Incorporating both flexible and rigid components in robot designs offers a unique solution to the limitations of traditional rigid robotics by enabling both compliance and strength. This paper explores the challenges ...
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Flexible polymer-based foam sensors have significant potential for application in wearable electronics and motion monitoring. However, these prospects are hindered by the complex and unenvironmentally friendly manufac...
Flexible polymer-based foam sensors have significant potential for application in wearable electronics and motion monitoring. However, these prospects are hindered by the complex and unenvironmentally friendly manufacturing processes. In this study, we employed melt blending and supercritical carbon dioxide foaming to fabricate an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer(EVA)/low-density polyethylene(LDPE)/carbon nanotube(CNT) piezoresistive foam sensor. The cross-linking agent bis(tert-butyldioxyisopropyl) benzene and the conductive filler CNT were incorporated into the EVA/LDPE composite, successfully achieving a chemically cross-linked and physically entangled composite structure that significantly enhanced the storage modulus and complex viscosity. Additionally, the compressive strength of EVA/LDPE/CNT foam with 10 parts per hundred rubber(phr) CNT reached 1.37 MPa at 50% compression, marking a 340% increase compared to the 0.31 MPa of the CNT-free sample. Furthermore, the EVA/LDPE/CNT composite foams, which incorporated 10 phr CNT, were prepared under specific foaming conditions, resulting in an ultra-low density of 0.11 g/cm3and a higher sensitivity, with a gauge factor of –2.3. The piezoresistive foam sensors developed in this work could accurately detect human motion, thereby expanding their applications in the field of piezoresistive foam sensors and providing an effective strategy for the advancement of high-performance piezoresistive foam sensors.
The exceptionally high bandwidth requirements associated with the delivery of live 360° video content pose significant challenges in the current network context. An avenue for addressing this bandwidth challenge ...
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The exceptionally high bandwidth requirements associated with the delivery of live 360° video content pose significant challenges in the current network context. An avenue for addressing this bandwidth challenge is to use the limited network resources for sending the user's Field-of-View (FoV) tiles at a high resolution, instead of transmitting all frame components at high quality. However, precisely forecasting the FoV for 360° live video content distribution remains a complex endeavor due to the lack of pre-knowledge on user viewing behaviors. In this paper, we present GL360, a novel 360° transmission framework, which employs Graph Representation Learning for FoV prediction. First, we analyze the interaction between users and tiles in panoramic videos utilizing a dynamic heterogeneous Relational Graph Convolutional Network (RGCN), which facilitates efficient user and tile embedding representation learning. Secondly, we propose an online dynamic heterogeneous graph learning (DHGL)-based algorithm to dynamically capture the time-varying features of the user's viewing behaviors with limited prior knowledge. Further, we design a FoV-aware content delivery algorithm that allows the edge servers to determine the video tiles' resolution for each accessed user. Experimental results based on real traces demonstrate how our solution outperforms four other solutions in terms of FoV prediction and network performance IEEE
We apply implicit neural representations—which naturally capture spectral regularity—to reconstruct color Fourier ptychographic microscopy images from spectrally-sparse measurements. We conduct experiments on real-w...
Goal-conditioned policies are generally understood to be "feed-forward" circuits, in the form of neural networks that map from the current state and the goal specification to the next action to take. However...
Goal-conditioned policies are generally understood to be "feed-forward" circuits, in the form of neural networks that map from the current state and the goal specification to the next action to take. However, under what circumstances such a policy can be learned and how efficient the policy will be are not well understood. In this paper, we present a circuit complexity analysis for relational neural networks (such as graph neural networks and transformers) representing policies for planning problems, by drawing connections with serialized goal regression search (S-GRS). We show that there are three general classes of planning problems, in terms of the growth of circuit width and depth as a function of the number of objects and planning horizon, providing constructive proofs. We also illustrate the utility of this analysis for designing neural networks for policy learning.
Retinal images play an essential role in the early diagnosis of ophthalmic *** segmentation of retinal vessels in color fundus images is challenging due to the morphological differences between the retinal vessels and...
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Retinal images play an essential role in the early diagnosis of ophthalmic *** segmentation of retinal vessels in color fundus images is challenging due to the morphological differences between the retinal vessels and the low-contrast *** the same time,automated models struggle to capture representative and discriminative retinal vascular *** fully utilize the structural information of the retinal blood vessels,we propose a novel deep learning network called Pre-Activated Convolution Residual and Triple Attention Mechanism Network(PCRTAM-Net).PCRTAM-Net uses the pre-activated dropout convolution residual method to improve the feature learning ability of the *** addition,the residual atrous convolution spatial pyramid is integrated into both ends of the network encoder to extract multiscale information and improve blood vessel information flow.A triple attention mechanism is proposed to extract the structural information between vessel contexts and to learn long-range feature *** evaluate the proposed PCRTAM-Net on four publicly available datasets,DRIVE,CHASE_DB1,STARE,and *** model achieves state-of-the-art performance of 97.10%,97.70%,97.68%,and 97.14%for ACC and 83.05%,82.26%,84.64%,and 81.16%for F1,respectively.
Financial transaction systems have become the critical backbone of modern society, and the sharp increase in fraudulent transactions has become an unavoidable significant topic. Their presence poses a severe threat to...
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The blockchain provides a reliable and scalable method for enabling source-tracing functionality in large-scale Internet of Things(IoT)*** blockchain-based source tracing applications are generally based on the hypoth...
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The blockchain provides a reliable and scalable method for enabling source-tracing functionality in large-scale Internet of Things(IoT)*** blockchain-based source tracing applications are generally based on the hypothesis that the raw data collected by each IoT node are credible and consistent,which however may not always be the *** no mechanism ensures the reliability of the original data collected from the IoT devices,these data may be accidently screwed up or maliciously tampered with before they are uploaded *** address this issue,we propose the Multi-dimensional Certificates of Origin(MCO)method to filter out the potentially incredible data-till all the data uploaded to the chain are *** achieve this,we devise the Multidimensional Information Cross-Verification(MICV)and Multi-source Data Matching Calculation(MDMC)*** verifies whether a to-be-uploaded datum is consistent or credible,and MDMC determines which data should be discarded and which data should be kept to retain the most likely credible/untampered ones in the circumstance when data inconsistency ***-scale experiments show that our scheme ensures on the credibility of data and off the chain with an affordable overhead.
The emergence of deep and large-scale spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibiting high performance across diverse complex datasets has led to a need for compressing network models due to the presence of a significant nu...
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The emergence of deep and large-scale spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibiting high performance across diverse complex datasets has led to a need for compressing network models due to the presence of a significant number of redundant structural units, aiming to more effectively leverage their low-power consumption and biological interpretability advantages. Currently, most model compression techniques for SNNs are based on unstructured pruning of individual connections, which requires specific hardware support. Hence, we propose a structured pruning approach based on the activity levels of convolutional kernels named Spiking Channel Activity-based (SCA) network pruning framework. Inspired by synaptic plasticity mechanisms, our method dynamically adjusts the network's structure by pruning and regenerating convolutional kernels during training, enhancing the model's adaptation to the current target task. While maintaining model performance, this approach refines the network architecture, ultimately reducing computational load and accelerating the inference process. This indicates that structured dynamic sparse learning methods can better facilitate the application of deep SNNs in low-power and high-efficiency scenarios. Copyright 2024 by the author(s)
This paper studies the challenging task of makeup transfer, which aims to apply diverse makeup styles precisely and naturally to a given facial image. Due to the absence of paired data, current methods typically synth...
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This paper studies the challenging task of makeup transfer, which aims to apply diverse makeup styles precisely and naturally to a given facial image. Due to the absence of paired data, current methods typically synthesize sub-optimal pseudo ground truths to guide the model training, resulting in low makeup fidelity. Additionally, different makeup styles generally have varying effects on the person face, but existing methods struggle to deal with this diversity. To address these issues, we propose a novel Self-supervised Hierarchical Makeup Transfer (SHMT) method via latent diffusion models. Following a "decoupling-and-reconstruction" paradigm, SHMT works in a self-supervised manner, freeing itself from the misguidance of imprecise pseudo-paired data. Furthermore, to accommodate a variety of makeup styles, hierarchical texture details are decomposed via a Laplacian pyramid and selectively introduced to the content representation. Finally, we design a novel Iterative Dual Alignment (IDA) module that dynamically adjusts the injection condition of the diffusion model, allowing the alignment errors caused by the domain gap between content and makeup representations to be corrected. Extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Our code is available at https://***/Snowfallingplum/SHMT.
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