Built to endure the unthinkable, the Soviet Object 279 was designed to survive the shockwave, heat and radiation of a nuclear battlefield. With its four tracks and saucer-shaped hull, this Cold War ...

US star Mikaela Shiffrin, the most successful World Cup skier in history, cemented her Olympic legacy on Wednesday when she won the women's slalom, her third title in her fourth Winter Games. Already ...

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Abstract: With the development of deep learning in recent years, the performance of object detection under conventional cameras has been significantly improved. Nevertheless, due to the distortion ...

Abstract: Cross-view geolocalization determines the location of a query image, captured by a drone or ground-based camera, by matching it to a georeferenced satellite image. While traditional ...

In the shadow of the first nuclear explosion in 1945, engineers on both sides of the Cold War raced to create tanks that could survive and even harness atomic power. America’s Chrysler TV-8 and the ...

From massive stone edifices like the pyramids in Egypt and the Great Wall in China to the high-tech (and incredibly expensive) International Space Station zipping overhead in low-Earth orbit, humanity ...