Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often deemed a diagram or symbol of an ideal universe. Mandalas come in many forms. Often they are painted on scrolls and taken with travelers over long ...

Abstract: Sampling-based planning algorithms play an important role in high degree-of-freedom motion planning (MP) problems, in which rapidly-exploring random tree (RRT) and the faster bidirectional ...

InternImage: Exploring Large-Scale Vision Foundation Models with Deformable Convolutions. InternImage is an advanced vision foundation model developed by researchers from Shanghai AI Laboratory, ...

Abstract: Efficient robotic navigation requires a predefined map. Various autonomous exploration strategies exist, which direct robots to unexplored space by detecting frontiers. Frontiers are ...

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Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...