Maxim Zhiganov has been exploring different aspects of sound for many years—first in relation to his native Perm and then on a broader, global scale. In this interview for the HSE Young Scientists project, he talks about sound maps, the special issue of the journal Logos, and why it is important to make the familiar less clear and obvious.
Neural networks are no longer simple travel assistants; now they decide what to include on the route and what to skip. Artificial intelligence changes how people perceive a place and shapes the image of tourist centres. At the II International Scientific and Practical Conference ’Information Technologies in the Preservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage,’ researchers discussed who controls algorithmic solutions and in what ways, and whether authentic traditions get lost in them.
Worldwide, road injuries are the leading cause of death among males aged 10–39. An international team of researchers reached this conclusion as part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023, analysing data from 204 countries between 1990 and 2023. Their findings have been published in The Lancet Public Health, with HSE University Professor Vasily Vlassov listed among the collaborators.
Kirill Muravyev, Melekhin A., Yudin D. et al., IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2025 Vol. 10 No. 4 P. 3126–3133
Mapping is one of the crucial tasks enabling autonomous navigation of a mobile robot. Conventional mapping methods output a dense geometric map representation, e.g. an occupancy grid, which is not trivial to keep consistent for prolonged runs covering large environments. Meanwhile, capturing the topological structure of the workspace enables fast path planning, is typically less ...
Mingachev E., Lavrenov R., Magid E. et al., , in: Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics “Zavalishin's Readings” (2020).: Springer, 2020. Ch. 28 P. 343–351.
Stable and robust path planning and movement in ground mobile robots require a combination of accuracy and low latency in their state estimation. However, state estimation algorithms must provide these qualities under the computational and power constraints of embedded hardware. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are the best choices for state estimation in these ...