Abstract: Image captioning is an emerging field at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing (NLP). It has shown great potential to enhance accessibility by automatically ...

Abstract: Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has emerged as a widely used technology in various applications, including borehole microseismic monitoring, active source exploration, and ambient noise ...

So you want to go to space. How do you get there? Visionaries in early 1900s imagined flying into space before we had a way to get there. We are able to travel to space today thanks to these ...

For centuries, nature has quietly outperformed human engineering. Octopuses and cuttlefish can vanish against coral, ripple their skin into spines, or flash patterns to communicate—sometimes all at ...

Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a ...