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Temporal Interlacing Network
For a long time, the vision community tries to learn the spatio-temporal
representation by combining convolutional neural network together with various
temporal models, such as the families of Markov chain, optical flow, RNN and
temporal convolution. However, these pipelines consume enormous computing
resources due to the alternately learning process for spatial and temporal
information. One natural question is whether we can embed the temporal
information into the spatial one so the information in the two domains can be
jointly learned once-only. In this work, we answer this question by presenting
a simple yet powerful operator -- temporal interlacing network (TIN). Instead
of learning the temporal features, TIN fuses the two kinds of information by
interlacing spatial representations from the past to the future, and vice
versa. A differentiable interlacing target can be learned to control the
interlacing process. In this way, a heavy temporal model is replaced by a
simple interlacing operator. We theoretically prove that with a learnable
interlacing target, TIN performs equivalently to the regularized temporal
convolution network (r-TCN), but gains 4% more accuracy with 6x less latency on
6 challenging benchmarks. These results push the state-of-the-art performances
of video understanding by a considerable margin. Not surprising, the ensemble
model of the proposed TIN won the place in the ICCV19 - Multi Moments
in Time challenge. Code is made available to facilitate further research at
https://github.com/deepcs233/TINComment: Accepted to AAAI 2020. Winning entry of ICCV Multi-Moments in Time
Challenge 2019. Code is available at https://github.com/deepcs233/TI
Disease Localization in Multilayer Networks
We present a continuous formulation of epidemic spreading on multilayer
networks using a tensorial representation, extending the models of monoplex
networks to this context. We derive analytical expressions for the epidemic
threshold of the SIS and SIR dynamics, as well as upper and lower bounds for
the disease prevalence in the steady state for the SIS scenario. Using the
quasi-stationary state method we numerically show the existence of disease
localization and the emergence of two or more susceptibility peaks, which are
characterized analytically and numerically through the inverse participation
ratio. Furthermore, when mapping the critical dynamics to an eigenvalue
problem, we observe a characteristic transition in the eigenvalue spectra of
the supra-contact tensor as a function of the ratio of two spreading rates: if
the rate at which the disease spreads within a layer is comparable to the
spreading rate across layers, the individual spectra of each layer merge with
the coupling between layers. Finally, we verified the barrier effect, i.e., for
three-layer configuration, when the layer with the largest eigenvalue is
located at the center of the line, it can effectively act as a barrier to the
disease. The formalism introduced here provides a unifying mathematical
approach to disease contagion in multiplex systems opening new possibilities
for the study of spreading processes.Comment: Revised version. 25 pages and 18 figure
Anyone here? Smart embedded low-resolution omnidirectional video sensor to measure room occupancy
In this paper, we present a room occupancy sensing solution with unique
properties: (i) It is based on an omnidirectional vision camera, capturing rich
scene info over a wide angle, enabling to count the number of people in a room
and even their position. (ii) Although it uses a camera-input, no privacy
issues arise because its extremely low image resolution, rendering people
unrecognisable. (iii) The neural network inference is running entirely on a
low-cost processing platform embedded in the sensor, reducing the privacy risk
even further. (iv) Limited manual data annotation is needed, because of the
self-training scheme we propose. Such a smart room occupancy rate sensor can be
used in e.g. meeting rooms and flex-desks. Indeed, by encouraging flex-desking,
the required office space can be reduced significantly. In some cases, however,
a flex-desk that has been reserved remains unoccupied without an update in the
reservation system. A similar problem occurs with meeting rooms, which are
often under-occupied. By optimising the occupancy rate a huge reduction in
costs can be achieved. Therefore, in this paper, we develop such system which
determines the number of people present in office flex-desks and meeting rooms.
Using an omnidirectional camera mounted in the ceiling, combined with a person
detector, the company can intelligently update the reservation system based on
the measured occupancy. Next to the optimisation and embedded implementation of
such a self-training omnidirectional people detection algorithm, in this work
we propose a novel approach that combines spatial and temporal image data,
improving performance of our system on extreme low-resolution images
Perfect State Transfer, Effective Gates and Entanglement Generation in Engineered Bosonic and Fermionic Networks
We show how to achieve perfect quantum state transfer and construct effective
two-qubit gates between distant sites in engineered bosonic and fermionic
networks. The Hamiltonian for the system can be determined by choosing an
eigenvalue spectrum satisfying a certain condition, which is shown to be both
sufficient and necessary in mirror-symmetrical networks. The natures of the
effective two-qubit gates depend on the exchange symmetry for fermions and
bosons. For fermionic networks, the gates are entangling (and thus universal
for quantum computation). For bosonic networks, though the gates are not
entangling, they allow two-way simultaneous communications. Protocols of
entanglement generation in both bosonic and fermionic engineered networks are
discussed.Comment: RevTeX4, 6 pages, 1 figure; replaced with a more general example and
clarified the sufficient and necessary condition for perfect state transfe
Subjective Quality Evaluation of H.264 High-Definition Video Coding versus Spatial Up-Scaling and Interlacing
International audienceThe upcoming High-De nition format for video display provides high-quality content, especially when displayed on adapted devices. When combined with video coding techniques such as MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, the transmission of High-De nition video content on broadcast networks becomes possible. Nonetheless, transmitting and decoding such video content is a real challenge. Therefore, intermediate formats based on lower frame resolutions or interlaced coding are still provided to address targets with limited resources. Using these formats, the nal video quality depends on the postprocessing tools employed at the receiver to upsample and de-interlace these streams. In this paper, we compare the full-HD format to three possible scenarios to generate a full-HD stream from intermediate formats. We present the results of subjective tests that compare the visual quality of each scenario when using the same bitrate. The results show that using the same bitrate, the videos generated from lower-resolution formats reach similar quality compared to the full-HD videos
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