Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...
The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at least fifteen tightly documented geometric and astronomical puzzles embedded ...
Archaeologists working in a tunnel beneath Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun have unearthed two caches of artifacts that may have been meant to consecrate the massive building's construction around a.d ...
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...
U.S. News Insider Tip: Random people will most likely offer to photos of you "for free"–don't fall for it! It's a common scam. After taking lots of – often really bad – pictures, they'll pressure you ...
Abstract: We propose a cost volume-based neural network for depth inference from multi-view images. We demonstrate that building a cost volume pyramid in a coarse-to-fine manner instead of ...
Abstract: Small object is one of the primary challenges in the field of object detection, which is notably pronounced to the detection in the images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Existing ...
The ancient and far-reaching history of Europe is often veiled in mists of mystery. Enigmatic peoples, diverse cultures, and strange legends are all left in the past, with not a lot left behind them ...
Zahira, the short-lived administrative capital built by Almanzor in the late 10th century as a symbol of his power and a ...
The mystery of how the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt were built continues to elude scholars, even in the 21 st century. As famed Egyptologist Flinders Petrie records in his The Pyramids and Temples of ...
Some standard modules for making 3d shapes with attachment support, and function forms that produce a VNF. Also included are shortcuts cylinders in each orientation and extended versions of the ...
Volume Segmantics provides a simple command-line interface and API that allows researchers to quickly train a variety of 2D PyTorch segmentation models (e.g. U-Net, U-Net++, FPN, DeepLabV3+) on their ...