National Audubon Society

Meet the Kid Who Wowed the Internet With His Incredibly Accurate Bird Calls

When 10-year-old Samuel Henderson decided to share his bird calls at a school talent show this past May, he wasn’t nervous at all. In fact, in his mind, he was playing to a much larger audience than ...
IEEE

Benchmarking and Improving Bird’s Eye View Perception Robustness in Autonomous Driving

Abstract: Recent advancements in bird’s eye view (BEV) representations have shown remarkable promise for in-vehicle 3D perception. However, while these methods have achieved impressive results on ...
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A bird's-eye view of Indonesia’s post-tsunami rebirth: 20 years on

Twenty years ago, one of the most powerful natural disasters in recorded history changed this landscape forever. Today, from above, Banda Aceh tells a different story…one of remembrance, resilience, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

When Clarence Birdseye Tasted the Trout That Had Been Frozen by Inuit Fishermen, It Changed the Way We Buy Food

The key to maintaining freshness, Birdseye realized, was crystallization. When a food freezes slowly, the liquid within it forms large ice crystals, which damage its cell structure. The result when ...
IEEE

Dense Semantic Bird-Eye-View Map Generation from Sparse LiDAR Point Clouds via Distribution-aware Feature Fusion

Semantic scene understanding in bird-eye view (BEV) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. A common approach to generating BEV maps from LiDAR point-cloud data involves constructing a ...