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In this work we introduce Natural Segmentation and Matching (NSM), an algorithm for reliable localization, using laser, in both urban and natural environments. Current state-of-the-art global approaches do not generalize well to…
Global forest cover is critical to the provision of certain ecosystem services. With the advent of the google earth engine cloud platform, fine resolution global land cover mapping task could be accomplished in a matter of days instead of…
Tracking cells in 3D at high speed continues to attract extensive attention for many biomedical applications, such as monitoring immune cell migration and observing tumor metastasis in flowing blood vessels. Here, we propose a deep…
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