The expanding availability of high-resolution 3D point clouds from lidar and photogrammetry has fostered interest in digital twin forests ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Salvation Army Austin is looking for volunteers this week to sort thousands of gifts for its annual Angel Tree program. Each year, low-income families provide a wish list to the ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Computer vision systems combined with machine learning techniques have demonstrated success as alternatives to empirical methods for classification and selection. This study aimed to classify tomatoes ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Trees compete for space as they grow. A tree with branches close to a wall will develop differently from one growing on open ground. Now everyone from urban planners and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio is having its lowest mountain cedar season ever. The season usually runs about 45 to 60 days, from Dec. 1 to about Valentine’s Day. According to Shannon Syring, a certified ...

In this course students will implement and test advanced data structures and algorithms, benchmark performance, analyze algorithmic complexity, explore trade offs in performance and memory usage, and ...

An innovative algorithm called Spectral Expansion Tree Search helps autonomous robotic systems make optimal choices on the move. In 2018, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero program taught itself the games of ...