Interesting Engineering

New knitting machine weaves solid 3D forms, adding stitches in any direction

A team from Cornell and Carnegie Mellon has created a knitting machine that constructs solid 3D shapes by adding stitches in ...
C&EN

Mechanical Regulation of Mitochondrial Dynamics and Function in a 3D-Engineered Liver Tumor Microenvironment

Department of Optical and Biophysical Systems, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 18221, Czech Republic ...
C&EN

3D Biofabrication of a Cardiac Tissue Construct for Sustained Longevity and Function

Inspired Materials & Stem-Cell Based Tissue Engineering Laboratory (IMSTEL), The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States Department of Metallurgical, Materials, and ...
IEEE

Active Contour Model Driven by Non-Local Feature Fitting Energy Function With Scalable Normalization

Abstract: It is challenging for active contour models (ACMs) to segment weak-edge and noisy images efficiently and accurately. To solve this problem, a novel ACM is proposed in this work. The proposed ...
IEEE

Contour Context: Abstract Structural Distribution for 3D LiDAR Loop Detection and Metric Pose Estimation

Abstract: This paper proposes Contour Context, a simple, effective, and efficient topological loop closure detection pipeline with accurate 3-DoF metric pose estimation, targeting the urban autonomous ...