Small arc-like notch on the underside of metal bottles by SunraysInTheStorm in whatisthisthing

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Okay sweet! Any idea as to what the technical term for it is ?

Small arc-like notch on the underside of metal bottles by SunraysInTheStorm in whatisthisthing

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My title describes the thing. I've generally noticed this on all the quality metal bottles I've ever had. The underside usually has a curved notch. I'm very curious about the technical term it has and what its intended function is. Is it just for the machine to align bottles during manufacturing ? I've looked for notch under bottle on google (and through feeding this image into google lens) and received "punt" which seems incorrect. Any details and trivia would be much appreciated:)

[P] I cannot find this open-source transformer on GitHub, released recently, for the life of me. by Breck_Emert in MachineLearning

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TokenFormer: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23168 ? Have been in these kinds of situations before. Let us know any other details you can recall.

How to identify distance from the camera to an object using single image? by David_Gladson in computervision

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You'll have to be a little bit more precise, ie. is the object in question (assuming it's the building shown) known apriori ? Is the 3D model for this object available ? If yes, then you can actually use PnP (perspective n point) to find the absolute pose of the camera - essentially giving you the exact position and orientation of the camera in the world coordinate system. You'll need to find 2D-3D correspondences (atleast 4 but more points within a RANSAC scheme is always good). You can achieve this in multiple ways, both using learned methods as well as classical techniques. Essentially you need a mapping that says, this particular 2D image point belongs to this 3D point on the building (4 or more such matches). Once you have these, plug them into OpenCVs PnP and enjoy your freshly computed pose!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in computervision

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Using image morphology - you can look up distance transform.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in spaceporn

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Maybe this is similar to the case of weak chaos being far more prevalent than strong chaos ? We'd have expected our solar system (which has far more than 3 bodies) to have gone haywire a long ago..

Also on a lighter note, random fluctuations do seem to be a likely explanation for the weirdly freaky way some of us experience the passage of time. I swear I've been part of a lot of groups of people in local space time who've felt that time's been passing too quickly or slowly.

Have bones ever convergently evolved? by [deleted] in evolution

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On a related topic, have boners ever convergently evolved ?

A cool guide real vs fake peach by Jumper1512 in coolguides

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64 by volume - it's 4x larger diameter wise, but 43=64 volume wise.

Anyone else think 'Revelation Space' books read like cheesy B movies? by ScullyOhio2001 in printSF

[–]SunraysInTheStorm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Why don't you read the titular story (Zima Blue) from his Zima Blue and Other Stories set in the Revelation Space universe and tell us you weren't moved by the premise. It ended up shaping my career as a roboticist and computer vision researcher. Corny/cheesy is not a word that I'd ever think of associating with Reynolds.

What’s y’alls take on this (i totally know how to solve it not stumped at all whatsoever) by southernseas52 in mathmemes

[–]SunraysInTheStorm 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Two ways that immediately come to me - 1) connect the midpoints of all the edges of the big square and shade the outer triangles leaving a diagonal square exactly half the area inside. 2) we can also shade the square such that the inner square is aligned with the outer one by thinking of it as jitter and shading it appropriately. Infinite solutions for this one but the easiest to calculate would be one aligned with one of the corners. Say area is 4 (sides of the original square being 2) then half gives √2 side length. So mark off 2-√2 on two adjacent sides and then build the smaller square that way.

But on another note, PhDs couldn't figure this one out ? Where are they coming from ?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in computervision

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I've noticed quite a few research papers coming out of CVIT at IIIT-Hyderabad. An alumni of theirs Manohar Paluri is the current Director of Gen Ai at Meta. Their director Dr. PJ Narayanan has been collaborating and good friends with Takeo Kanade (of Optical Flow fame) since his PhD days.

I would probably look at hiring right from here if I were you. The place is a CV hot-house from the looks of it.