🌐Weekly News Digest [ February 9 – February 15 ]
Last week, the mining conference in Cape Town became the first high-level venue to criticize American expansion into Africa - but what else happened?
💡Here are the key highlights:
🇨🇩 DR Congo
— South Africa’s Minister of Resources sharply criticizes his Congolese counterpart
— Washington urged an Australian mining firm AVZ to sell its major lithium project to a US company
🇱🇾 Libya
— Libya’s fails its first oil license auction in 17 years
🇲🇱 Mali
— The Malian government establishes a new state-owned mining company
— Mali approves a 10-year extension of Canadian gold miner's license
🇳🇪 Niger
— Niger’s military repels an attack by MPLJ militants on Chinese oil facilities
— Niger is ready to return the uranium confiscated from the French
🇳🇬 Nigeria
— Nigerian company loses asset in Equatorial Guinea
— Dangote Refinery reaches its design capacity for the first time
— US lawmakers introduce a bill claiming that Chinese illegal miners are paying Fulani militant groups
🇿🇦 South Africa
— Mining Indaba Conference concludes in Cape Town
🌍 Global
— State Department reveals the US strategy for Africa
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🌟WildDet3D: открытая модель монокулярной 3D-детекции по одному снимку.
Институт Аллена представил модель WildDet3D, которая по одному изображению строит 3D-рамки объектов: оценивает их положение, размер и ориентацию в метрических координатах.
Модель принимает сразу несколько типов промптов: текстовый запрос, клик по точке или готовый 2D-бокс от внешнего детектора.
🟡Архитектура состоит из 3 блоков
2D-детектор построен на SAM3 и обрабатывает все типы запросов.
Геометрическая ветка использует энкодер DINOv2 с обучаемым декодером глубины, учитывающим геометрию обзора: направления лучей камеры зашиваются через сферические гармоники, что снимает необходимость в отдельной калибровке.
Третий компонент, 3D-head, объединяет через кросс-внимание 2D-детекции с признаками глубины и поднимает их в полноценные 3D-боксы.
Если на инференсе доступны данные с LiDAR, ToF или стереокамеры, они подмешиваются в ту же геометрическую ветку без переобучения.
🟡Тесты
На бенчмарке Omni3D модель показывает 34,2 AP с текстовыми промптами (это +5,8 пункта к прежнему лидеру 3D-MOOD).
На zero-shot переносе на Argoverse 2 WildDet3D практически удваивает прежний результат: 40,3 ODS против 23,8.
На редких категориях из собственного бенчмарка WildDet3D-Bench успехи, разумеется, еще лучше - 47,4 AP против 2,4 у 3D-MOOD.
🟡Вместе с моделью вышло демо-приложение для iOS.
Оно использует видеопоток с камеры iPhone и данные LiDAR-сенсора, чтобы в реальном времени отрисовывать 3D-боксы поверх сцены как AR-оверлей.
Это наглядная демонстрация того, как монокулярная модель усиливается, когда устройство умеет отдавать дополнительный сигнал глубины.
🟡Третья часть релиза - датасет WildDet3D-Data.
Более 1 млн. изображений и 3,7 млн. верифицированных 3D-аннотаций, охватывающих свыше 13 тыс. категорий объектов. По сценам распределение получилось такое: 52% помещений, 32% городской среды и 15% природы.
Он собран на основе 2D-наборов (COCO, LVIS, Objects365, V3Det): кандидаты в 3D-боксы генерировались 5 независимыми методами оценки геометрии, затем фильтровались, проверялись VLM и дополнительно отбирались людьми.
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A comprehensive #WiFi probe request analyzer that monitors and tracks wireless devices by analyzing their probe requests. The system integrates with #Kismet for packet capture and WiGLE API for #SSID#geolocation analysis, featuring advanced #surveillance#detection capabilities.
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Spectacular KML visualization for Google Earth with professional styling and interactive content
Multi-format reporting - Markdown, HTML (with pandoc), and KML outputs
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Multi-location tracking algorithms for detecting following behavior
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Comprehensive logging and analysis tools
Requirements
Python 3.6+
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Wall Street banks have begun internal testing of Anthropic's Mythos model, as reported by Bloomberg on X. The initiative comes amid encouragement from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration officials, who are advocating for its use in identifying potential vulnerabilities. The Mythos model, developed by Anthropic, is designed to enhance security measures within financial institutions by leveraging advanced AI capabilities. This move reflects a growing trend among major banks to integrate cutting-edge technology to bolster their defenses against emerging threats.
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