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The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak is causing a dramatic worsening in the already complicated living conditions of blind and visually impaired individuals. Social distancing is the most effective strategy to limit virus spread, but is extremely difficult for b ...
We present a method that can recognize new objects and estimate their 3D pose in RGB images even under partial occlusions. Our method requires neither a training phase on these objects nor real images depicting them, only their CAD models. It relies on a s ...
Simulating realistic sensors is a challenging part in data generation for autonomous systems, often involving carefully handcrafted sensor design, scene properties, and physics modeling. To alleviate this, we introduce a pipeline for data-driven simulation ...
In recent decades, major efforts to digitize historical documents led to the creation of large machine readable corpora, including newspapers, which are waiting to be processed and analyzed. Newspapers are a valuable historical source, notably because of t ...
Light matter interactions such as extinction, reflection, and transmission can be described by classical optics. Dur-ing the past decades, research focused on a novel resonant extinction type called plasmonics that allows for en-hancement of both types of ...
Der Wald – seit Jahrhunderten von Menschen genutzt – wird mit der wachsenden Industrialisierung ab dem 19. Jahrhundert zunehmend zerstört. Bald treten Persönlichkeiten wie Paul Sarasin und später Bruno Manser hervor und machen sich für den Erhalt des Walde ...
L’étude architecturale et archéologique du complexe castral de la ville d’Akerentia en Calabre, complétée par la lecture des rapports de visites épiscopales nous apprend que d’anciens tremblements de terre ont secoué, au cours du Moyen Âge, la ville et la ...
Cet article porte sur la disqualification durable d’alertes médicales et de craintes environnementales concernant la fumée des locomotives à vapeur, à travers l’étude de deux anecdotes renvoyant à des épisodes historiques des années 1820-1830 : l’expressio ...
Porteous, ancien bâtiment industriel dédié à l’épuration des eaux usées, est récemment reconverti en centre socio-culturel grâce à l’occupation du mouvement « Prenons la ville ». Quelques années après l’avoir abordé, avoir érigé une cabane sur sa toiture, ...
