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Notable links: April 3, 2026

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IEEE

GPA-Net:No-Reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment With Multi-Task Graph Convolutional Network

Abstract: With the rapid development of 3D vision, point cloud has become an increasingly popular 3D visual media content. Due to the irregular structure, point cloud has posed novel challenges to the ...
IEEE

An On-Chip Fully Connected Neural Network Training Hardware Accelerator Based on Brain Float Point and Sparsity Awareness

Abstract: In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have brought revolutionary progress in various fields with the advent of technology. It is widely used in image pre-processing, image enhancement ...
IEEE

Affective Brain–Computer Interfaces (aBCIs): A Tutorial

Abstract: A brain–computer interface (BCI) enables a user to communicate directly with a computer using only the central nervous system. An affective BCI (aBCI) monitors and/or regulates the emotional ...
IEEE

DeepBHMR: Learning Bidirectional Hybrid Mixture Models for Generalized Global Rigid Point Set Registration in Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery

Abstract: This paper presents a novel robust and accurate normal-assisted learning-based rigid point set registration approach, i.e., Deep Bi-directional Hybrid Mixture Registration (DeepBHMR), where ...
IEEE

Multispectral Point Cloud Classification Network Based on Multilateral Attention

Abstract: Multispectral point clouds have been increasingly applied in land cover classification. Although a variety of successful networks have been devised, they all extract local spectral-spatial ...
IEEE

LighTN: Light-Weight Transformer Network for Performance-Overhead Tradeoff in Point Cloud Downsampling

Abstract: Downsampling is a crucial task for processing large scale and/or dense point clouds with limited resources. Owing to the development of deep learning, approaches of task-oriented point cloud ...
IEEE

Exploring UAV Networking From the Terrain Information Completeness Perspective: A Tutorial

Abstract: Terrain information is a crucial factor affecting the performance of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. As a tutorial, this article provides a unique perspective on the completeness of ...
IEEE

Multiprototype Relational Network for Few-Shot ALS Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation by Transferring Knowledge From Photogrammetric Point Clouds

Abstract: Existing airborne laser scanning (ALS) point cloud semantic segmentation approaches are limited by their overreliances on sufficient point-wise annotations that further confine their ...
Computer Weekly

Linx upgrades Lunar Digital datacentre to full resilient point of presence

The London Internet Exchange (Linx) is set to upgrade its point of presence (PoP) at the Lunar Digital datacentre in Manchester. Over 15 years ago, the then UK government established the Northern ...