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Drone-mounted camera can detect plastic landmines without an internet connection

Today's antipersonnel land mines are small and often have plastic casings that standard metal detectors cannot register.
Popular Mechanics

Over 9,000 Unidentified Objects Have Been Spotted Near U.S. Coastlines. Are Underwater UFOs a Real Threat?

Since August 2025, a UFO-reporting app has recorded more than 9,000 sightings of mysterious unidentified objects close to U.S. coastlines and major bodies of water, according to Marine Technology News ...
IEEE

Real-Time Oriented Object Detection Transformer in Remote Sensing Images

Abstract: Recent real-time detection transformers (DETRs) have gained popularity due to their simplicity and efficiency. However, these detectors do not explicitly model object rotation, especially in ...
GitHub

OV-DEIM: Real-time DETR-Style Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with GridSynthetic Augmentation

OV-DEIM is a real-time DETR-style framework for open-vocabulary object detection. It extends DEIMv2 to the open-vocabulary setting and achieves state-of-the-art performance on open-vocabulary ...
IEEE

Efficient Detection of Objects Near a Robot Manipulator via Miniature Time-of-Flight Sensors

Abstract: We provide a method for detecting and localizing objects near a robot arm using arm-mounted miniature time-of-flight sensors. A key challenge when using arm-mounted sensors is ...
GitHub

Real-Time Object Detection and Counting from Video Streams

This project builds a complete real-time object detection pipeline for video streams using pretrained YOLOv8 models. The system detects and counts objects frame by frame, benchmarks latency and memory ...