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Martin Schrimpf, Matthias Bethge
In the target article, Bowers et al. dispute deep artificial neural network (ANN) models as the currently leading models of human vision without producing alternatives. They eschew the use of public benchmarking platforms to compare vision models with the ...
Cambridge2023The irreducibility of vision: Gestalt, crowding and the fundamentals of vision
What is fundamental in vision has been discussed for millennia. For philosophical realists and the physiological approach to vision, the objects of the outer world are truly given, and failures to perceive objects properly, such as in illusions, are just s ...
2022International Symposium on Bedload Management 2021
The ambition of this symposium was to review and create knowledge and praxis in bedload management, support the implementation of restoration measures in Switzerland and strengthen the international network among scientists and practitioners. Switzerland h ...
Wasser-Agenda 212021SciClops: Detecting and Contextualizing Scientific Claims for Assisting Manual Fact-Checking
Karl Aberer, Panagiotis Smeros, Carlos Castillo
This paper describes SciClops, a method to help combat online scientific misinformation. Although automated fact-checking methods have gained significant attention recently, they require pre-existing ground-truth evidence, which, in the scientific context, ...
ACM2021Turning negative into positives! Exploiting 'negative' results in Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) research
Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Camille Marie Jeunet
Results that do not confirm expectations are generally referred to as 'negative' results. While essential for scientific progress, they are too rarely reported in the literature - Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) research is no exception. This led us to organ ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020Small satellites for space science A COSPAR scientific roadmap
Volker Gass, Jie Wu, Maurice Borgeaud
This is a COSPAR roadmap to advance the frontiers of science through innovation and international collaboration using small satellites. The world of small satellites is evolving quickly and an opportunity exists to leverage these developments to make scien ...
ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019From experimental evidence to mechanical modeling and design expressions: The Critical Shear Crack Theory for shear design
Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz
Many research efforts have so far been devoted to the topic of shear design of members without transverse reinforcement since the first development in structural concrete. This has allowed a number of significant advances in the understanding of the phenom ...
2019Unleashing the power of semantic text analysis: a complex systems approach
In the present information era, a huge amount of machine-readable data is available regarding scientific publications. Such unprecedented wealth of data offers the opportunity to investigate science itself as a complex interacting system by means of quanti ...
EPFL2018The Search for Affordable Cement and Concrete in the 18th and 19th Century
The interest of German building masters towards hydraulic binders grows at the third decade of the 19th century. This acute interest is stimulated by the import of «Roman Cement» from England and by the acquisition of the knowledge related to it. The disse ...
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