Considerable progress has recently been made in leveraging CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) models for text-guided image manipulation. However, all existing works rely on additional generative to ensure the quality of results, because alone cannot provide enough guidance information fine-scale pixel-level changes. In this paper, we introduce CLIPVG, a manipulation framework using ...

The dynamic response of magnetic order to optical excitation at sub-picosecond scale has offered an intriguing alternative for magnetism manipulation. Such ultrafast manipulation become a fundamental challenging topic with high implications future spintronics. Here, this study demonstrates such in Co2FeSi films grown on flexible polyimide substrate, and how the magneto-optical interaction can b...

Wild chimpanzees select tools according to their rigidity. However, little is known about whether choices are solely based on familiarity with the materials or knowledge about tool properties. Furthermore, it is unclear whether tool manipulation is required prior to selection or whether observation alone can suffice. We investigated whether chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (n = 9), bonobos (Pan pa...

every discourse, written or oral, is the conveyer of some hidden agenda of the producer, most importantly in such genres of speech as journalism, politics, propaganda, and advertisements. given the role of translation in discourse, a difference exists between when the translator carries the ideological values of the elite in contrast with one with patriotic preferences. in this study a comparis...

Electronic Skin In article number 2109109, Zhuo Li, Hao Wu, and co-workers adopt flexible mechanical metamaterials to enhance the performance of E-skin strain sensors. Based on tactile perception data from sensors, a generic approach for real-time detection unstable robotic grasping is proposed. Accurate detections in demonstrate great promise sensors dexterous manipulation.

ÐWe have developed a flexible software environment called ADVIZOR for visual information discovery. ADVIZOR complements existing assumptive-based analyses by providing a discovery-based approach. ADVIZOR consists of five parts: a rich set of flexible visual components, strategies for arranging the components for particular analyses, an in-memory data pool, data manipulation components, and cont...

Aerodynamically focused nanoparticle (AFN) printing was demonstrated for direct patterning of the solvent-free and inorganic nanoparticles. The fast excitation-purge control technique was proposed and investigated by examining the aerodynamic focusing of nanoparticles and their time-scale, with the analytical and experimental approaches. A series of direct patterning examples were demonstrated ...

In this paper, we describe an integrated strategy for planning, perception, state-estimation and action in complex mobile manipulation domains. The strategy is based on planning in the belief space of probability distribution over states. Our planning approach is based on hierarchical goal regression (pre-image back-chaining). We develop a vocabulary of fluents that describe sets of belief stat...