Digital Production

Katana 9 deepens USD and previews Hydra 2

Katana 9 with UsdSuperLayer brings native USD editing and Hydra 2 viewer support to Foundry Katana for lighting pipelines.
MIT Technology Review

This is the most misunderstood graph in AI

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.
GitHub

This is a simple example of how to deploy an Azure Function using ZipDeploy. This is a very simple way to deploy an Azure Function without having to use a full CI/CD pipeline.

To learn more about how the template was done refer to the blog post on How to Deploy a .NET isolated Azure Function using Zip Deploy in One-Click on frankysnotes.com. There is also a video on YouTube ...
IEEE

G3Reg: Pyramid Graph-Based Global Registration Using Gaussian Ellipsoid Model

Abstract: This study introduces a novel framework, G3Reg, for fast and robust global registration of LiDAR point clouds. In contrast to conventional complex keypoints and descriptors, we extract ...
IEEE

Constraints and Variables Reduction for Optimal Power Flow Using Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks with Virtual Node-Splitting

Abstract: Power system networks are often modeled as homogeneous graphs, which limits the ability of graph neural network (GNN) to capture individual generator features at the same nodes. By ...