Basingstoke Gazette

Basingstoke library to be cut in size in 'secret' plans

BASINGSTOKE’S town centre library is being cut by almost a quarter and thousands of items of stock have been removed to make space for ...
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Use This Tool to Reduce Your Docker Images Size and Improve Performance

SlimToolkit helps shrink Docker images safely, keeping only required files to improve performance, speed, and storage efficiency.

How to quickly compress image files in Windows 11 before sharing

Windows 11 has received some new functions with one of the latest updates. One of these is a big upgrade to the "Share with" ...

X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and ...
IEEE

Diffusion Bridge: Leveraging Diffusion Model to Reduce the Modality Gap Between Text and Vision for Zero-Shot Image Captioning

Abstract: The modality gap between vision and text embeddings in CLIP presents a significant challenge for zero-shot image captioning, limiting effective cross-modal representation. Traditional ...
IEEE

Learning to Reduce Scale Differences for Large-Scale Invariant Image Matching

Abstract: Most image matching methods perform poorly when encountering large scale changes in images. To solve this problem, we propose a Scale-Difference-Aware Image Matching method (SDAIM) that ...