New interactive map models dust exposure from shrinking Great Salt Lake

Most people can imagine why a shrinking Great Salt Lake would mean unhealthy dust storms for the Wasatch Front, or why refilling the lake through water conservation could reduce dust exposure. Now, ...
IEEE

fpgaConvNet: Mapping Regular and Irregular Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGAs

Abstract: Since neural networks renaissance, convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have demonstrated a state-of-the-art performance in several emerging artificial intelligence tasks. The deployment ...

Woolly rhino genome recovered from Ice Age wolf stomach

Researchers from the Center for Paleogenetics have managed to analyze the genome from a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros, ...

Shocking audit reveals state workers covered tracks by backdating documents. Grantee was paid $672K for 1 month of work with no info on what they did

The audit also found that agency officials repeatedly approved large grants without competitive bidding, adequate records or ...
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LeGO-LOAM: Lightweight and Ground-Optimized Lidar Odometry and Mapping on Variable Terrain

Abstract: We propose a lightweight and ground-optimized lidar odometry and mapping method, LeGO-LOAM, for realtime six degree-of-freedom pose estimation with ground vehicles. LeGO-LOAM is lightweight, ...