Abstract: Establishing the correspondences between newly acquired points and historically accumulated data (i.e., the map) through nearest neighbor search is crucial in numerous robotic applications.

As holiday lovers start strategizing their Christmas tree decor, there’s a renewed debate over a real or fake spruce. This year, experts are advising that those who prefer artificial Christas trees ...

You were taught that your skin defines where you end and the world begin. That’s a lie. Every outbreath leaves your body, enters a leaf, becomes energy, and returns as oxygen. The line between you and ...

Abstract: Index access is one of the dominant performance factors in transactional database systems. Many systems use a B+tree or one of its variants to handle point and range operations. This access ...

Now that Halloween is out of the way and November has come, thoughts quickly turn to the fast-approaching festive season and for some, the wait is too much to bear. Supermarkets are already lined with ...