Temporal localization is crucial for action video recognition.Since the manual annotations are expensive and time-consuming in videos,temporal localization with weak video-level labels is challenging but indispensable...Temporal localization is crucial for action video recognition.Since the manual annotations are expensive and time-consuming in videos,temporal localization with weak video-level labels is challenging but indispensable.In this paper,we propose a weakly-supervised temporal action localization approach in untrimmed videos.To settle this issue,we train the model based on the proxies of each action class.The proxies are used to measure the distances between action segments and different original action features.We use a proxy-based metric to cluster the same actions together and separate actions from backgrounds.Compared with state-of-the-art methods,our method achieved competitive results on the THUMOS14 and ActivityNet1.2 datasets.展开更多
The joint optimization problem of energy procurement and retail pricing for an electricity retailer is converted into separately determining the optimal procurement strategy and optimal pricing strategy,under the“pri...The joint optimization problem of energy procurement and retail pricing for an electricity retailer is converted into separately determining the optimal procurement strategy and optimal pricing strategy,under the“price-taker”assumption.The aggregate energy consumption of end use customers(EUCs)is predicted to solve for the optimal procurement strategy vis a long short-term memory(LSTM)-based supervised learning method.The optimal retail pricing problem is formulated as a Markov decision process(MDP),which can be solved by using deep reinforcement learning(DRL)algorithms.However,the performance of existing DRL approaches may deteriorate due to their insufficient ability to extract discriminative features from the time-series vectors in the environmental states.We propose a novel deep deterministic policy gradient(DDPG)network structure with a shared LSTM-based representation network that fully exploits the Actor’s and Critic’s losses.The designed shared representation network and the joint loss function can enhance the environment perception capability of the proposed approach and further improve the optimization performance,resulting in a more profitable pricing strategy.Numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.展开更多
Comprehensive Summary An asymmetric synthesis of dihydrospirotryprostatin B was achieved in 15 steps(8 purifications)from L-tryptophan.The main feature of our synthetic strategy is the efficient construction of spiroc...Comprehensive Summary An asymmetric synthesis of dihydrospirotryprostatin B was achieved in 15 steps(8 purifications)from L-tryptophan.The main feature of our synthetic strategy is the efficient construction of spirocyclic oxindole intermediate containing a chiral quaternary carbon center,involving the silica gel-mediated cyclization of tryptamine-ynamide and oxidation under neat conditions.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018AAA0100104 and 2018AAA0100100)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61702095)+1 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20211164,BK20190341,and BK20210002)the Big Data Computing Center of Southeast University.
文摘Temporal localization is crucial for action video recognition.Since the manual annotations are expensive and time-consuming in videos,temporal localization with weak video-level labels is challenging but indispensable.In this paper,we propose a weakly-supervised temporal action localization approach in untrimmed videos.To settle this issue,we train the model based on the proxies of each action class.The proxies are used to measure the distances between action segments and different original action features.We use a proxy-based metric to cluster the same actions together and separate actions from backgrounds.Compared with state-of-the-art methods,our method achieved competitive results on the THUMOS14 and ActivityNet1.2 datasets.
基金This work was supported in part by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20210002)National Key R&D Program of China(2018AAA0101504)。
文摘The joint optimization problem of energy procurement and retail pricing for an electricity retailer is converted into separately determining the optimal procurement strategy and optimal pricing strategy,under the“price-taker”assumption.The aggregate energy consumption of end use customers(EUCs)is predicted to solve for the optimal procurement strategy vis a long short-term memory(LSTM)-based supervised learning method.The optimal retail pricing problem is formulated as a Markov decision process(MDP),which can be solved by using deep reinforcement learning(DRL)algorithms.However,the performance of existing DRL approaches may deteriorate due to their insufficient ability to extract discriminative features from the time-series vectors in the environmental states.We propose a novel deep deterministic policy gradient(DDPG)network structure with a shared LSTM-based representation network that fully exploits the Actor’s and Critic’s losses.The designed shared representation network and the joint loss function can enhance the environment perception capability of the proposed approach and further improve the optimization performance,resulting in a more profitable pricing strategy.Numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22277082)Liaoning Province Education Administration of China(LJKQz2022236)+1 种基金Liaoning Provincial Foundation of Natural Science(2022-MS-245)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2022MD723807)for financial support.
文摘Comprehensive Summary An asymmetric synthesis of dihydrospirotryprostatin B was achieved in 15 steps(8 purifications)from L-tryptophan.The main feature of our synthetic strategy is the efficient construction of spirocyclic oxindole intermediate containing a chiral quaternary carbon center,involving the silica gel-mediated cyclization of tryptamine-ynamide and oxidation under neat conditions.