Abstract: Slender flexible objects are ubiquitous in real-world circumstances. The existing object detection and segmentation algorithms have achieved high accuracy and speed in rigid objects, but the ...

Abstract: Visual object navigation is an essential task of embodied AI, which is letting the agent navigate to the goal object under the user’s demand. Previous methods often focus on single-object ...

Summary: A new study demonstrates that some highly gifted dogs can categorize objects not just by appearance, but by how they are used. When taught words like “pull” or “fetch,” these dogs later ...

There is a longstanding debate over the relevance of form and function in architecture and design, with different schools of thought representing various perspectives. Indeed, the relationship between ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Brandon Seabrook's Object of Unknown Function feels like a sonic experiment gone rogue. In this album, Seabrook seems motivated by a desire to explore the liminal spaces between structured chaos and ...

Currying in JavaScript involves transforming a function with multiple arguments into a series of functions, each taking one argument. This technique can be achieved using bind or closures. For example ...

Object is the root object of all prototypes in JavaScript. Aside from providing the foundation for the JavaScript object model, Object imparts important methods such as toString() and assign(). Every ...