A new crowdsourcing system, FireLoc, uses a network of low-cost mobile phones to detect wildfires minutes—even seconds—after they ignite. The system prioritizes privacy and accurately maps wilderness fires to within 180 feet of their origin.
SourceUniversity of Southern California·DateNov 7, 2024
Researchers develop an algorithm for image stitching that minimizes seam artifacts by smoothing the transition between images, producing visually appealing results. The approach is based on minimizing an energy function and can be used for both two-dimensional and future three-dimensional image stitching applications.
SourceSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics·JournalSIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences·DateOct 2, 2013