The Nurse Rostering Problem (NRP) is important for hospital management, which aims to balance both the needs of employees and the requirements of hospital operations. Currently, most studies often use local search met...
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We present Acoustic Inertial Measurement (AIM), a one-of-a-kind technique for indoor drone localization and tracking. Indoor drone localization and tracking are arguably a crucial, yet unsolved challenge: in GPS-denie...
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Smile intensity estimation is a challenging task as it required subtle feature extraction, self-Adapted weighted model and classifier. complexity of the problem domains, and problems on fine-grained image recognition ...
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Federated learning (FL) sheds light on efficiently and privately learning from massive Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, the iterative training and aggregation pose additional stress on the limited energy and...
Federated learning (FL) sheds light on efficiently and privately learning from massive Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, the iterative training and aggregation pose additional stress on the limited energy and availability budgets of clients. In this paper, we discuss two types of availability budgets of IoT clients, including the timing to start participating in FL and the communication budgets due to their constrained energy. We theoretically analyze the effect of availability budgets on FL, based on the availability constraints, by leveraging a decaying quadratic function to prioritize learning from statistically heterogeneous clients during the initial training rounds. We also consider the effects of client availability in terms of their participation to find a balance among clients with varying availability. We present FedCAB, an algorithm applying our theoretical model for the probabilistic rankings of the available clients to select in each round of FL model aggregation. Numerical results show the effectiveness of FedCAB under label distribution skew with a limited communication budget and clients that join the learning process in later rounds. We release the source code of FedCAB at https://***/denoslab/FedCAB.
Spatial audio content is becoming increasingly popular and is regarded as a set of object signals with associated metadata. The object-based content representation is independent of loudspeaker layouts and provides hi...
Spatial audio content is becoming increasingly popular and is regarded as a set of object signals with associated metadata. The object-based content representation is independent of loudspeaker layouts and provides high spatial resolution when reproduced on more loudspeakers. The audio quality of the traditional spatial audio object coding (SAOC) method has severe aliasing distortion, which impairs the immersive listening experience. In this study, we reduce aliasing distortion by perceptual adaptive subband grouping strategy and use the convolutional neural network (CNN) and residual block to build the side information compressing model. Both objective and subjective experiments on benchmark datasets with different bitrates show that the proposed method achieves favorable performance against state-of-the-art methods.
Forests cover nearly one-third of the Earth’s land and are some of our most biodiverse ecosystems. Due to climate change, these essential habitats are endangered by increasing wildfires. Wildfires are not just a risk...
Forests cover nearly one-third of the Earth’s land and are some of our most biodiverse ecosystems. Due to climate change, these essential habitats are endangered by increasing wildfires. Wildfires are not just a risk to the environment, but they also pose public health risks. Given these issues, there is an indispensable need for efficient and early detection methods. Conventional detection approaches fall short due to spatial limitations and manual feature engineering, which calls for the exploration and development of data-driven deep learning solutions. This paper, in this regard, proposes 'FireXnet', a tailored deep learning model designed for improved efficiency and accuracy in wildfire detection. FireXnet is tailored to have a lightweight architecture that exhibits high accuracy with significantly less training and testing time. It contains considerably reduced trainable and non-trainable parameters, which makes it suitable for resource-constrained devices. To make the FireXnet model visually explainable and trustable, a powerful explainable artificial intelligence (AI) tool, SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) has been incorporated. It interprets FireXnet’s decisions by computing the contribution of each feature to the prediction. Furthermore, the performance of FireXnet is compared against five pre-trained models — VGG16, InceptionResNetV2, InceptionV3, DenseNet201, and MobileNetV2 — to benchmark its efficiency. For a fair comparison, transfer learning and fine-tuning have been applied to the aforementioned models to retrain the models on our dataset. The test accuracy of the proposed FireXnet model is 98.42%, which is greater than all other models used for comparison. Furthermore, results of reliability parameters confirm the model’s reliability, i.e., a confidence interval of [0.97, 1.00] validates the certainty of the proposed model’s estimates and a Cohen’s kappa coefficient of 0.98 proves that decisions of FireXnet are in considerable accordance with t
Overfitting commonly occurs when applying deep neural networks (DNNs) on small-scale datasets, where DNNs do not generalize well from existing data to unseen data. The main reason resulting in overfitting is that smal...
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Federated learning, an emerging distributed learning paradigm, offers significant advantages and holds promise for addressing trust issues, breaking down data silos, and enabling active data sharing in the realm of co...
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Federated learning, an emerging distributed learning paradigm, offers significant advantages and holds promise for addressing trust issues, breaking down data silos, and enabling active data sharing in the realm of consumer electronics. However, traditional federated learning faces critical security and privacy challenges in this domain, including single-point attacks, inference attacks, and poisoning attacks. To address these pressing security concerns, this paper proposes a decentralized federated learning framework focusing on security, reliability, and efficiency, tailored to meet the sustainability demands of consumer electronics. The proposed framework is founded upon masking and secret sharing techniques, establishing an emphatic privacy-preserving federated learning framework that ensures the security of gradient data and robustness against participant dropouts. Additionally, we actively motivate high-quality participants to collaborate by incorporating an incentive mechanism. Building upon the enhancement of existing federated learning approaches reliant on masking techniques, the method outlined in this paper significantly reduces communication overhead while preserving accuracy. Empirical research results comprehensively substantiate the superiority of this approach. Furthermore, compared to prevalent blockchain-based federated learning methods, our approach makes noteworthy strides in accuracy and efficiency. IEEE
Multi-view projection methods have demonstrated their ability to reach state-of-the-art performance in point cloud downstream tasks(e.g., classification and retrieval). These methods first require rendering the point ...
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Multi-view projection methods have demonstrated their ability to reach state-of-the-art performance in point cloud downstream tasks(e.g., classification and retrieval). These methods first require rendering the point cloud into 2D multi-view images. However, conventional methods only project the geometry of the point cloud, and such projections inevitably suffer from a loss of point cloud semantic information due to dimensionality reduction. We propose a semantic-aware and task-oriented differentiable feature rendering (SFR), which reduces the information loss during projection by generating rendered images with more point cloud semantic information for downstream tasks. Our SFR method can be applied as a plug-and-play module added to any multi-view-based backbone network for end-to-end training. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets show that our SFR method reaches state-of-the-art performance and brings general improvements to point cloud classification and retrieval tasks.
Cryptocurrency is a new type of digital currency that utilizes blockchain technology and cryptography to achieve transparency, decentralization, and immutability. Bitcoin became the world’s first decentralized crypto...
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