Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support

When the companies disabled HEVC support built into the CPUs of select PCs, it raised uncomfortable questions: Why remove a ...
Psychology Today

This May Be Low-Key the Hardest Time to Decode Slang

We don't need to keep up with our kids' changing lingo. Listening to the concerns, emotions, and desires that underlie the ...
eLife

Modality-agnostic decoding of vision and language from fMRI

Modality-agnostic decoders leverage modality-invariant representations in human subjects' brain activity to predict stimuli irrespective of their modality (image, text, mental imagery).
InfoQ

Google’s TurboQuant Compression May Support Faster Inference, Same Accuracy on Less Capable Hardware

Google Research unveiled TurboQuant, a novel quantization algorithm that compresses large language models’ Key-Value caches ...
eLife

Beyond the Focus of Expansion: Retinal curl as a functional signal for heading estimation

This study provides an important and biologically plausible account of how human perceptual judgments of heading direction are influenced by a specific pattern of motion in optic flow fields known as ...

How Intel Got Into Trouble: We Test the Last Decade of Intel Flagship CPUs

From Kaby Lake to Core Ultra, we revisit Intel's flagship CPUs to see how a decade of design choices shaped performance, ...
IEEE

Adaptive Sliding Window Decoding of Spatially Coupled Low-Density Parity-Check Codes: Algorithms and Energy Efficient Implementations

Abstract: In channel coding, reducing power consumption and improving energy efficiency are major challenges in sliding window decoding (SWD) architectures for spatially coupled low-density ...
IEEE

PH-Mamba: Enhancing Mamba With Position Encoding and Harmonized Attention for Image Deraining and Beyond

Abstract: Mamba and its variants excel at modeling long-range dependencies with linear computational complexity, making them effective for diverse vision tasks. However, Mamba’s reliance on unfolding ...