Abstract: 3D keypoint detection is of great interest to researchers in computer vision and graphics because it is an integral part of realizing many tasks, such as object tracking, 3D reconstruction, ...

What if you could create intricate, professional-grade 3D printable designs without years of sculpting experience or expensive software? It might sound too good to be true, but AI is transforming 3D ...

These 3D-printed skulls are made with PLA (Polylactic acid) filament. Shawn Sanchez and Dan Smith. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

Necrobotics is a field of engineering that builds robots out of a mix of synthetic materials and animal body parts. It has produced micro-grippers with pneumatically operated legs taken from dead ...

Earlier this month, we checked the specifications and did an unboxing of the Sermoon S1 high-end 3D scanner with support for blue laser and infrared scanning. I had some concerns about my host ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today's physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D sketches into 3D models that they can then test and refine before sending ...

Abstract: Accurate 3D hand pose estimation is a challenging computer vision problem primarily because of self-occlusion and viewpoint variations. Existing methods address viewpoint variations by ...

Microsoft’s cross-platform .NET takes interesting dependencies, including a fork of Google’s Skia, now to be co-maintained with Uno Platform. The news that the .NET UI framework Uno Platform project ...

WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API that enables hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics directly in the browser via the HTML canvas. It powers tools like Google Maps, enables web-based ...

Retro tech is cool: The 3dfx Voodoo was a truly legendary achievement in 3D graphics. The chip brought practical 3D acceleration to PC gamers for the first time, and many still remember the technology ...

Researchers use laser light to form a tiny “optical pinhole” inside a nonlinear crystal, which also turns the infrared image into a visible image that a traditional silicon-based camera sensor can ...