James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

Assembling furniture amounts to solving the discrete-continuous optimization task of selecting the furniture parts to assemble and estimating their connecting poses in a physically realistic manner.

Abstract: PET image quality can be significantly affected by respiratory motion artifacts. To improve image quality, surveillance systems have been developed to track the movements of the subject ...

Abstract: Various sensors, including lasers, are used for 3D reconstruction. 3D lasers are expensive and have limitations in their use. This paper describes an approach to joint calibration of 2D ...