Proof of visual perception's fundamental mechanisms: 1981 Nobel Prize-winning model confirmed correct

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled.

Halide electrolytes power the next generation of batteries

Solid-state lithium batteries are widely regarded as the future of safe and high-energy energy storage systems, yet their development depends critically on advanced electrolyte materials. Recent ...
VentureBeat

NYU’s new AI architecture makes high-quality image generation faster and cheaper

Researchers at New York University have developed a new architecture for diffusion models that improves the semantic representation of the images they generate. “Diffusion Transformer with ...
Digital Trends

Microsoft AI debuts its Nano Banana rival, and it’s already a top text-to-image model

What’s happened? Microsoft AI has unveiled the slightly clunkily named MAI-Image-1, its in-house text-to-image system. The pitch is straightforward, generate useful pictures quickly, not flashy demos ...
C&EN

Deep Learning-Based Shape Classification for Hyperspectral-Imaged Microplastics

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. Figure 1 illustrates the overall workflow of the hyperspectral ...
IEEE

Scattering Mechanism Inspired Non-Gaussian Diffusion Model for Polarimetric SAR Image Classification

Abstract: The diffusion model has achieved excellent performance in natural image processing, which can learn the noise distribution through the degradation and restoration processes. However, the ...
IEEE

Self-Supervised Learning of Contrast-Diffusion Models for Land Cover Classification in SAR Images

Abstract: Deep learning (DL) methods have been widely applied to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) land cover classification. The complexity of SAR data and the limited availability of labeled samples ...