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New algorithm improves speed and accuracy of pedestrian detection; cascade detection + deep learning

Green Car Congress

In the first stages, the algorithm quickly identifies and discards windows that it can easily recognize as not containing a person (such as the sky). The work, titled “Learning Complexity-Aware Cascades for Deep Pedestrian Detection,” was presented 15 December 2015 at the International Conference on Computer Vision in Santiago, Chile.

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Gulf oil giants Saudi Aramco, Adnoc set sights on lithium – ET Auto

Baua Electric

An advantage of filtering the ultralight battery metal from salt water is that it avoids the need for costly and environmentally challenging open pit mines or large evaporation ponds, as employed in the world’s leading producers Australia and Chile.

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A Serial Entrepreneur Shares Lessons Learned on His Road to Success

Cars That Think

As an active volunteer with the IEEE Kerala (India) Section , he spoke at numerous conferences and meetings. The startup’s B2B platform used a combination of human and chatbot conversations to personalize a customer’s purchasing experience with a retailer. After the company was acquired, the platform was renamed ZoomInfo Chat.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Can EVs be good enough—and can manufacturers roll them out fast enough—to meet the goals set in 2021 by the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)? We should also shift from using cars, which often have just one person inside, to less energy-intensive modes of travel, such as public transit.