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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 ...
Tech Xplore

Morphing 3D-printed structures from flat to curved—in space

Because it's costly and cumbersome to transport large structures such as satellite dishes into space, aerospace Ph.D. student ...
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 ...