Twisted 2D materials get an ultraclean, scalable upgrade for future quantum devices

Exciting electronic characteristics emerge when scientists stack 2D materials on top of each other and give the top layer a ...
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The snake-identification clue most people get wrong in the yard

Most people’s mental snake-ID kit in the yard comes down to a couple of half-remembered rules: “triangular head means... The ...
IEEE

Zero in on Shape: A Generic 2D-3D Instance Similarity Metric Learned from Synthetic Data

Abstract: We present a network architecture which compares RGB images and untextured 3D models by the similarity of the represented shape. Our system is optimised for zero-shot retrieval, meaning it ...
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Identifying Trends in Gold Nanoparticle Toxicity and Uptake: Size, Shape, Capping Ligand, and Biological Corona

Sir Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility, NanoBiotechnology Research Laboratory, School of Science and Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Physics, School of Science, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, ...
IEEE

Fourier Transform to Group Feature on Generated Coarser Contours for Fast 2D Shape Matching

Abstract: Fourier descriptors are classical global shape descriptors with high matching speed but low accuracy. To obtain higher accuracy, a novel framework for forming Fourier descriptors is proposed ...