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Sequential Prediction of Social Media Popularity with Deep Temporal Context Networks
Prediction of popularity has profound impact for social media, since it
offers opportunities to reveal individual preference and public attention from
evolutionary social systems. Previous research, although achieves promising
results, neglects one distinctive characteristic of social data, i.e.,
sequentiality. For example, the popularity of online content is generated over
time with sequential post streams of social media. To investigate the
sequential prediction of popularity, we propose a novel prediction framework
called Deep Temporal Context Networks (DTCN) by incorporating both temporal
context and temporal attention into account. Our DTCN contains three main
components, from embedding, learning to predicting. With a joint embedding
network, we obtain a unified deep representation of multi-modal user-post data
in a common embedding space. Then, based on the embedded data sequence over
time, temporal context learning attempts to recurrently learn two adaptive
temporal contexts for sequential popularity. Finally, a novel temporal
attention is designed to predict new popularity (the popularity of a new
user-post pair) with temporal coherence across multiple time-scales.
Experiments on our released image dataset with about 600K Flickr photos
demonstrate that DTCN outperforms state-of-the-art deep prediction algorithms,
with an average of 21.51% relative performance improvement in the popularity
prediction (Spearman Ranking Correlation).Comment: accepted in IJCAI-1
Simultaneous Spectral-Spatial Feature Selection and Extraction for Hyperspectral Images
In hyperspectral remote sensing data mining, it is important to take into
account of both spectral and spatial information, such as the spectral
signature, texture feature and morphological property, to improve the
performances, e.g., the image classification accuracy. In a feature
representation point of view, a nature approach to handle this situation is to
concatenate the spectral and spatial features into a single but high
dimensional vector and then apply a certain dimension reduction technique
directly on that concatenated vector before feed it into the subsequent
classifier. However, multiple features from various domains definitely have
different physical meanings and statistical properties, and thus such
concatenation hasn't efficiently explore the complementary properties among
different features, which should benefit for boost the feature
discriminability. Furthermore, it is also difficult to interpret the
transformed results of the concatenated vector. Consequently, finding a
physically meaningful consensus low dimensional feature representation of
original multiple features is still a challenging task. In order to address the
these issues, we propose a novel feature learning framework, i.e., the
simultaneous spectral-spatial feature selection and extraction algorithm, for
hyperspectral images spectral-spatial feature representation and
classification. Specifically, the proposed method learns a latent low
dimensional subspace by projecting the spectral-spatial feature into a common
feature space, where the complementary information has been effectively
exploited, and simultaneously, only the most significant original features have
been transformed. Encouraging experimental results on three public available
hyperspectral remote sensing datasets confirm that our proposed method is
effective and efficient
Deformable Kernel Expansion Model for Efficient Arbitrary-shaped Scene Text Detection
Scene text detection is a challenging computer vision task due to the high
variation in text shapes and ratios. In this work, we propose a scene text
detector named Deformable Kernel Expansion (DKE), which incorporates the merits
of both segmentation and contour-based detectors. DKE employs a segmentation
module to segment the shrunken text region as the text kernel, then expands the
text kernel contour to obtain text boundary by regressing the vertex-wise
offsets. Generating the text kernel by segmentation enables DKE to inherit the
arbitrary-shaped text region modeling capability of segmentation-based
detectors. Regressing the kernel contour with some sampled vertices enables DKE
to avoid the complicated pixel-level post-processing and better learn contour
deformation as the contour-based detectors. Moreover, we propose an Optimal
Bipartite Graph Matching Loss (OBGML) that measures the matching error between
the predicted contour and the ground truth, which efficiently minimizes the
global contour matching distance. Extensive experiments on CTW1500, Total-Text,
MSRA-TD500, and ICDAR2015 demonstrate that DKE achieves a good tradeoff between
accuracy and efficiency in scene text detection
The Performance Matching of Inverter Room Air Conditioner
Some key parameter like suction superheat, compressor frequency, indoor and outdoor air volume, have been explored using simulation tools for the performance matching of the inverter room air conditioner. It was found that the all above parameters can be further optimized in every matching condition (including intermediate cooling, rated cooling, maximum cooling, middle heating and rated heating, etc.). The optimum range for all above parameter has been found and can be used in the variable frequency control module to ensure optimal overall performance of the system
A solution to persistent RFI in narrowband radio SETI: The MultiBeam Point-source Scanning strategy
Narrowband radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) in the 21st
century suffers severely from radio frequency interference (RFI), resulting in
a high number of false positives, and it could be the major reason why we have
not yet received any messages from space. We thereby propose a novel
observation strategy, called MultiBeam Point-source Scanning (MBPS), to
revolutionize the way RFI is identified in narrowband radio SETI and provide a
prominent solution to the current situation. The MBPS strategy is a simple yet
powerful method that sequentially scans over the target star with different
beams of a telescope, hence creating real-time references in the time domain
for cross-verification, thus potentially identifying all long-persistent RFI
with a level of certainty never achieved in any previous attempts. By applying
the MBPS strategy during the observation of TRAPPIST-1 with the FAST telescope,
we successfully identified all 16,645 received signals as RFI using the solid
criteria introduced by the MBPS strategy. Therefore we present the MBPS
strategy as a promising tool that should bring us much closer to the first
discovery of a genuine galactic greeting
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