In the future, management in smart societies will revolve around knowledge workers and the works they produce. This article is committed to explore new management framework, model, paradigm, and solution for organizin...
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In the future, management in smart societies will revolve around knowledge workers and the works they produce. This article is committed to explore new management framework, model, paradigm, and solution for organizing, managing, and measuring knowledge works. First, the parallel management framework is presented that would allow for the virtual-real interactions of humans in social space, robots in physical space, and digital humans in cyberspace to realize descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive intelligence for management. Then, the management foundation models are proposed by fusing scenarios engineering with artificial intelligence foundation models and cyber-physical-social systems. Moreover, the new management paradigm driven by decentralized autonomous organizations and operations is formulated for the advancement of smart organizations and intelligent operations. On these basis, the management operating systems that highlight features of simple intelligence, provable security, flexible scalability, and ecological harmony are finally put forward as new management solution.
Remora suckerfish and its hitch-hiking behavior bring enormous inspiration into the engineering field. In this article, a bioinspired hitch-hiking behavior is accomplished automatically by a robotic remora, which crea...
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Remora suckerfish and its hitch-hiking behavior bring enormous inspiration into the engineering field. In this article, a bioinspired hitch-hiking behavior is accomplished automatically by a robotic remora, which creates possibilities for prolonging its endurance and multirobot cooperation. First, the definition of the hitch-hiking task and the mechatronic design of robotic remora are introduced. Then, aiming at the hitch-hiking task, the LED-marker-based underwater visual localization method and planar state synchronization controller are developed. The localization method includes a complete framework from LED detection to marker pose optimization, which considers the refraction correction to improve the localization precision in water. The synchronization controller is decomposed into the lateral and longitudinal subcontrollers to overcome the challenges caused by underactuated dynamic. Besides, a finite state machine is designed to model the state and action transition during the hitch-hiking task. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The autonomous hitch-hiking task toward a moving host is successfully implemented by a robotic fish for the first time. Such results may offer valuable insights into the future autonomous operation of underwater robots.
In this article, we present a novel separate strategy to control the pitch attitude and the gliding direction for a biomimetic gliding robotic fish by the coordination of the external and internal control surfaces. Fi...
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In this article, we present a novel separate strategy to control the pitch attitude and the gliding direction for a biomimetic gliding robotic fish by the coordination of the external and internal control surfaces. First, we derive the gliding dynamics and hydrodynamics within the framework of the extended angle of attack (AOA), based on which the gliding model is decomposed into pitch and velocity terms. Next, the backstepping and model predictive controllers are designed to regulate pitch angle using a movable mass and an AOA using pectoral fins based on their control features, respectively. Further, extensive simulations encompassing separate control and path following with desired pitch attitude are conducted to verify the feasibility and superiority of the proposed control strategy. More importantly, to capture the real-time gliding states in practical environment, we develop a gliding measurement and control system. Through the system, the aquatic experiments are carried out to further verify the effectiveness of the proposed separate control strategy. The obtained results offer valuable insight into the development of complex motion control of the gliding robots, laying a solid foundation for diversified underwater missions besides visual perception and autonomous docking.
Multitask learning has led to great success in many deep learning applications during the last decade. However, recent experiments have demonstrated that the performance of multitask learning depends on how to balance...
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Multitask learning has led to great success in many deep learning applications during the last decade. However, recent experiments have demonstrated that the performance of multitask learning depends on how to balance the relationship between different tasks. Therefore, many approaches have been proposed to adjust per-task gradient directions or design a more appropriate task reweighting scheme based on task-level statistics. In this article, we discuss how to boost the performance of multitask learning by using more fine-grained sample gradient information. To this end, we propose the concept of sample gradient similarity, which measures the agreement between the sample gradient for a task and the true gradient. Based on this concept, greater weight is assigned to more consistent tasks and more robust training samples to improve the training process of multitask learning. Extensive experimental results show that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms on a series of challenging multitask datasets.
In order to cultivate children's computational thinking, researchers have developed many excellent programming systems. Among them, the tangible programming systems combined with graphic output have been widely ac...
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In order to cultivate children's computational thinking, researchers have developed many excellent programming systems. Among them, the tangible programming systems combined with graphic output have been widely accepted because of the intuitive input method and diversified visual feedback. However, few of them support collaborative learning or programming. Little is known about children's experiences, emotional states and behaviours on collaborative programming. Motivated by this gap, we present a novel tangible and collaborative enabled programming system named Lighters, which designed for children aged 7-10 and had two types of collaboration modes (block-based and role-based). We conducted an user experiment with 24 children, and collected physiological (EDA), questionnaire, video recording and interview data for analysis. Based on our experiment results, Lighters are effective in helping children learn to program collaboratively. In addition, Lighters can mobilize children's positive emotions and enthusiasm to learn programming. Compared with block-based collaboration, role-based collaboration is more likely to stimulate children's emotional states and has a better effect on learning programming.
Recently, part information of pedestrian images has been demonstrated to be effective for person re-identification (ReID), but the part interaction is ignored when using Transformer to learn long-range dependencies. I...
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Recently, part information of pedestrian images has been demonstrated to be effective for person re-identification (ReID), but the part interaction is ignored when using Transformer to learn long-range dependencies. In this article, we propose a novel transformer network named Completed Part Transformer (CPT) for person ReID, where we design the part transformer layer to learn the completed part interaction. The part transformer layer includes the intra-part layer and the part-global layer, where they consider long-range dependencies from the aspects of the intra-part interaction and the part-global interaction, simultaneously. Furthermore, in order to overcome the limitation of fixed number of the patch tokens in the transformer layer, we propose the Adaptive Refined Tokens (ART) module to focus on learning the interaction between the informative patch tokens in the pedestrian image, which improves the discrimination of the pedestrian representation. Extensive experimental results on four person ReID datasets, i.e., MSMT17, Market1501, DukeMTMC-reID, and CUHK03, demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a new state-of-the-art performance, e.g., it achieves 68.0% mAP and 84.6% Rank-1 accuracy on MSMT17.
As one of the most effective vehicles for ocean development and exploration,underwater gliding robots(UGRs)have the unique characteristics of low energy consumption and strong ***,by borrowing the motion principles of...
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As one of the most effective vehicles for ocean development and exploration,underwater gliding robots(UGRs)have the unique characteristics of low energy consumption and strong ***,by borrowing the motion principles of current underwater robots,a variety of novel UGRs have emerged with improving their maneuverability,concealment,and environmental friendliness,which significantly broadens the ocean *** this paper,we provide a comprehensive review of underwater gliding robots,including prototype design and their key *** the perspective of motion characteristics,we categorize the underwater gliding robots in terms of traditional underwater gliders(UGs),hybrid-driven UGs,bio-inspired UGs,thermal UGs,and ***,their buoyancy driven system,dynamic and energy model,and motion control are concluded with detailed ***,we have discussed the current critical issues and future *** review offers valuable insight into the development of next-generation underwater robots well-suited for various oceanic applications,and aims to gain more attention of researchers and engineers to this growing field.
Cross-modality person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to retrieve a query identity from red, green, blue (RGB) images or infrared (IR) images. Many approaches have been proposed to reduce the distribution gap between R...
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Cross-modality person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to retrieve a query identity from red, green, blue (RGB) images or infrared (IR) images. Many approaches have been proposed to reduce the distribution gap between RGB modality and IR modality. However, they ignore the valuable collaborative relationship between RGB modality and IR modality. Hybrid Mutual Learning (HML) for cross-modality person Re-ID is proposed, which builds the collaborative relationship by using mutual learning from the aspects of local features and triplet relation. Specifically, HML contains local-mean mutual learning and triplet mutual learning where they focus on transferring local representational knowledge and structural geometry knowledge so as to reduce the gap between RGB modality and IR modality. Furthermore, Hierarchical Attention Aggregation is proposed to fuse local feature maps and local feature vectors to enrich the information of the classifier input. Extensive experiments on two commonly used data sets, that is, SYSU-MM01 and RegDB verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Deep learning-based face recognition models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In contrast to general noises, the presence of imperceptible adversarial noises can lead to catastrophic errors in deep face recogniti...
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Deep learning-based face recognition models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In contrast to general noises, the presence of imperceptible adversarial noises can lead to catastrophic errors in deep face recognition models. The primary difference between adversarial noise and general noise lies in its specificity. Adversarial attack methods give rise to noises tailored to the characteristics of the individual image and recognition model at hand. Diverse samples and recognition models can engender specific adversarial noise patterns, which pose significant challenges for adversarial defense. Addressing this challenge in the realm of face recognition presents a more formidable endeavor due to the inherent nature of face recognition as an open set task. In order to tackle this challenge, it is imperative to employ customized processing for each individual input sample. Drawing inspiration from the biological immune system, which can identify and respond to various threats, this paper aims to create an artificial immune system to provide adversarial defense for face recognition. The proposed defense model incorporates the principles of antibody cloning, mutation, selection, and memory mechanisms to generate a distinct "antibody" for each input sample, wherein the term "antibody" refers to a specialized noise removal manner. Furthermore, we introduce a self-supervised adversarial training mechanism that serves as a simulated rehearsal of immune system invasions. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method, surpassing state-of-the-art adversarial defense methods. The source code is available here, or you can visit this website: https://***/RenMin1991/SIDE
Due to the popularity of group activities in social media,group recommendation becomes increasingly *** aims to pursue a list of preferred items for a target *** deep learning-based methods on group recommendation hav...
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Due to the popularity of group activities in social media,group recommendation becomes increasingly *** aims to pursue a list of preferred items for a target *** deep learning-based methods on group recommendation have focused on learning group representations from single interaction between groups and ***,these methods may suffer from data sparsity *** for the interaction between groups and users,there also exist other interactions that may enrich group representation,such as the interaction between groups and *** interactions,which take place in the range of a group,form a local view of a certain *** addition to local information,groups with common interests may also show similar tastes on ***,group representation can be conducted according to the similarity among groups,which forms a global view of a certain *** this paper,we propose a novel global and local information fusion neural network(GLIF)model for group *** GLIF,an attentive neural network(ANN)activates rich interactions among groups,users and items with respect to forming a group′s local ***,our model also leverages ANN to obtain a group′s global representation based on the similarity among different ***,it fuses global and local representations based on attention mechanism to form a group′s comprehensive ***,group recommendation is conducted under neural collaborative filtering(NCF)*** experiments on three public datasets demonstrate its superiority over the state-of-the-art methods for group recommendation.
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