, the high-pressure fuel injection performance of common-rail direct injection (CRDi) engines has become more important, due to the need to improve the multi-injection strategy. A multiple injection strategy provides better emission and fuel...
Due to the expansion of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power systems, manufacturers of high-voltage (HV) hardware for alternating current (ac) applications are focusing their efforts towards the HVDC market. Because of the historical preponderanc...
Natural genetic transformation is a programmed mechanism of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. It requires the development of competence, a specialized physiological state during which proteins involved in DNA uptake and chromosomal integration ar...
A phenomenon of crystalline sponge is represented by guest-dependent structural fluidity of the host polymeric lattice in highly crystalline sorbents, such as metal-organic frameworks, driven by multiple weak intermolecular interactions. Such induced...
Background: Literature suggests that both the Stroop task and visual short-term memory (VSTM) binding tasks can differentiate individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) from cognitively normal older adults. These cognitive processes have rarely...
Background/Objectives: Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) shows potential for enhancing attention and learning, yet its effects in applied contexts remain underexplored. This study investigated whether transcranial direct current stimulation (...
Data symmetry and asymmetry might cause difficulties in various areas including criteria weighting approaches. Preference elicitation is an integral part of the multicriteria decision-making process. Weighting approaches differ in terms of accuracy,...
Traditional urban and architectural design presupposes an upright, forward-looking pedestrian who perceives the street as a three-dimensional field of facades, thresholds, and vistas. This assumption no longer reliably holds for the smartphone-era pe...
We designed a hands-on laboratory exercise to demonstrate why injecting an aqueous polymer solution into an oil reservoir (commonly known as “polymer flooding”) enhances oil production. Students are split into three groups of two to three...
Chinese Qilou Architecture Heritage (CQAH) serves commercial and residential functions, integrates Southeast Asian and local Chinese architectural features, and is a unique testimony to modern commerce and culture of the overseas Chinese hometown. Si...
Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) approaches have achieved a major breakthrough in recent years. This paper presents a new monocular visual odometry algorithm able to localize in 3D a robot or a camera inside an unknown environment...
A brain–computer interface (BCI) is a promising technology that can analyze brain signals and control a robot or computer according to a user’s intention. This paper introduces our studies to overcome the challenges of using BCIs in daily...
Some fundamental visual features have been found to be fully extracted before reaching the cerebral cortex. We focus on direction-selective ganglion cells (DSGCs), which exist at the terminal end of the retinal pathway, at the forefront of the visual...
In this study, we investigated the surface-confined coupling reactions of 1,8-dibromobiphenylene (BPBr2) on Cu(111) to elucidate the details of the organometallic intermediates via Ullmann reactions. We used scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to cha...
Most existing reactive agility assessments rely on screen-based or light-based stimuli that are spatially separated from the movement execution plane, thereby limiting ecological validity. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a novel...
In this paper, we present a novel method for visual-inertial odometry for land vehicles. Our technique is robust to unintended, but unavoidable bumps, encountered when an off-road land vehicle traverses over potholes, speed-bumps or general change in...
Background: Reaction time and coordination are key performance components in team sports such as handball, particularly during the developmental years. Integrating visual and cognitive stimuli through smart technologies has been shown to facilitate m...
Geography textbooks have many visuals, such as maps, graphs, tables, photographs, and illustrations, which makes geography a highly visual school subject. However, previous studies show that geography students can pay surprisingly little attention to...
The complexity and functional evolution of mammalian visual systems have always been a focal point in neuroscience and biological science research. The primary neurons that output motion direction signals have been a focal point of research in visual...
The perception of motion direction is essential for the survival of visual animals. Despite various theoretical and biophysical investigations that have been conducted to elucidate directional selectivity at the neural level, the systemic mechanism o...
Visual–inertial odometry (VIO) is the primary supporting technology for autonomous systems, but it faces three major challenges: initialization sensitivity, dynamic illumination, and multi-sensor fusion. In order to overcome these challenges, t...
This paper presents a direct image-based controller to perform the guidance of a mobile manipulator using image-based control. An eye-in-hand camera is employed to perform the guidance of a mobile differential platform with a seven degrees-of-freedom...
The loss of localization in robots navigating GNSS-denied environments poses a critical challenge that can compromise mission success and safe operation. This article presents a method that fuses visual odometry outputs from both direct and feature-b...
There remains great interest in understanding the relationship between visual impairment (VI) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) due to the extraordinarily high prevalence of ASD in blind and visually impaired children. The broad variability across i...
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Green exercise research often reports psychological health outcomes without rigorously controlling exercise. This study examines effects of visual exercise environments on directed attention, perceived exertion and time to exhaustion, whilst measurin...
Motion perception in biological vision is influenced by experience-dependent processes, during which direction-selective responses emerge and are further refined over time, although the underlying mechanisms remain partially understood. This study pr...
Crew fatigue from standing posture motion, caused by ship motion, can lead to marine accidents. Therefore, the mechanism of fatigue in crew members ought to be elucidated. The standing posture of humans is maintained by postural state detection throu...
Brain–computer interface (BCI) systems have demonstrated significant potential across medical, educational, and entertainment domains. Recently, visual imagery (VI) has emerged as an alternative to traditional motor imagery (MI) paradigms, offe...
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