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- Machine learning methods for electroencephalogram-based age prediction
- Evaluation of key spatiotemporal learners for print track anomaly classification using melt pool image streams
- Transferability analysis of data-driven additive manufacturing knowledge: a case study between powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition
- Building a robot to identify electric vehicles from infrared images
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