The University of Michigan (U-M), founded in 1817, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the oldest institution of higher education in the state. It is a highly regarded institution known for its comprehensive academic offerings and significant research contributions. NEC Labs America and the University of Michigan partner on machine learning theory and applications in secure communication. Our collaborative work includes robustness in AI systems, secure federated learning frameworks, and novel optimization strategies for wireless environments. Please read about our latest news and collaborative publications with the University of Michigan.

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Top 10 Most Legendary College Pranks of All-Time for April Fools’ Day

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At NEC Labs America, we celebrate innovation in all forms—even the brilliantly engineered college prank. From MIT’s police car on the Great Dome to Caltech hacking the Rose Bowl, these legendary stunts showcase next-level planning, stealth, and technical genius. Our Top 10 list honors the creativity behind pranks that made history (and headlines). This April Fools’ Day, we salute the hackers, makers, and mischief-makers who prove that brilliance can be hilarious.

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A Continuous Occlusion Model for Road Scene Understanding

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We present a physically interpretable 3D model for handling occlusions with applications to road scene understanding. Given object detection and SFM point tracks, our unified model probabilistically assigns point tracks to objects and reasons about object detection scores and bounding boxes. It uniformly handles static and dynamic objects, thus outperforming motion segmentation for association problems. It also demonstrates occlusion-aware 3D localization in road scenes.

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