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Paper cooperation network embodies expert topic similarity in an extent, thus, a novel method is proposed for expert topic analysis and extraction by combining paper cooperation network and topic model. In the method, we extract each paper’ author information and construct an expert cooperation network. At the same time, by means of LDA model, a probabilistic topic model is also built to analyze papers’ latent topics. Then, by making full use of the feature that adjacent nodes in the expert cooperation network share similar themes distribution, we makes a constraint on expert topic distribution in Gibbs sampling process of solving the probabilistic topic model. Experimental results on NIPS dataset show that the proposed method can effectively extract expert topics, and the expert paper cooperation network plays a very good supporting role on the extracting task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

3D human motion prediction, predicting future poses from a given sequence, is an issue of great significance and challenge in computer vision and machine intelligence, which can help machines in understanding human behaviors. Due to the increasing development and understanding of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and the availability of large-scale human motion datasets, the human motion prediction has been remarkably advanced with a surge of interest among academia and industrial community. In this context, a comprehensive survey on 3D human motion prediction is conducted for the purpose of retrospecting and analyzing relevant works from existing released literature. In addition, a pertinent taxonomy is constructed to categorize these existing approaches for 3D human motion prediction. In this survey, relevant methods are categorized into three categories: human pose representation , network structure design , and prediction target. We systematically review all relevant journal and conference papers in the field of human motion prediction since 2015, which are presented in detail based on proposed categorizations in this survey. Furthermore, the outline for the public benchmark datasets, evaluation criteria, and performance comparisons are respectively presented in this paper. The limitations of the state-of-the-art methods are discussed as well, hoping for paving the way for future explorations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tackles the event-triggering filtering problem for a class of nonlinear networked control systems subject to the prescribed disturbance attenuation level. To alleviate the data transmission burden of communication channels, an event-triggering mechanism is adopted, where the data can be transmitted only if certain condition is fulfilled. The T-S fuzzy model approach is utilized to approximate the nonlinear dynamics. It is the purpose of this paper to design a filter for the addressed nonlinear system ensuring that the filtering error system is asymptotically stable whereas the prespecified H ∞ criterion is guaranteed. By using Lyapunov approach in combination with matrix analysis method, the sufficient conditions are established for the existence of desired filtering parameters in terms of the solvability of certain linear matrix inequalities. Finally, a numerical simulation example is put forward to demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the developed theoretical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Automatic identity recognition from ear images is an active research topic in the biometric community. The ability to secretly acquire images of the ear remotely and the stability of the ear shape over time make this technology a promising alternative for surveillance, authentication, and forensic applications. In recent years, significant research has been conducted in this area. Nevertheless, challenges remain that limit the commercial use of this technology. Several phases of the ear recognition system have been studied in the literature, from ear detection, normalization, and feature extraction to classification. This paper reviews the most recent methods used to describe and classify biometric features of the ear. We propose a first taxonomy to group existing approaches to ear recognition, including 2D, 3D, and combined 2D and 3D methods, as well as an overview of historical advances in this field. It is well known that data and algorithms are the essential components in biometrics, particularly in-ear recognition. However, early ear recognition datasets were very limited and collected in laboratory with controlled environments. With the wider use of deep neural networks, a considerable amount of training data has become necessary if acceptable ear recognition performance is to be achieved. As a consequence, current ear recognition datasets have increased significantly in size. This paper gives an overview of the chronological evolution of ear recognition datasets and compares the performance of conventional vs. deep learning methods on several datasets. We proposed a second taxonomy to classify the existing databases, including 2D, 3D, and video ear datasets. Finally, some open challenges and trends are debated for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frequent state monitoring and controller updates can enhance the precision of tracking control, while simultaneously overburdening the communication network transmission. In this paper, For the purpose of saving communication costs, we propose event-triggered control algorithms for the optimal tracking control problem. First, we reconstruct the discrete-time nonlinear system into a converted system. Then, the adaptive dynamic programming algorithm is employed to find the optimal controller off-line, and the event-triggered scheme is used to reduce the communication costs online. Novel triggering conditions with fewer assumptions are designed to implement the event-triggered scheme. Different from existing works, the event-triggered scheme can be introduced not only into the converted system but also into the actual system, which is more practical because the actual controller is what one can only access in practice. In addition, with the developed algorithms, the tracking error can be proved to be stable at the origin, in other words, the actual system can be guaranteed to track the desired trajectory. Algorithms developed in this paper are implemented by three neural networks, the model network, the action network and the critic network. Finally, examples are presented to verify the effectiveness and rationality of the algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• This is a comprehensive review of Transformer for Skeleton-based Action Recognition. • This paper proposes a new taxonomy of transformer-style techniques. • This survey aims to help researchers systematically select promising future directions. Skeleton-based action recognition has rapidly become one of the most popular and essential research topics in computer vision. The task is to analyze the characteristics of human joints and accurately classify their behaviors through deep learning technology. Skeleton provides numerous unique advantages over other data modalities, such as robustness, compactness, noise immunity, etc. In particular, the skeleton modality is extremely lightweight, which is especially beneficial for deep learning research in low-resource environments. Due to the non-European nature of skeleton data, Graph Convolution Network (GCN) has become mainstream in the past few years, leveraging the benefits of processing topological information. However, with the explosive development of transformer methods in natural language processing and computer vision, many works have applied transformer into the field of skeleton action recognition, breaking the accuracy monopoly of GCN. Therefore, we conduct a survey using transformer method for skeleton-based action recognition, forming of a taxonomy on existing works. This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the recent transformer techniques for skeleton action recognition, proposes a taxonomy of transformer-style techniques for action recognition, conducts a detailed study on benchmark datasets, compares the algorithm accuracy of standard methods, and finally discusses the future research directions and trends. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to describe skeleton-based action recognition techniques in the style of transformers and to suggest novel recognition taxonomies in a review. We are confident that Transformer-based action recognition technology will become mainstream in the near future, so this survey aims to help researchers systematically learn core tasks, select appropriate datasets, understand current challenges, and select promising future directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Machine learning based decision making systems in safety critical areas place high demands on the accuracy and generalization ability of the underlying model. A common strategy to deal with uncertainties and possible mistakes is offered by learning with reject option, i.e. a model can refrain from prediction in ambiguous cases and leave the decision to a human expert. Yet, as for the models themselves, human decision-making is hampered by the fact that reject options are often implemented as black-box rules: Experts cannot readily understand the reasons for rejection. In this work, we propose a model-agnostic framework that enriches classification with reject option by explanation mechanisms. More specifically, we combine conformal prediction as a popular mathematically based technology of certainty estimation with local surrogates derived for the region of interest. This allows us to provide local explanations in terms of example-based explanation methods, including counterfactual, semi-factual, and factual methods. We demonstrate the performance of this technology through a series of benchmarks using 6 different data sets; the associated code is open source. 1 1 This article represents a substantially extended version of the conference paper Artelt et al. (2022). In addition to a more detailed explanation and derivation of the algorithms, we explore semi-factual and factual explanation methods and provide evaluations on realistic benchmark data sets. • New challenge for XAI: explain model uncertainty and reject option • Efficient realization based on counterfactual explanation of local surrogate. • Open source implementation and evaluation on benchmarks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• A linearly combined form of the objective is reformulated to control the trade-off between the return and the divergence more effectively. • An improved proximal policy optimization method (i.e., alphaPPO) is proposed, with a more elaborative alpha divergence for two adjacent policies. • The effectiveness of our alphaPPO is validated using detailed experimental comparison and analysis for six benchmark environments. Proximal policy optimization (PPO) is a recent advancement in reinforcement learning, which is formulated as an unconstrained optimization problem including two terms: accumulative discount return and Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence. Currently, there are three PPO versions: primary, adaptive, and clipping. The most widely used PPO algorithm is the clipping version, in which the KL divergence is replaced by a clipping function to measure the difference between two policies indirectly. In this paper, we revisit this primary PPO and improve it in two aspects. One is to reformulate it as a linearly combined form to control the trade-off between two terms. The other is to substitute a parametric alpha divergence for KL divergence to measure the difference of two policies more effectively. This novel PPO variant is referred to as alphaPPO in this paper. Experiments on six benchmark environments verify the effectiveness of our alphaPPO, compared with clipping and combined PPOs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conventional convergence analysis on mini-batch learning is usually based on the stochastic gradient concept, in which we assume that the training data are presented in a random order. Also, some convergence results require that the learning rate should decrease with the number of training cycles, and that the objective function is a smooth function. Practically speaking, a deterministic presentation scheme with a fixed learning rate is more preferable. Hence, there is a gap between theoretical results and actual implementation. This paper aims at filling the gap. We use the radial basis function (RBF) model for nonlinear regression problems as an example to analyze the convergence properties of mini-batch learning. This paper considers a nonsmooth objective function, which consists of three terms. The coexistence of these three terms is able to handle a number of situations. The first term is a conventional training set error. The second term is a quadratic term which is used to suppress the effect of imperfections in the implementation. The last term is an ℓ 1 -norm term which is used to select important RBF nodes for the resultant network. Note that the ℓ 1 -norm term is a nonsmooth function. Although a nonsmooth ℓ 1 -norm is included and the mini-batch algorithm is deterministic, we are still able to derive the convergence properties, including the sufficient conditions for convergence and range of learning rate. With our results, we have a better theoretical understanding on the behaviour of mini-batch learning and obtain some guidelines on choosing the learning rate. The analysis results can be extended to other flat structural neural network models and other objective functions, which are with quadratic terms and ℓ 1 -norm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• A novel global optimization algorithm, rime optimization algorithm (RIME), is proposed. • RIME simulates the growth and crossover behavior of the rime-particle population. • The performance of RIME is adequately discussed based on benchmark functions. • RIME has better convergence accuracy and speed compared to other methods. • RIME is applied to solving five practical engineering optimization problems. This paper proposes an efficient optimization algorithm based on the physical phenomenon of rime-ice, called the RIME. The RIME algorithm implements the exploration and exploitation behaviors in the optimization methods by simulating the soft-rime and hard-rime growth process of rime-ice and constructing a soft-rime search strategy and a hard-rime puncture mechanism. Meanwhile, the greedy selection mechanism in the algorithm is improved, and the population is updated in the stage of selecting the optimal solution to enhance the exploitation capability of the RIME. In the experimental, this paper conducts qualitative analysis experiments on the RIME to clarify the characteristics of the algorithm in the process of finding the optimal solution. The performance of RIME is then tested on a total of 42 functions in the classic IEEE CEC2017 and the latest IEEE CEC2022 test sets. The proposed algorithm is compared with 10 well-established algorithms and 10 latest improved algorithms to verify its performance advantage. In addition, this paper designs experiments for the parametric analysis of RIME to discuss the potential of the algorithm in running different parameters and handling different problems. Finally, this paper applies RIME to five practical engineering problems to verify its effectiveness and superiority in real-world problems. The statistical and comparison results show that the RIME is a strong and competitive algorithm. The source code of the RIME 1 1 Source codes of RIME algorithm are also available at: https://codeocean.com/capsule/4472937/tree and https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/124610-rime-a-physics-based-optimization and https://github.com/aliasgharheidaricom/RIME-A-physics-based-optimization. algorithm and associated files are publicly accessible at https://aliasgharheidari.com/RIME.html. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Numerous visual domain adaptation methods have been proposed for transferring knowledge from a well-labeled source domain to an unlabeled but related target domain. Most of existing works are only geared to closed set domain adaptation, where an identical label space is shared between two domains. In this paper, we focus on a more realistic but challenging scenario, open set domain adaptation, where the target domain contains unknown classes that do not appear in the label space of source domain. The main task of open set domain adaptation is to simultaneously recognize the target images of known classes and those of unknown classes correctly. To achieve this goal, in this paper, we propose a novel open set domain adaptation method, which consists of two parts: latent structure discovery and kernelized classifier learning. In the first part, we employ an adaptive discriminative graph learning strategy to capture the intrinsic manifold structure of the source and target domain data in the latent feature space, such that the boundaries among all classes will be delineated more clearly. In the second part, the samples from the latent feature space are mapped into a high-dimensional kernel space to make them linearly separable, and a linear classifier is learned by jointly operating unknown target samples separating, known samples matching and local structure preserving. As the optimization problem is not convex with all variables, we devise an efficient iterative algorithm to solve it. The extensive experimental results on five image datasets confirm the superiority of the proposed method compared with the state-of-the-art traditional and deep competitors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing availability of remote sensing data allows dealing with spatial-spectral limitations by means of pan-sharpening methods. However, fusing inter-sensor data poses important challenges, in terms of resolution differences, sensor-dependent deformations and ground-truth data availability, that demand more accurate pan-sharpening solutions. In response, this paper proposes a novel deep learning-based pan-sharpening model which is termed as the double-U network for self-supervised pan-sharpening (W-NetPan). In more details, the proposed architecture adopts an innovative W-shape that integrates two U-Net segments which sequentially work for spatially matching and fusing inter-sensor multi-modal data. In this way, a synergic effect is produced where the first segment resolves inter-sensor deviations while stimulating the second one to achieve a more accurate data fusion. Additionally, a joint loss formulation is proposed for effectively training the proposed model without external data supervision. The experimental comparison, conducted over four coupled Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 datasets, reveals the advantages of W-NetPan with respect to several of the most important state-of-the-art pan-sharpening methods available in the literature. The codes related to this paper will be available at https://github.com/rufernan/WNetPan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• We focus on the data dilemma encountered in the field of human activity understanding, solve practical application problems from a new perspective, and use the proposed method to reduce the model's dependence on data. • We construct a human physical activity dataset containing 10 categories Human SA-10 for use in human activity understanding research. • A Core-Weight Entropy data information evaluation method that can be applied to human behavior recognition tasks is proposed. On Human SA-10, our method can reduce data usage by 50%. Compared to other methods, this method achieved state-of-the-art performance. • In addition, we propose a new unlabeled data redundancy information removal module, which effectively avoids introducing similar data into the training set. With the development of computer vision, the research on human activity understanding has been greatly promoted. The recognition algorithm based on vision transformer has made some achievements in a large number of computer vision tasks, but it still needs to be driven by a large amount of data. How to get rid of the constraints of large amounts of data is crucial for human behavior recognition based on vision transformer. This paper focuses on solving the dilemma of big data, and tries to achieve a high-performance model through a small amount of high information human activity data. The advantage of our work is that by studying feature distribution, we proposed a core weight entropy data information evaluation method for obtaining high information data, and through redundant information elimination strategy, we can avoid introducing similar data. A large number of experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared with existing methods, our method reduces the data consumption by 5% to 30%, and can achieve the performance of using only 50% of 100% data. More importantly, the data our method selected has no redundancy, which is not available in other methods. In addition, we carried out a large number of ablation experiments to prove the rationality of the method. The work of this paper solves the challenge of relying on a large amount of data when using the visual converter to recognize human behavior, which is of practical significance for realizing efficient human activity understanding research with low data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[Display omitted] • The dense feature adaptive connection module improves the quality of depth map. • The distributed 3D convolution reduces the computational cost and memory space. • The joint loss function makes the network sensitive to small depth structures. The goal of Multi-View Stereo is to reconstruct the 3D point cloud model from multiple views. With the development of deep learning, more and more learning-based research has achieved remarkable results. However, existing methods ignore the fine-grained features of the bottom layer, which leads to the poor quality of model reconstruction, especially in terms of completeness. Besides, current methods still rely on a large amount of consumed memory resources because of the application of 3D convolution. To this end, this paper proposes a Multiple Granularities Feature Fusion Network for Multi-View Stereo, an end-to-end depth estimation network combining global and local features, which is characterized by fine-granularity multi-feature fusion. Firstly, we propose a dense feature adaptive connection module, which can adaptively fuse the global and local features in the scene, provide a more complete and effective feature map for inferring a more detailed depth map, and make the ultimate model more complete. Secondly, in order to further improve the accuracy and completeness of the reconstructed point cloud, we introduce normal and edge loss futead of only using depth loss functions as in the existing methods, which makes the network more sensitive to small depth structures. Finally, we propose distributed 3D convolution instead of traditional 3D convolution, which reduces memory consumption. The experimental results on the DTU and Tanks & Temples datasets demonstrate that the proposed method in this papaer achieves the state-of-the-art performance, which proves the accuracy and effectiveness of the MG-MVSNet proposed in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the synchronization of complex dynamic networks with time-varying delay and general semi-Markovian jump. The general transition rates include completely unknown and uncertain but bounded as two special cases. First, by introducing auxiliary vectors with a few nonorthogonal polynomials, two free-matrix-based integral inequalities are developed, which encompass some existing ones as special cases. Second, an integral- based delay-product-type Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is constructed, which fully considers the information of time delay. By utilizing a deley-dependent controller, two sufficient conditions are derived to realize the global stochastic mean-square synchronization by employing the established inequalities to evaluate the infinitesimal generator of the functional. This paper takes all possibilities into consideration and divides the general transition rates into five cases, which is never investigated before. Finally a numerical example is given to show the effectiveness and practicality of the presented method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]