I’m sure that if we could go back to, say, 1990, and tell economists then that the national debt would be $31.4 trillion in 2023, (rather than the $4 trillion they owed then), many would refuse to believe us. Surely the sky would fall long before the debt reached that level. And...
Scientific Reports volume 13, Article number: 6346 (2023) Cite this article 3365 Accesses Metrics details Abstract Aiming at improving the performance of scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm during the registration of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, a new SIFT ...
And then it gets even a little creepier: A study has shown that birth rates increase the further that a woman has to drive to get an abortion, and that teen-age women (15-19) should be especially affected by this. (I suspect that’s because the younger ones can’t drive and the o...
This manual process, while time-consuming, is essential for creating a reliable reference set of keypoints and descriptors that can be used to guide the alignment and matching of test images. For the test images, a uniform distribution of keypoints and their descriptors is created. This ...