Abstract: Reliable place recognition is essential to SLAM, as it enables loop closure detection, re-localization, and map merging in long-term operation and multi-robot deployments. While semantic ...

Celebrate the simple mathematical sequence that is hidden in everything from sunflower spirals to Da Vinci's paintings Discover why the sequence is considered nature's secret code, governing ...

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Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830049 Xinjiang, China College of Mathematics and System ...

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a classical statistics technique that's used to infer if the unknown means (averages) of three or more groups are likely to all be equal or not, based on the variances ...

Is a mysterious visitor from the depths of space trying to tell us something? According to a controversial theory, the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS is not just a silent traveller but a ...

In biology, repeated emergence of the same functional trait in evolution is important as it provides opportunity to decode the relations between genome or protein sequences to specific functions. Such ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...