Recently,weak supervision has received growing attention in the field of salient object detection due to the convenience of ***,there is a large performance gap between weakly supervised and fully supervised salient o...
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Recently,weak supervision has received growing attention in the field of salient object detection due to the convenience of ***,there is a large performance gap between weakly supervised and fully supervised salient object detectors because the scribble annotation can only provide very limited foreground/background ***,an intuitive idea is to infer annotations that cover more complete object and background regions for *** this end,a label inference strategy is proposed based on the assumption that pixels with similar colours and close positions should have consistent ***,k-means clustering algorithm was first performed on both colours and coordinates of original annotations,and then assigned the same labels to points having similar colours with colour cluster centres and near coordinate cluster ***,the same annotations for pixels with similar colours within each kernel neighbourhood was set *** experiments on six benchmarks demonstrate that our method can significantly improve the performance and achieve the state-of-the-art results.
Container-based virtualization technology has been more widely used in edge computing environments recently due to its advantages of lighter resource occupation, faster startup capability, and better resource utilizat...
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Container-based virtualization technology has been more widely used in edge computing environments recently due to its advantages of lighter resource occupation, faster startup capability, and better resource utilization efficiency. To meet the diverse needs of tasks, it usually needs to instantiate multiple network functions in the form of containers interconnect various generated containers to build a Container Cluster(CC). Then CCs will be deployed on edge service nodes with relatively limited resources. However, the increasingly complex and timevarying nature of tasks brings great challenges to optimal placement of CC. This paper regards the charges for various resources occupied by providing services as revenue, the service efficiency and energy consumption as cost, thus formulates a Mixed Integer Programming(MIP) model to describe the optimal placement of CC on edge service nodes. Furthermore, an Actor-Critic based Deep Reinforcement Learning(DRL) incorporating Graph Convolutional Networks(GCN) framework named as RL-GCN is proposed to solve the optimization problem. The framework obtains an optimal placement strategy through self-learning according to the requirements and objectives of the placement of CC. Particularly, through the introduction of GCN, the features of the association relationship between multiple containers in CCs can be effectively extracted to improve the quality of *** experiment results show that under different scales of service nodes and task requests, the proposed method can obtain the improved system performance in terms of placement error ratio, time efficiency of solution output and cumulative system revenue compared with other representative baseline methods.
The use of generative adversarial network(GAN)-based models for the conditional generation of image semantic segmentation has shown promising results in recent ***,there are still some limitations,including limited di...
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The use of generative adversarial network(GAN)-based models for the conditional generation of image semantic segmentation has shown promising results in recent ***,there are still some limitations,including limited diversity of image style,distortion of detailed texture,unbalanced color tone,and lengthy training *** address these issues,we propose an asymmetric pre-training and fine-tuning(APF)-GAN model.
In the realm of deep learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have emerged as a topic of significant interest for their potential to enhance model performance and enable effective data augmentation. This paper...
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With the development of information technology and cloud computing,data sharing has become an important part of scientific *** traditional data sharing,data is stored on a third-party storage platform,which causes the...
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With the development of information technology and cloud computing,data sharing has become an important part of scientific *** traditional data sharing,data is stored on a third-party storage platform,which causes the owner to lose control of the *** a result,there are issues of intentional data leakage and tampering by third parties,and the private information contained in the data may lead to more significant ***,data is frequently maintained on multiple storage platforms,posing significant hurdles in terms of enlisting multiple parties to engage in data sharing while maintaining *** this work,we propose a new architecture for applying blockchains to data sharing and achieve efficient and reliable data sharing among heterogeneous *** design a new data sharing transaction mechanism based on the system architecture to protect the security of the raw data and the processing *** also design and implement a hybrid concurrency control protocol to overcome issues caused by the large differences in blockchain performance in our system and to improve the success rate of data sharing *** took Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric as examples to conduct crossblockchain data sharing *** results show that our system achieves data sharing across heterogeneous blockchains with reasonable performance and has high scalability.
Point cloud completion aims to infer complete point clouds based on partial 3D point cloud *** previous methods apply coarseto-fine strategy networks for generating complete point ***,such methods are not only relativ...
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Point cloud completion aims to infer complete point clouds based on partial 3D point cloud *** previous methods apply coarseto-fine strategy networks for generating complete point ***,such methods are not only relatively time-consuming but also cannot provide representative complete shape features based on partial *** this paper,a novel feature alignment fast point cloud completion network(FACNet)is proposed to directly and efficiently generate the detailed shapes of *** aligns high-dimensional feature distributions of both partial and complete point clouds to maintain global information about the complete *** its decoding process,the local features from the partial point cloud are incorporated along with the maintained global information to ensure complete and time-saving generation of the complete point *** results show that FACNet outperforms the state-of-theart on PCN,Completion3D,and MVP datasets,and achieves competitive performance on ShapeNet-55 and KITTI ***,FACNet and a simplified version,FACNet-slight,achieve a significant speedup of 3–10 times over other state-of-the-art methods.
The effectiveness of modeling contextual information has been empirically shown in numerous computer vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a simple yet efficient augmented fully convolutional network(AugFCN) by aggr...
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The effectiveness of modeling contextual information has been empirically shown in numerous computer vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a simple yet efficient augmented fully convolutional network(AugFCN) by aggregating content-and position-based object contexts for semantic ***, motivated because each deep feature map is a global, class-wise representation of the input,we first propose an augmented nonlocal interaction(AugNI) to aggregate the global content-based contexts through all feature map interactions. Compared to classical position-wise approaches, AugNI is more efficient. Moreover, to eliminate permutation equivariance and maintain translation equivariance, a learnable,relative position embedding branch is then supportably installed in AugNI to capture the global positionbased contexts. AugFCN is built on a fully convolutional network as the backbone by deploying AugNI before the segmentation head network. Experimental results on two challenging benchmarks verify that AugFCN can achieve a competitive 45.38% mIoU(standard mean intersection over union) and 81.9% mIoU on the ADE20K val set and Cityscapes test set, respectively, with little computational overhead. Additionally, the results of the joint implementation of AugNI and existing context modeling schemes show that AugFCN leads to continuous segmentation improvements in state-of-the-art context modeling. We finally achieve a top performance of 45.43% mIoU on the ADE20K val set and 83.0% mIoU on the Cityscapes test set.
Digital twinning enables manufacturers to create digital representations of physical entities,thus implementing virtual simulations for product *** efforts of digital twinning neglect the decisive consumer feedback in...
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Digital twinning enables manufacturers to create digital representations of physical entities,thus implementing virtual simulations for product *** efforts of digital twinning neglect the decisive consumer feedback in product development stages,failing to cover the gap between physical and digital *** work mines real-world consumer feedbacks through social media topics,which is significant to product *** specifically analyze the prevalent time of a product topic,giving an insight into both consumer attention and the widely-discussed time of a *** primary body of current studies regards the prevalent time prediction as an accompanying task or assumes the existence of a preset ***,these proposed solutions are either biased in focused objectives and underlying patterns or weak in the capability of generalization towards diverse *** this end,this work combines deep learning and survival analysis to predict the prevalent time of *** propose a specialized deep survival model which consists of two *** first module enriches input covariates by incorporating latent features of the time-varying text,and the second module fully captures the temporal pattern of a rumor by a recurrent network ***,a specific loss function different from regular survival models is proposed to achieve a more reasonable *** experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that our model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.
Brain tumor classification is crucial for personalized treatment *** deep learning-based Artificial Intelligence(AI)models can automatically analyze tumor images,fine details of small tumor regions may be overlooked d...
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Brain tumor classification is crucial for personalized treatment *** deep learning-based Artificial Intelligence(AI)models can automatically analyze tumor images,fine details of small tumor regions may be overlooked during global feature ***,we propose a brain tumor Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)classification model based on a global-local parallel dual-branch *** global branch employs ResNet50 with a Multi-Head Self-Attention(MHSA)to capture global contextual information from whole brain images,while the local branch utilizes VGG16 to extract fine-grained features from segmented brain tumor *** features from both branches are processed through designed attention-enhanced feature fusion module to filter and integrate important ***,to address sample imbalance in the dataset,we introduce a category attention block to improve the recognition of minority *** results indicate that our method achieved a classification accuracy of 98.04%and a micro-average Area Under the Curve(AUC)of 0.989 in the classification of three types of brain tumors,surpassing several existing pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)***,feature interpretability analysis validated the effectiveness of the proposed *** suggests that the method holds significant potential for brain tumor image classification.
Recommender systems are effective in mitigating information overload, yet the centralized storage of user data raises significant privacy concerns. Cross-user federated recommendation(CUFR) provides a promising distri...
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Recommender systems are effective in mitigating information overload, yet the centralized storage of user data raises significant privacy concerns. Cross-user federated recommendation(CUFR) provides a promising distributed paradigm to address these concerns by enabling privacy-preserving recommendations directly on user devices. In this survey, we review and categorize current progress in CUFR, focusing on four key aspects: privacy, security, accuracy, and efficiency. Firstly,we conduct an in-depth privacy analysis, discuss various cases of privacy leakage, and then review recent methods for privacy protection. Secondly, we analyze security concerns and review recent methods for untargeted and targeted *** untargeted attack methods, we categorize them into data poisoning attack methods and parameter poisoning attack methods. For targeted attack methods, we categorize them into user-based methods and item-based methods. Thirdly,we provide an overview of the federated variants of some representative methods, and then review the recent methods for improving accuracy from two categories: data heterogeneity and high-order information. Fourthly, we review recent methods for improving training efficiency from two categories: client sampling and model compression. Finally, we conclude this survey and explore some potential future research topics in CUFR.
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