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Visual Storytelling is a challenging multimodal task between Vision & Language, where the purpose is to generate a story for a stream of images. Its difficulty lies on the fact that the story should be both grounded to the image sequence…
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I discuss the use of light as a collection of real and virtual photons to study lingering questions in particle and nuclear physics.
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