View interpolation networks for reproducing the material appearance of specular objects

Background In this study, we propose view interpolation networks to reproduce changes in the brightness of an object′s surface depending on the viewing direction, which is important for reproducing the material appearance of a real object. Method We used an original and modified version of U-Net for image transformation. The networks were trained to generate images from the intermediate viewpoints of four cameras placed at the corners of a square. We conducted an experiment using with three different combinations of methods and training data formats. Result We determined that inputting the coordinates of the viewpoints together with the four camera images and using images from random viewpoints as the training data produces the best results.

A Novel Action Transformer Network for Hybrid Multimodal Sign Language Recognition

Sign language fills the communication gap for people with hearing and speaking ailments.It includes both visual modalities,manual gestures consisting of movements of hands,and non-manual gestures incorporating body movements including head,facial expressions,eyes,shoulder shrugging,etc.Previously both gestures have been detected;identifying separately may have better accuracy,butmuch communicational information is lost.Aproper sign language mechanism is needed to detect manual and non-manual gestures to convey the appropriate detailed message to others.Our novel proposed system contributes as Sign LanguageAction Transformer Network(SLATN),localizing hand,body,and facial gestures in video sequences.Here we are expending a Transformer-style structural design as a“base network”to extract features from a spatiotemporal domain.Themodel impulsively learns to track individual persons and their action context inmultiple frames.Furthermore,a“head network”emphasizes hand movement and facial expression simultaneously,which is often crucial to understanding sign language,using its attention mechanism for creating tight bounding boxes around classified gestures.The model’s work is later compared with the traditional identification methods of activity recognition.It not only works faster but achieves better accuracy as well.Themodel achieves overall 82.66%testing accuracy with a very considerable performance of computation with 94.13 Giga-Floating Point Operations per Second(G-FLOPS).Another contribution is a newly created dataset of Pakistan Sign Language forManual and Non-Manual(PkSLMNM)gestures.

SIT.net: SAR Deforestation Classification of Amazon Forest for Land Use Land Cover Application

The process of turning forest area into land is known as deforestation or forest degradation. Reforestation as a fraction of deforestation is extremely low. For improved qualitative and quantitative classification, we used Sentinel-1 dataset of State of Para, Brazil to precisely and closely monitor deforestation between June 2019 and June 2023. This research aimed to find out suitable model for classification called Satellite Imaging analysis by Transpose deep neural transformation network (SIT-net) using mathematical model based on Band math approach to classify deforestation applying transpose deep neural network. The main advantage of proposed model is easy to handle SAR images. The study concludes that SAR satellite gives high-resolution images to improve deforestation monitoring and proposed model takes less computational time compared to other techniques.

Network Decomposition and Maximum Independent Set Part Ⅱ: Application Research

According to the researches on theoretic basis in part Ⅰ of the paper, the spanning tree algorithms solving the maximum independent set both in even network and in odd network have been developed in this part, part Ⅱ of the paper. The algorithms transform first the general network into the pair sets network, and then decompose the pair sets network into a series of pair subsets by use of the characteristic of maximum flow passing through the pair sets network. As for the even network, the algorithm requires only one time of transformation and decomposition, the maximum independent set can be gained without any iteration processes, and the time complexity of the algorithm is within the bound of O(V3). However, as for the odd network, the algorithm consists of two stages. In the first stage, the general odd network is transformed and decomposed into the pseudo-negative envelope graphs and generalized reverse pseudo-negative envelope graphs alternately distributed at first; then the algorithm turns to the second stage, searching for the negative envelope graphs within the pseudo-negative envelope graphs only. Each time as a negative envelope graph has been found, renew the pair sets network by iteration at once, and then turn back to the first stage. So both stages form a circulation process up to the optimum. Two available methods, the adjusting search and the picking-off search are specially developed to deal with the problems resulted from the odd network. Both of them link up with each other harmoniously and are embedded together in the algorithm. Analysis and study indicate that the time complexity of this algorithm is within the bound of O(V5).

Network Decomposition and Maximum Independent Set Part Ⅰ:Theoretic Basis

The structure and characteristics of a connected network are analyzed, and a special kind of sub-network, which can optimize the iteration processes, is discovered. Then, the sufficient and necessary conditions for obtaining the maximum independent set are deduced. It is found that the neighborhood of this sub-network possesses the similar characters, but both can never be allowed incorporated together. Particularly, it is identified that the network can be divided into two parts by a certain style, and then both of them can be transformed into a pair sets network, where the special sub-networks and their neighborhoods appear alternately distributed throughout the entire pair sets network. By use of this characteristic, the network decomposed enough without losing any solutions is obtained. All of these above will be able to make well ready for developing a much better algorithm with polynomial time bound for an odd network in the the application research part of this subject.

Method to generate training samples for neural network used in target recognition

Training neural network to recognize targets needs a lot of samples.People usually get these samples in a non-systematic way,which can miss or overemphasize some target information.To improve this situation,a new method based on virtual model and invariant moments was proposed to generate training samples.The method was composed of the following steps：use computer and simulation software to build target object＇s virtual model and then simulate the environment,light condition,camera parameter,etc.;rotate the model by spin and nutation of inclination to get the image sequence by virtual camera;preprocess each image and transfer them into binary image;calculate the invariant moments for each image and get a vectors＇ sequence.The vectors＇ sequence which was proved to be complete became the training samples together with the target outputs.The simulated results showed that the proposed method could be used to recognize the real targets and improve the accuracy of target recognition effectively when the sampling interval was short enough and the circumstance simulation was close enough.

Automated Facial Expression Recognition and Age Estimation Using Deep Learning

With the advancement of computer vision techniques in surveillance systems,the need for more proficient,intelligent,and sustainable facial expressions and age recognition is necessary.The main purpose of this study is to develop accurate facial expressions and an age recognition system that is capable of error-free recognition of human expression and age in both indoor and outdoor environments.The proposed system first takes an input image pre-process it and then detects faces in the entire image.After that landmarks localization helps in the formation of synthetic face mask prediction.A novel set of features are extracted and passed to a classifier for the accurate classification of expressions and age group.The proposed system is tested over two benchmark datasets,namely,the Gallagher collection person dataset and the Images of Groups dataset.The system achieved remarkable results over these benchmark datasets about recognition accuracy and computational time.The proposed system would also be applicable in different consumer application domains such as online business negotiations,consumer behavior analysis,E-learning environments,and emotion robotics.

A transformer-based Siamese network and an open optical dataset for semantic change detection of remote sensing images

Recent change detection(CD)methods focus on the extraction of deep change semantic features.However,existing methods overlook the fine-grained features and have the poor ability to capture long-range space–time information,which leads to the micro changes missing and the edges of change types smoothing.In this paper,a potential transformer-based semantic change detection(SCD)model,Pyramid-SCDFormer is proposed,which precisely recognizes the small changes and fine edges details of the changes.The SCD model selectively merges different semantic tokens in multi-head self-attention block to obtain multiscale features,which is crucial for extraction information of remote sensing images(RSIs)with multiple changes from different scales.Moreover,we create a well-annotated SCD dataset,Landsat-SCD with unprecedented time series and change types in complex scenarios.Comparing with three Convolutional Neural Network-based,one attention-based,and two transformer-based networks,experimental results demonstrate that the Pyramid-SCDFormer stably outperforms the existing state-of-the-art CD models and obtains an improvement in MIoU/F1 of 1.11/0.76%,0.57/0.50%,and 8.75/8.59%on the LEVIR-CD,WHU_CD,and Landsat-SCD dataset respectively.For change classes proportion less than 1%,the proposed model improves the MIoU by 7.17–19.53%on Landsat-SCD dataset.The recognition performance for small-scale and fine edges of change types has greatly improved.

Poisson Image Restoration via Transformed Network

There is a Poisson inverse problem in biomedical imaging,fluorescence microscopy and so on.Since the observed measurements are damaged by a linear operator and further destroyed by Poisson noise,recovering the approximate original image is difficult.Motivated by the decouple scheme and the variance-stabilizing transformation(VST)strategy,we propose a method of transformed convolutional neural network(CNN)to restore the observed image.In the network,the Conv-layers play the role of a linear inverse filter and the distribution transformation simultaneously.Furthermore,there is no batch normalization(BN)layer in the residual block of the network,which is devoted to tackling with the non-Gaussian recovery procedure.The proposed method is compared with state-of-the-art Poisson deblurring algorithms,and the experimental results show the effectiveness of the method.

Mathematical Modeling and Control Algorithm Development for Bidirectional Power Flow in CCS-CNT System

As the demand for more efficient and adaptable power distribution systems intensifies, especially in rural areas, innovative solutions like the Capacitor-Coupled Substation with a Controllable Network Transformer (CCS-CNT) are becoming increasingly critical. Traditional power distribution networks, often limited by unidirectional flow capabilities and inflexibility, struggle to meet the complex demands of modern energy systems. The CCS-CNT system offers a transformative approach by enabling bidirectional power flow between high-voltage transmission lines and local distribution networks, a feature that is essential for integrating renewable energy sources and ensuring reliable electrification in underserved regions. This paper presents a detailed mathematical representation of power flow within the CCS-CNT system, emphasizing the control of both active and reactive power through the adjustment of voltage levels and phase angles. A control algorithm is developed to dynamically manage power flow, ensuring optimal performance by minimizing losses and maintaining voltage stability across the network. The proposed CCS-CNT system demonstrates significant potential in enhancing the efficiency and reliability of power distribution, making it particularly suited for rural electrification and other applications where traditional methods fall short. The findings underscore the system's capability to adapt to varying operational conditions, offering a robust solution for modern power distribution challenges.

Graph Enhanced Transformer for Aspect Category Detection

Aspect category detection is one challenging subtask of aspect based sentiment analysis, which categorizes a review sentence into a set of predefined aspect categories. Most existing methods regard the aspect category detection as a flat classification problem. However, aspect categories are inter-related, and they are usually organized with a hierarchical tree structure. To leverage the structure information, this paper proposes a hierarchical multi-label classification model to detect aspect categories and uses a graph enhanced transformer network to integrate label dependency information into prediction features. Experiments have been conducted on four widely-used benchmark datasets, showing that the proposed model outperforms all strong baselines.

Macroporous Hydrogels Prepared by Ice Templating: Developments and Challenges

Macroporous hydrogels are water-swollen polymer networks with porous structures beyond the mesh size.They provide high specific surface areas and hieratical mass transfer channels which are desired for emerging applications including cell culturing,bio-separation,and drug delivery.A variety of approaches have been developed to fabricate macroporous hydrogels,including gas foaming,porogen templating,phase separation,3D printing,etc.Alternatively,ice templating utilizes the crystallization of water as the porogenation mechanism which doesn't need the leaching of porogens.

Integrated Multi-Head Self-Attention Transformer model for electricity demand prediction incorporating local climate variables

This paper develops a trustworthy deep learning model that considers electricity demand(G)and local climate conditions.The model utilises Multi-Head Self-Attention Transformer(TNET)to capture critical information from𝐻,to attain reliable predictions with local climate(rainfall,radiation,humidity,evaporation,and maximum and minimum temperatures)data from Energex substations in Queensland,Australia.The TNET model is then evaluated with deep learning models(Long-Short Term Memory LSTM,Bidirectional LSTM BILSTM,Gated Recurrent Unit GRU,Convolutional Neural Networks CNN,and Deep Neural Network DNN)based on robust model assessment metrics.The Kernel Density Estimation method is used to generate the prediction interval(PI)of electricity demand forecasts and derive probability metrics and results to show the developed TNET model is accurate for all the substations.The study concludes that the proposed TNET model is a reliable electricity demand predictive tool that has high accuracy and low predictive errors and could be employed as a stratagem by demand modellers and energy policy-makers who wish to incorporate climatic factors into electricity demand patterns and develop national energy market insights and analysis systems.