Holevo bound independent of weight matrices for estimating two parameters of a qubit

Holevo bound plays an important role in quantum metrology as it sets the ultimate limit for multi-parameter estimations,which can be asymptotically achieved.Except for some trivial cases,the Holevo bound is implicitly defined and formulated with the help of weight matrices.Here we report the first instance of an intrinsic Holevo bound,namely,without any reference to weight matrices,in a nontrivial case.Specifically,we prove that the Holevo bound for estimating two parameters of a qubit is equivalent to the joint constraint imposed by two quantum Cramér–Rao bounds corresponding to symmetric and right logarithmic derivatives.This weightless form of Holevo bound enables us to determine the precise range of independent entries of the mean-square error matrix,i.e.,two variances and one covariance that quantify the precisions of the estimation,as illustrated by different estimation models.Our result sheds some new light on the relations between the Holevo bound and quantum Cramer–Rao bounds.Possible generalizations are discussed.

Estimating wheat spike-leaf composite indicator(SLI)dynamics by coupling spectral indices and machine learning

The contribution of spike photosynthesis to grain yield(GY)has been overlooked in the accurate spectral prediction of yield.Thus,it’s essential to construct and estimate a yield-related phenotypic trait considering spike photosynthesis.Based on field and spectral reflectance data from 19 wheat cultivars under two nitrogen fertilization conditions in two years,our objectives were to(i)construct a yield-related phenotypic trait(spike–leaf composite indicator,SLI)accounting for the contribution of the spike to photosynthesis,(ii)develop a novel spectral index(enhanced triangle vegetation index,ETVI3)sensitive to SLI,and(iii)establish and evaluate SLI estimation models by integrating spectral indices and machine learning algorithms.The results showed that SLI was sensitive to nitrogen fertilizer and wheat cultivar variation as well as a better predictor of yield than the leaf area index.ETVI3 maintained a strong correlation with SLI throughout the growth stage,whereas the correlations of other spectral indices with SLI were poor after spike emergence.Integrating spectral indices and machine learning algorithms improved the estimation accuracy of SLI,with the most accurate estimates of SLI showing coefficient of determination,root mean square error(RMSE),and relative RMSE values of 0.71,0.047,and 26.93%,respectively.These results provide new insights into the role of fruiting organs for the accurate spectral prediction of GY.This high-throughput SLI estimation approach can be applied for wheat yield prediction at whole growth stages and may be assisted with agronomical practices and variety selection.

Estimating the Input Power of a Power Plant Using the Efficiency of the Inverter

The study focuses on estimating the input power of a power plant from available data, using the theoretical inverter efficiency as the key parameter. The paper addresses the problem of missing data in power generation systems and proposes an approach based on the efficiency formula widely documented in the literature. In the absence of input data, this method makes it possible to estimate the plant’s input power using data extracted from the site, in particular that provided by the Ministry of the Environment. The importance of this study lies in the need to accurately determine the input power in order to assess the overall performance of the energy system.

Estimating the State of Health for Lithium-ion Batteries:A Particle Swarm Optimization-Assisted Deep Domain Adaptation Approach

The state of health(SOH)is a critical factor in evaluating the performance of the lithium-ion batteries(LIBs).Due to various end-user behaviors,the LIBs exhibit different degradation modes,which makes it challenging to estimate the SOHs in a personalized way.In this article,we present a novel particle swarm optimization-assisted deep domain adaptation(PSO-DDA)method to estimate the SOH of LIBs in a personalized manner,where a new domain adaptation strategy is put forward to reduce cross-domain distribution discrepancy.The standard PSO algorithm is exploited to automatically adjust the chosen hyperparameters of developed DDA-based method.The proposed PSODDA method is validated by extensive experiments on two LIB datasets with different battery chemistry materials,ambient temperatures and charge-discharge configurations.Experimental results indicate that the proposed PSO-DDA method surpasses the convolutional neural network-based method and the standard DDA-based method.The Py Torch implementation of the proposed PSO-DDA method is available at https://github.com/mxt0607/PSO-DDA.

A Comparison of Four Methods of Estimating the Scale Parameter for the Exponential Distribution

In this paper, the estimators of the scale parameter of the exponential distribution obtained by applying four methods, using complete data, are critically examined and compared. These methods are the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE), the Square-Error Loss Function (BSE), the Entropy Loss Function (BEN) and the Composite LINEX Loss Function (BCL). The performance of these four methods was compared based on three criteria: the Mean Square Error (MSE), the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), and the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). Using Monte Carlo simulation based on relevant samples, the comparisons in this study suggest that the Bayesian method is better than the maximum likelihood estimator with respect to the estimation of the parameter that offers the smallest values of MSE, AIC, and BIC. Confidence intervals were then assessed to test the performance of the methods by comparing the 95% CI and average lengths (AL) for all estimation methods, showing that the Bayesian methods still offer the best performance in terms of generating the smallest ALs.

Estimating Anthropometric Soft Biometrics:An Empirical Method

Following the success of soft biometrics over traditional biomet-rics,anthropometric soft biometrics are emerging as candidate features for recognition or retrieval using an image/video.Anthropometric soft biometrics uses a quantitative mode of annotation which is a relatively better method for annotation than qualitative annotations adopted by traditional biometrics.However,one of the most challenging tasks is to achieve a higher level of accuracy while estimating anthropometric soft biometrics using an image or video.The level of accuracy is usually affected by several contextual factors such as overlapping body components,an angle from the camera,and ambient conditions.Exploring and developing such a collection of anthropometric soft biometrics that are less sensitive to contextual factors and are relatively easy to estimate using an image or video is a potential research domain and it has a lot of value for improved recognition or retrieval.For this purpose,anthro-pometric soft biometrics,which are originally geometric measurements of the human body,can be computed with ease and higher accuracy using landmarks information from the human body.To this end,several key contributions are made in this paper;i)summarizing a range of human body pose estimation tools used to localize dozens of different multi-modality landmarks from the human body,ii)a critical evaluation of the usefulness of anthropometric soft biometrics in recognition or retrieval tasks using state of the art in the field,iii)an investigation on several benchmark human body anthropometric datasets and their usefulness for the evaluation of any anthropometric soft biometric system,and iv)finally,a novel bag of anthropometric soft biomet-rics containing a list of anthropometrics is presented those are practically possible to measure from an image or video.To the best of our knowledge,anthropometric soft biometrics are potential features for improved seamless recognition or retrieval in both constrained and unconstrained scenarios and they also minimize the approximation level of feature value estimation than traditional biometrics.In our opinion,anthropometric soft biometrics constitutes a practical approach for recognition using closed-circuit television(CCTV)or retrieval from the image dataset,while the bag of anthropometric soft biometrics presented contains a potential collection of biometric features which are less sensitive to contextual factors.

Performance of Bayesian Propensity Score Adjustment for Estimating Causal Effects in Small Clinical Trials

Propensity score (PS) adjustment can control confounding effects and reduce bias when estimating treatment effects in non-randomized trials or observational studies. PS methods are becoming increasingly used to estimate causal effects, including when the sample size is small compared to the number of confounders. With numerous confounders, quasi-complete separation can easily occur in logistic regression used for estimating the PS, but this has not been addressed. We focused on a Bayesian PS method to address the limitations of quasi-complete separation faced by small trials. Bayesian methods are useful because they estimate the PS and causal effects simultaneously while considering the uncertainty of the PS by modelling it as a latent variable. In this study, we conducted simulations to evaluate the performance of Bayesian simultaneous PS estimation by considering the specification of prior distributions for model comparison. We propose a method to improve predictive performance with discrete outcomes in small trials. We found that the specification of prior distributions assigned to logistic regression coefficients was more important in the second step than in the first step, even when there was a quasi-complete separation in the first step. Assigning Cauchy (0, 2.5) to coefficients improved the predictive performance for estimating causal effects and improving the balancing properties of the confounder.

基于轻型自限制注意力的结构光相位及深度估计混合网络

相位提取与深度估计是结构光三维测量中的重点环节,目前传统方法在结构光相位提取与深度估计方面存在效率不高、结果不够鲁棒等问题。为了提高深度学习结构光的重建效果,本文提出了一种基于轻型自限制注意力(Light Self-Limited-Attention,LSLA)的结构光相位及深度估计混合网络,即构建一种CNN-Transformer的混合模块,并将构建的混合模块放入U型架构中,实现CNN与Transformer的优势互补。将所提出的网络在结构光相位估计和结构光深度估计两个任务上进行实验,并和其他网络进行对比。实验结果表明:相比其他网络,本文所提出的网络在相位估计和深度估计的细节处理上更加精细,在结构光相位估计实验中,精度最高提升31%;在结构光深度估计实验中,精度最高提升26%。该方法提高了深度神经网络在结构光相位估计及深度估计的准确性。

Technique for Estimating the Cone Bearing Smoothing Parameters

Cone penetration testing (CPT) is an extensively utilized and cost effective tool for geotechnical site characterization. CPT consists of pushing at a constant rate an electronic cone into penetrable soils and recording the resistance to the cone tip (qc value). The measured qc values (after correction for the pore water pressure) are utilized to estimate soil type and associated soil properties based predominantly on empirical correlations. The most common cone tips have associated areas of 10 cm2 and 15 cm2. Investigators also utilized significantly larger cone tips (33 cm2 and 40 cm2) so that gravelly soils can be penetrated. Small cone tips (2 cm2 and 5 cm2) are utilized for shallow soil investigations. The cone tip resistance measured at a particular depth is affected by the values above and below the depth of interest which results in a smoothing or blurring of the true bearing values. Extensive work has been carried out in mathematically modelling the smoothing function which results in the blurred cone bearing measurements. This paper outlines a technique which facilitates estimating the dominant parameters of the cone smoothing function from processing real cone bearing data sets. This cone calibration technique is referred to as the so-called CPSPE algorithm. The mathematical details of the CPSPE algorithm are outlined in this paper along with the results from a challenging test bed simulation.

基于机器学习的成本法在专利价值评估中的应用研究--以“新能源汽车”为例

[目的/意义]构建基于机器学习的成本法专利价值评估方法,快速识别海量专利的实际成本,并预测其价值区间,在为专利价值评估提供新研究思路的同时,也为专利转移转化定价提供了参考借鉴。[方法/过程]通过Innography数据库与Incopat数据库下载“新能源汽车”领域多指标专利数据,提取专利成本影响因素与专利价值影响因素,并形成专利数据训练集与专利数据预测集;构建AutoGluon机器学习分类算法,将包含成本数据的Innography专利数据训练集导入模型进行训练,并将训练好的模型对Incopat专利数据预测集进行成本预测;最后使用成本法并结合本研究提出的专利价值指数对预测结果进行计算,估算其价格区间。[结果/结论]通过实证分析与结果验证可知,本研究构建的基于机器学习的成本法专利价值评估方法在预测专利价值区间中具备一定有效性,为促进专利价值评估研究深化及专利转移转化定价实践发展提供了参考。

锂离子电池健康状态估计及寿命预测研究进展综述

随着锂离子电池的应用越来越广泛,锂电池健康状态的精确估计和剩余寿命的实时预测对于锂电池系统的安全运行和降低运维成本具有重要意义。锂电池内部复杂的物理化学反应和外部复杂工作条件,使得实现精准的健康状态估计和寿命预测具有挑战性。该文综述近年来锂电池健康状态估计和剩余使用寿命预测方法的研究现状,分析基于物理/数学模型、数据驱动、模型法和数据驱动融合,以及多种数据驱动融合的锂电池健康状态估计方法的优缺点及适用条件,并对比分析不同数据驱动类型的锂电池寿命预测方法。指出锂电池健康状态估计及寿命预测尚存在的问题,并对未来研究方向进行展望,对完善锂电池健康状态估计和寿命预测算法理论体系、指导实际应用技术具有重要意义。

基于深度学习的二维人体姿态估计研究进展

人体姿态估计在人体行为识别、人机交互、体育运动分析等方面有着广泛的应用前景,是计算机视觉领域的一个研究热点。在最近的十年中,得益于深度学习技术,大量的研究工作极大地推动了人体姿态估计技术的发展,但由于受训练样本不足、人体姿态的多变性、遮挡、环境的复杂性等因素影响,人体姿态估计仍然面临着诸多的挑战。文中对近年来基于深度学习的2D人体姿态估计方法进行归纳和总结,着重分析一些有代表性的人体姿态估计方法的思路及工作原理,以便研究人员了解当前的研究现状、面临的挑战以及今后的研究方向,拓展研究思路。

草原生态价值的内涵、核算及评估

草原是我国面积最大的陆地生态系统,是具有重要生产、生态和生活功能的自然资源,是我国重要的绿色生态安全屏障,是传承草原文化的重要载体,是建设生态文明和美丽中国的重要基础。开展草原生态价值核算与评估有两个核心目标,一是为草原资源的合理定价、有效补偿、科学管理和可持续发展提供理论依据,即尝试将生态效益纳入经济社会发展决策,二是为草原生态保护和修复成效评价提供科学方法,即通过货币化改变和影响生态保护和修复的行为与决策。借鉴生态经济学和生态系统评估理论,将草原生态价值定义为由草原生态系统结构与功能决定的可直接向人类提供各种服务及惠益的价值化形式。结合草原生态学基础理论,综合参考生态系统服务价值、自然资本、生态系统生产总值,梳理构建草原生态价值评估指标体系,确定分项指标物质量估算与价值核算的空间计量方法,构建了评估框架,可评价草原生态价值高低及其时空动态变化。以内蒙古自治区呼伦贝尔市为例,开展草原生态系统支持、供给、调节、文化生态价值的核算和空间分异格局分析,以及不同行政区草原分项价值的横向对比评估,应用结果显示出指标综合全面、核算科学合理、评估方法灵活、能够反映时空分异特征等优势,进而展望了未来需要开展深入研究的几个方面。由此可见,草原生态系统作为“钱库”的重要性,决定了需要从草原生态价值角度进一步认识草原的功能与地位,切实加强草原的科学保护与合理利用。

基于地震P波初至2 s功率信息的高速铁路地震预警系统快速震级估算方法

震级估算是高速铁路地震预警系统的关键技术参数,更加快速、准确的震级估算模型能够更好地保障人民的生命财产安全。利用日本K-net强震动数据,建立基于地震P波到达后携带功率信息的地震动衰减模型并用于震级估算,并将本文算法与传统算法对比。结果表明,在1~5 s的时间窗下,模型的震级估算误差均明显小于传统的方法,且小震高估现象也明显改善;随着时窗长度的增加,模型的震级估算误差及标准差也逐渐降低,实现率也逐步提升,在1 s的时窗长度下,模型的单台震级估算实现率满足规范要求;对7级以下地震,模型的震级估算实现率可在地震P波到达1 s后满足规范要求;对7级以上地震,模型的震级估算实现率可以在地震P波到达2 s后满足规范要求。

煤岩气:概念、内涵与分类标准

近年来,准噶尔、鄂尔多斯等盆地深层煤岩储层中的天然气勘探开发取得重大突破。针对目前工业界和学术界对这种新类型非常规天然气表述不一致的现状,在前人研究的基础上定义了“煤岩气”概念,并系统对比剖析其赋存状态、运储形式、差异聚集和开发规律。在地质上,煤岩气不同于传统意义上的煤层气,具有游离气与吸附气并存、富含游离气,自生自储-微距运移并可有他源的聚集,煤岩割理裂缝发育、游离气差异富集等特点,埋深超过2000m的深层煤岩气具有“高压力、高温度、高含气、高饱和、高游离”的“5高”地质特征;在开发上,与页岩气、致密气特征相似,人工改善储层连通性后,无需排水降压,高势能游离气弹性驱动产出、压降后吸附气解吸接替,可依靠地层自然能量开采,游离气与吸附气连续接力长周期产气。按照埋深、煤阶、压力系数、储量规模、储量丰度和气井产量等,提出了煤岩气的分类标准和资源/储量估算方法。初步估算埋深超过2 000 m的中国煤岩气地质资源量超过30×1012m3,是国家重要的战略资源。提出鄂尔多斯、四川、准噶尔和渤海湾等盆地是煤岩气的规模富集有利区,梳理了技术与管理挑战并指出攻关方向,为中国煤岩气管理与勘探开发奠定理论、评价和生产实践基础。

基于空时级联单脉冲的多目标高效参数估计算法

比幅单脉冲最大似然算法(ACM-ML)在进行目标参数估计时需要进行距离与速度的2维松弛迭代搜索,导致了计算效率低、运算量大的问题。针对上述问题,该文提出一种基于空时级联单脉冲的高效多目标参数估计算法(M-STCMP算法)。该算法将单脉冲概念引入脉冲域,利用时域单脉冲计算目标速度,避免了ACM-ML算法中对速度的迭代搜索,将2维松弛迭代搜索降为1维搜索,有效降低了计算复杂度。考虑时域单脉冲无法同时匹配分布在不同时域主波束的速度各异的多个检测目标,进一步利用目标信号的多普勒信息,在各多普勒单元分别进行时域单脉冲测速,并搜索目标距离值。最后为抑制目标间的信号泄露,将所有目标的估计参数进行级联迭代获得高精度参数估计值。理论分析和仿真结果验证了M-STCMP算法的有效性。

新质生产力水平的统计测度与时空演变特征研究

文章基于新质生产力的内涵和主要特征,测算了2010—2021年中国30个省份的新质生产力水平,并分析了新质生产力水平的区域差异及动态演变特征,结果显示:(1)研究期内,中国新质生产力水平整体上呈现上升趋势,地区间差异较大,形成“东高西低”的区域发展格局。(2)新质生产力水平存在显著的区域异质性特征,东部地区内部的新质生产力水平差异大于中西部地区,东-西部及东-中部的地区间差异是导致中国新质生产力水平区域差异扩大的主要原因。(3)从新质生产力水平的分布及演变特征来看,全国及东西部地区的新质生产力水平均存在极化现象。从时空动态演进特征看,中国新质生产力水平不存在跨越式跃迁,整体上呈现梯度上升趋势,新质生产力水平较高的省份能够发挥辐射带动作用,促进邻近省份的发展,而当邻近省份的新质生产力水平较低时,该省份将趋于保持相对稳定的状态。

视觉SLAM方法综述

实时定位与建图(SLAM)技术搭载特定传感器,使移动机器人在无任何环境先验条件下,在运动过程中自主建立环境模型来计算自身位姿,大幅提高其自主导航能力,以及对不同应用环境的适应性。视觉SLAM方法以相机作为外部传感器,通过采集周围环境信息来创建地图并实时估计机器人自身位姿。为此,介绍了具有代表性的经典视觉SLAM方法及与深度学习相结合的视觉SLAM方法,分析了视觉SLAM方法中采用的不同特征检测方法、后端优化、闭环检测,以及动态环境下视觉SLAM方法的应用,总结了视觉SLAM方法的问题,并探讨了视觉SLAM方法在未来的热点研究方向和发展前景。

基于多新息最小二乘和多新息扩展卡尔曼滤波算法的锂电池SOC估计

针对现有SOC(荷电状态)估计方法中电池模型参数恒定,没有考虑电池模型参数的动态变化,导致SOC的估计不够精准的问题,文中提出了一种基于电池模型参数在线辨识与SOC估计联合的算法。在二阶RC等效电路模型基础上,采用多新息最小二乘(Multi Innovation Least Squares,MILS)算法对锂离子电池模型中的参数进行在线辨识,从而对电池模型进行实时修正;同时基于修正后的电池模型,采用多新息扩展卡尔曼滤波(Multi Innovation Extended Kalman Filter,MIEKF)算法对电池荷电状态进行估计。MILS算法可以解决在线参数辨识过程中的初始误差累积问题,能够实现模型参数的在线精准辨识,MIEKF算法融合了多新息理论和卡尔曼滤波理论,加入了遗忘因子以削弱历史数据并修正权重,解决了数据过饱和问题,具有较高的准确性和收敛性。实验结果表明,在对电池模型进行参数辨识时,MILS算法、RLS算法辨识的均方根误差分别为1.4、1.9 mV,MILS算法相比RLS算法的估计精度提高了26.3%;对于参数辨识后SOC的估计,MIEKF算法估计的均方根误差为0.0037,EKF算法、AEKF算法估计的均方根误差分别为0.0073、0.0052,MIEKF算法比EKF算法的估计精度提高了49.31%,比AEKF算法的估计精度提高了28.84%;并且在给定SOC初值错误的情况下,文中所提出算法在电池开始工作后30 s左右就能够收敛到真实值,是一种精度高而且鲁棒性好的有效估计方法。

基于改进COF-YOLO v8n的油茶果静态与动态检测计数方法

针对自然环境下油茶果存在严重遮挡、近景色、小目标等现象,使用YOLO网络存在检测精度低、漏检现象严重等问题,提出对YOLO v8n网络进行改进。首先使用MPDIOU作为YOLO v8n的损失函数,有效解决因为果实重叠导致的漏检问题;其次调整网络,向其中加入小目标检测层,使网络能够关注小目标油茶以及被树叶遮挡的油茶;最后使用SCConv作为特征提取网络,既能兼顾检测精度又能兼顾检测速度。改进COF-YOLO v8n网络精确率、召回率、平均精度均值分别达到97.7%、97%、99%,比未改进的YOLO v8n分别提高3.2、4.8、2.4个百分点,其中严重遮挡情况下油茶检测精确率、召回率、平均精度均值分别达到95.9%、95%、98.5%,分别比YOLO v8n提高4.0、9.1、4.6个百分点。因此改进后COF-YOLO v8n网络能够明显提高油茶在严重遮挡、近景色、小目标均存在情况下的识别精度,减小油茶的漏检。此外,模型能够实现动、静态输入条件下油茶果计数。动态计数借鉴DeepSORT算法的多目标跟踪思想,将改进后COF-YOLO v8n的识别输出作为DeepSORT的输入,实现油茶果实的追踪计数。所得改进模型具有很好的鲁棒性,且模型简单可以嵌入到边缘设备中,不仅可用于指导自动化采收,还可用于果园产量估计,为果园物流分配提供可靠借鉴。