IEEE

LiquidGAN: Integrating Liquid Neural Networks and Neural ODEs for High-Fidelity Thermal Image Synthesis Under Data Scarcity

Abstract: The growing importance of thermal imaging in a variety of fields, including medical diagnostics, security, and environmental monitoring, emphasizes the critical need for efficient deep ...

The best AI chatbots of 2026: I tested ChatGPT, Copilot, and others to find the top tools around

I pushed eight free AI chatbots to their limits to find the best AI chatbots of 2026. To explore our top picks, check out ZDNET's chatbot-by-chatbot guide.

Most RAG systems don’t understand sophisticated documents — they shred them

Standard RAG pipelines treat documents as flat strings of text. They use "fixed-size chunking" (cutting a document every 500 ...
IEEE

Quality Assessment for Text-to-Image Generation: A Survey

Abstract: In recent years, there have been notable advancements in text-to-image generation facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Text-to-image generation requires higher-level ...
GitHub

Baloon is a command-line tool and Python library for converting between geospatial vector formats. Convert BLN, Shapefile, GeoJSON, KML, GeoPackage, and SVG files quickly and ...

The output path must be a directory; it will be created if it does not exist. Input formats are auto-detected per file. Unsupported formats and write-only inputs (e.g., SVG) are skipped with a warning ...