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Predicting the remaining time before the next earthquake based on seismic signals generated in a laboratory setting is a challenging research task that is of significant importance for earthquake hazard assessment. In this study, we employed a mel spectrogram and the mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) to extract relevant features from seismic signals. Furthermore, we proposed a deep learning model with a hierarchical structure. This model combines the characteristics of long short-term memory (LSTM), one-dimensional convolutional neural networks (1D-CNN), and two-dimensional convolutional neural networks (2D-CNN). Additionally, we applied a stacking model fusion strategy, combining gradient boosting trees with deep learning models to achieve optimal performance. We compared the performance of the aforementioned feature extraction methods and related models for earthquake prediction. The results revealed a significant improvement in predictive performance when the mel spectrogram and stacking were introduced. Additionally, we found that the combination of 1D-CNN and 2D-CNN has unique advantages in handling time-series problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite pedestrian detectors having made significant progress by introducing convolutional neural networks, their performance still suffers degradation, especially in occlusion scenes with more false positives (FPs) and false negatives (FNs). To alleviate the problem, we propose a novel Sequential Attention-based Distinct Part Modeling (SA-DPM) for balanced pedestrian detection. It takes one step further in constructing more robust representation that supports detection with fewer FNs and FPs. Specifically, the Sequential Attention serves as one internal perception process that captures several distinct part areas step by step from each pedestrian proposal (full-body). Different from the previous either-or feature selection, the following Joint Learning attempts to seek a reasonable trade-off between part and full-body features, and combines both features for more accurate classification and regression. Evaluation on the widely used pedestrian datasets including Caltech and Citypersons shows that the proposed SA-DPM achieves promising performance for both non-occluded and occluded pedestrian detection tasks, especially on Caltech Heavy Occlusion set, which yields a new state-of-the-art miss rate by 30.18% and outperforms the second best detector by 6.32%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Video enhancement plays an important role in various video applications. In this paper, we propose a new intra-and-inter-constraint-based video enhancement approach aiming to: 1) achieve high intraframe quality of the entire picture where multiple regions-of-interest (ROIs) can be adaptively and simultaneously enhanced, and 2) guarantee the interframe quality consistencies among video frames. We first analyze features from different ROIs and create a piecewise tone mapping curve for the entire frame such that the intraframe quality can be enhanced. We further introduce new interframe constraints to improve the temporal quality consistency. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm obviously outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sketch retrieval aims at retrieving the most similar sketches from a large database based on one hand-drawn query. Successful retrieval hinges on an effective representation of sketch images and an efficient search method. In this paper, we propose a representation scheme which takes sketch strokes into account with local features, thereby facilitating efficient retrieval with codebooks. Stroke features are detected via densely sampled points on stroke lines with crucial corners as anchor points, from which local gradients are enhanced and described by a quantized histogram of gradients. A codebook is organized in a hierarchical vocabulary tree, which maintains structural information of visual words and enables efficient retrieval in sub-linear time. Experimental results on three data sets demonstrate the merits of the proposed algorithm for effective and efficient sketch retrieval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]