Month: December 2025

Optimizing Video Matting: Curriculum Learning and Motion Blur Augmentation

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works MaGGIe 3.1. Efficient Masked Guided Instance Matting 3.2. Feature-Matte Temporal Consistency Instance Matting Datasets 4.1. Image Instance Matting and 4.2. Video Instance Matting Experiments 5.1. Pre-training on image data 5.2. Training on video data Discussion and References Supplementary Material Architecture details Image matting 8.1. Dataset generation … Read more

Frozen Waymos backed up San Francisco traffic during a widespread power outage

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Waymo driverless car is not able to detect traffic lights after a major power outage in San Francisco, California, | Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images A power outage struck San Francisco on Saturday that blacked out about 130,000 customers at its peak, according to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, but also caused another … Read more

The Biggest AI Bottleneck Is in Your Head

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Prelude The sky is falling. Or so my LinkedIn feed tells me. Every day brings a new prophecy. The end of the programmer. The obsolescence of the Product Manager. The death of the creative. We are told that we are standing on the precipice of a jobless future where an algorithmic god writes our code, … Read more

Building a Decentralized Event Ticketing System Web3 with Symfony 7.4

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The intersection of Web3 and traditional web frameworks is where real-world utility begins. While hype cycles come and go, the utility of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) for verifying ownership — specifically in event ticketing — remains a solid use case. In this article, we will build the backbone of a Decentralized Event Ticketing System using Symfony 7.4 and PHP 8.3. … Read more