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Engineers 3D-print flat sheets that transform into curved satellite structures in space

A team led by aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor Jeff Baur has developed a low-energy, scalable technique that ...
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Morphing 3D-printed structures from flat to curved, in space

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new method to 3D-print flat composite structures ...
IEEE

3D Point Cloud Pre-Training with Knowledge Distilled from 2D Images

Abstract: The success of pre-trained 2D vision models can largely be attributed to their ability to learn from large-scale datasets. However, compared with 2D image datasets, current pre-training data ...
IEEE

Efficient 3D Scene Semantic Segmentation via Active Learning on Rendered 2D Images

Abstract: Inspired by Active Learning and 2D-3D semantic fusion, we proposed a novel framework for 3D scene semantic segmentation based on rendered 2D images, which could efficiently achieve semantic ...