In permissioned blockchain networks,the Proof of Authority(PoA)consensus,which uses the election of authorized nodes to validate transactions and blocks,has beenwidely advocated thanks to its high transaction throughp...
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In permissioned blockchain networks,the Proof of Authority(PoA)consensus,which uses the election of authorized nodes to validate transactions and blocks,has beenwidely advocated thanks to its high transaction throughput and fault ***,PoA suffers from the drawback of centralization dominated by a limited number of authorized nodes and the lack of anonymity due to the round-robin block proposal *** a result,traditional PoA is vulnerable to a single point of failure that compromises the security of the blockchain *** address these issues,we propose a novel decentralized reputation management mechanism for permissioned blockchain networks to enhance security,promote liveness,and mitigate centralization while retaining the same throughput as traditional *** paper aims to design an off-chain reputation evaluation and an on-chain reputation-aided ***,we evaluate the nodes’reputation in the context of the blockchain networks and make the reputation globally verifiable through smart ***,building upon traditional PoA,we propose a reputation-aided PoA(rPoA)consensus to enhance securitywithout sacrificing *** particular,rPoA can incentivize nodes to autonomously form committees based on reputation authority,which prevents block generation from being tracked through the randomness of reputation ***,we develop a reputation-aided fork-choice rule for rPoA to promote the network’s ***,experimental results show that the proposed rPoA achieves higher security performance while retaining transaction throughput compared to traditional PoA.
Validation code systems have been widely used in websites and forums as CAPTCHA. The attack on the validation code system poses a significant threat to the website. Many validation code systems use random number gener...
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Plasma,the fourth state of matter,is characterized by the presence of charged particles,including ions and *** has been shown to induce unique physical and chemical ***,there have been increased applications of plasma...
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Plasma,the fourth state of matter,is characterized by the presence of charged particles,including ions and *** has been shown to induce unique physical and chemical ***,there have been increased applications of plasma technology in the field of multiscale functional materials'preparation,with a number of interesting *** review will begin by introducing the basic knowledge of plasma,including the definition,typical parameters,and classification of plasma *** this,we will provide a comprehensive review and summary of the applications(phase conversion,doping,deposition,etching,exfoliation,and surface treatment)of plasma in common energy conversion and storage systems,such as electrocatalytic conversion of small molecules,batteries,fuel cells,and *** article summarizes the structure-performance relationships of electrochemical energy conversion and storage materials(ECSMs)that have been prepared or modified by *** also provides an overview of the challenges and perspectives of plasma technology,which could lead to a new approach for designing and modifying electrode materials in ECSMs.
Optoelectronic synapses that integrate visual perception and pre-processing hold significant potential for neuromorphic vision systems(NVSs). However, due to a lack of wavelength sensitivity, existing NVS mainly foc...
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Optoelectronic synapses that integrate visual perception and pre-processing hold significant potential for neuromorphic vision systems(NVSs). However, due to a lack of wavelength sensitivity, existing NVS mainly focuses on gray-scale image processing, making it challenging to recognize color images. Additionally, the high power consumption of optoelectronic synapses, compared to the 10 fJ energy consumption of biological synapses, limits their broader application. To address these challenges, an energy-efficient NVS capable of color target recognition in a noisy environment was developed,utilizing a MoS2optoelectronic synapse with wavelength sensitivity. Benefiting from the distinct photon capture capabilities of 450, 535, and 650 nm light, the optoelectronic synapse exhibits wavelength-dependent synaptic plasticity, including excitatory postsynaptic current(EPSC), paired-pulse facilitation(PPF), and long-term plasticity(LTP). These properties can effectively mimic the visual memory and color discrimination functions of the human vision system. Results demonstrate that the NVS, based on MoS2optoelectronic synapses, can eliminate the color noise at the sensor level, increasing color image recognition accuracy from 50% to 90%. Importantly, the optoelectronic synapse operates at a low voltage spike of0.0005 V, consuming only 0.075 fJ per spike, surpassing the energy efficiency of both existing optoelectronic and biological synapses. This ultra-low power, color-sensitive device eliminates the need for color filters and offers great promise for future deployment in filter-free NVS.
The self-cascade(SC) method is an effective technique for chaos enhancement and complexity increasing in chaos ***, the controllable self-cascade(CSC) method allows for more accurate control of Lyapunov exponents of t...
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The self-cascade(SC) method is an effective technique for chaos enhancement and complexity increasing in chaos ***, the controllable self-cascade(CSC) method allows for more accurate control of Lyapunov exponents of the discrete map. In this work, the SC and CSC systems of the original map are derived, which enhance the chaotic performance while preserving the fundamental dynamical characteristics of the original map. Higher Lyapunov exponent of chaotic sequences corresponding to higher frequency are obtained in SC and CSC systems. Meanwhile, the Lyapunov exponent could be linearly controlled with greater flexibility in the CSC system. The verification of the numerical simulation and theoretical analysis is carried out based on the platform of CH32.
The tracking performance of Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has recently been improved by using discriminative appearance and motion features. However, dense crowds and occlusions significantly reduce the reliability of t...
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A critical component of visual simultaneous localization and mapping is loop closure detection(LCD),an operation judging whether a robot has come to a pre-visited ***,given a query image(i.e.,the latest view observed ...
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A critical component of visual simultaneous localization and mapping is loop closure detection(LCD),an operation judging whether a robot has come to a pre-visited ***,given a query image(i.e.,the latest view observed by the robot),it proceeds by first exploring images with similar semantic information,followed by solving the relative relationship between candidate pairs in the 3D *** this work,a novel appearance-based LCD system is ***,candidate frame selection is conducted via the combination of Superfeatures and aggregated selective match kernel(ASMK).We incorporate an incremental strategy into the vanilla ASMK to make it applied in the LCD *** is demonstrated that this setting is memory-wise efficient and can achieve remarkable *** dig up consistent geometry between image pairs during loop closure verification,we propose a simple yet surprisingly effective feature matching algorithm,termed locality preserving matching with global consensus(LPM-GC).The major objective of LPM-GC is to retain the local neighborhood information of true feature correspondences between candidate pairs,where a global constraint is further designed to effectively remove false correspondences in challenging sceneries,e.g.,containing numerous repetitive ***,we derive a closed-form solution that enables our approach to provide reliable correspondences within only a few *** performance of the proposed approach has been experimentally evaluated on ten publicly available and challenging *** show that our method can achieve better performance over the state-of-the-art in both feature matching and LCD *** have released our code of LPM-GC at https://***/jiayi-ma/LPM-GC.
Underwater target detection is an important method for detecting marine organisms. However, due to the image occlusion of underwater targets, blurred water quality, poor lighting conditions, small targets, and complex...
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With the increasing popularity of artificial intelligence applications,machine learning is also playing an increasingly important role in the Internet of Things(IoT)and the Internet of Vehicles(IoV).As an essential pa...
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With the increasing popularity of artificial intelligence applications,machine learning is also playing an increasingly important role in the Internet of Things(IoT)and the Internet of Vehicles(IoV).As an essential part of the IoV,smart transportation relies heavily on information obtained from ***,inclement weather,such as snowy weather,negatively impacts the process and can hinder the regular operation of imaging equipment and the acquisition of conventional image *** only that,but the snow also makes intelligent transportation systems make the wrong judgment of road conditions and the entire system of the Internet of Vehicles *** paper describes the single image snowremoval task and the use of a vision transformer to generate adversarial *** residual structure is used in the algorithm,and the Transformer structure is used in the network structure of the generator in the generative adversarial networks,which improves the accuracy of the snow removal ***,the vision transformer has good scalability and versatility for larger models and has a more vital fitting ability than the previously popular convolutional neural *** Snow100K dataset is used for training,testing and comparison,and the peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity are used as evaluation *** experimental results show that the improved snow removal algorithm performs well and can obtain high-quality snow removal images.
Previous deep learning-based super-resolution(SR)methods rely on the assumption that the degradation process is predefined(e.g.,bicubic downsampling).Thus,their performance would suffer from deterioration if the real ...
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Previous deep learning-based super-resolution(SR)methods rely on the assumption that the degradation process is predefined(e.g.,bicubic downsampling).Thus,their performance would suffer from deterioration if the real degradation is not consistent with the *** deal with real-world scenarios,existing blind SR methods are committed to estimating both the degradation and the super-resolved image with an extra loss or iterative ***,degradation estimation that requires more computation would result in limited SR performance due to the accumulated estimation *** this paper,we propose a contrastive regularization built upon contrastive learning to exploit both the information of blurry images and clear images as negative and positive samples,*** regularization ensures that the restored image is pulled closer to the clear image and pushed far away from the blurry image in the representation ***,instead of estimating the degradation,we extract global statistical prior information to capture the character of the *** the coupling between the degradation and the low-resolution image,we embed the global prior into the distortion-specific SR network to make our method adaptive to the changes of *** term our distortion-specific network with contrastive regularization as *** extensive experiments on synthetic and realworld scenes demonstrate that our lightweight CRDNet surpasses state-of-the-art blind super-resolution approaches.
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