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Depth completion from sparse LiDAR and high-resolution RGB data is one of the foundations for autonomous driving techniques. Current approaches often rely on CNN-based methods with several known drawbacks: flying pixel at depth…

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To cope with the higher occupancy and radiation damage at the HL-LHC also the LHC experiments will be upgraded. The ATLAS Planar Pixel Sensor R&D Project (PPS) is an international collaboration of 17 institutions and more than 80…

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