194 research outputs found
A new approach to applying ancient style elements to modern Chinese choral music
Master of MusicDepartment of Music, Theatre, and DanceJoshua OppenheimJulie Yu OppenheimWhen Western music was introduced to China after the feudal government collapsed, Chinese compositions utilizing Western methods increased. In 1905, Li Shutong, who first introduced Western music theory to the Chinese, composed Spring Outing, which marked the beginning of a trend of Chinese choral writing. But for a long time, Chinese choirs stayed at the level of singing in unison or rounds. Nowadays, with the establishment of numerous chamber choruses and
community choruses, choral music has become one of the most popular music forms in China. In order to satisfy the increasing demand, composers began to find inspiration from Chinese traditional music or ethnic music. Thus, many different choral compositional styles were formed. This report will introduce one of the most popular styles, “ancient style”, and analyze two choral pieces in this style, in order to enhance understanding of Chinese choral music
An improved robust function correction-adaptive extended Kalman filtering algorithm for SOC estimation of lithium-ion batteries.
State of Charge (SOC) is one of the key indicators for evaluating the state of electric vehicles. In order to cope with the uncertainty of random noise in nonlinear systems, an improved robust function correction-adaptive extended Kalman filtering (RFC-AEKF) algorithm is proposed for SOC prediction. Using FFRLS method to verify the Dual Polarization model established in this paper. The robust function is an abstract method that describes system state noise and observation noise, and performs real-time correction, combined with adaptive methods to estimate SOC. The experimental results show that the proposed RFC-AEKF algorithm has the smallest mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean square error (RMSE) compared to other algorithms. Under the Beijing bus dynamic stress test (BJDST) conditions, the MAE and RMSE of the RFC-AEKF are 0.354% and 0.658%, respectively, indicating that the RFC-AEKF algorithm can improve SOC estimation accuracy and enhance robustness
Study on the Influencing Factors of Health Information Sharing Behavior of the Elderly under the Background of Normalization of Pandemic Situation
This study aims to solve the problem of unwise judgment, decisions, and correspondingly dangerous behaviors caused by error health information to the elderly. Based on the MOA model and self-determination theory, this paper constructs a health information sharing model for the elderly and analyzes it with Amos\u27s structural equation model. The study finds that media richness, health information literacy, perceived benefits, and negative emotions of the coronavirus epidemic positively influence health information sharing behavior. In contrast, perceived risks have a significant negative impact on health information sharing behavior. At the same time, media richness positively affects health information literacy, perceived benefits, and negative emotions of the coronavirus epidemic but has no significant impact on perceived risks. Health literacy positively affects perceived benefits but does not significantly affect the perceived risks and negative emotions of the coronavirus epidemic. This study aims to assist government and online social platforms in taking relevant measures under the background of normalization of the pandemic situation, controlling the spread of error health information among the elderly, and guiding the elderly to share health information better
Aligning Source Visual and Target Language Domains for Unpaired Video Captioning
Training supervised video captioning model requires coupled video-caption
pairs. However, for many targeted languages, sufficient paired data are not
available. To this end, we introduce the unpaired video captioning task aiming
to train models without coupled video-caption pairs in target language. To
solve the task, a natural choice is to employ a two-step pipeline system: first
utilizing video-to-pivot captioning model to generate captions in pivot
language and then utilizing pivot-to-target translation model to translate the
pivot captions to the target language. However, in such a pipeline system, 1)
visual information cannot reach the translation model, generating visual
irrelevant target captions; 2) the errors in the generated pivot captions will
be propagated to the translation model, resulting in disfluent target captions.
To address these problems, we propose the Unpaired Video Captioning with Visual
Injection system (UVC-VI). UVC-VI first introduces the Visual Injection Module
(VIM), which aligns source visual and target language domains to inject the
source visual information into the target language domain. Meanwhile, VIM
directly connects the encoder of the video-to-pivot model and the decoder of
the pivot-to-target model, allowing end-to-end inference by completely skipping
the generation of pivot captions. To enhance the cross-modality injection of
the VIM, UVC-VI further introduces a pluggable video encoder, i.e., Multimodal
Collaborative Encoder (MCE). The experiments show that UVC-VI outperforms
pipeline systems and exceeds several supervised systems. Furthermore, equipping
existing supervised systems with our MCE can achieve 4% and 7% relative margins
on the CIDEr scores to current state-of-the-art models on the benchmark MSVD
and MSR-VTT datasets, respectively.Comment: Published at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence (TPAMI
Reverse logistics pricing strategy for a green supply chain: a view of customers’ environmental awareness
The effectiveness of a reverse logistics strategy is contingent upon the successful execution of activities related to materials and product reuse. Green supply chain (GSC) in reverse logistics aims to minimize byproducts from ending up in landfills. This paper considers a retailer responsible for recycling and a manufacturer responsible for remanufacturing. Customer environmental awareness (CEA) is operationalized as customer word-of-mouth effect. We form three game theoretic models for two different scenarios with different pricing strategies, i.e. a non-cooperative pricing scenario based on Stackelberg equilibrium and Nash equilibrium, and a joint pricing scenario within a cooperative game model. The paper suggests that stakeholders are better off making their pricing and manufacturing decision in cooperation
MedGen3D: A Deep Generative Framework for Paired 3D Image and Mask Generation
Acquiring and annotating sufficient labeled data is crucial in developing
accurate and robust learning-based models, but obtaining such data can be
challenging in many medical image segmentation tasks. One promising solution is
to synthesize realistic data with ground-truth mask annotations. However, no
prior studies have explored generating complete 3D volumetric images with
masks. In this paper, we present MedGen3D, a deep generative framework that can
generate paired 3D medical images and masks. First, we represent the 3D medical
data as 2D sequences and propose the Multi-Condition Diffusion Probabilistic
Model (MC-DPM) to generate multi-label mask sequences adhering to anatomical
geometry. Then, we use an image sequence generator and semantic diffusion
refiner conditioned on the generated mask sequences to produce realistic 3D
medical images that align with the generated masks. Our proposed framework
guarantees accurate alignment between synthetic images and segmentation maps.
Experiments on 3D thoracic CT and brain MRI datasets show that our synthetic
data is both diverse and faithful to the original data, and demonstrate the
benefits for downstream segmentation tasks. We anticipate that MedGen3D's
ability to synthesize paired 3D medical images and masks will prove valuable in
training deep learning models for medical imaging tasks.Comment: Submitted to MICCAI 2023. Project Page:
https://krishan999.github.io/MedGen3D
Diffeomorphic Image Registration with Neural Velocity Field
Diffeomorphic image registration, offering smooth transformation and topology
preservation, is required in many medical image analysis tasks.Traditional
methods impose certain modeling constraints on the space of admissible
transformations and use optimization to find the optimal transformation between
two images. Specifying the right space of admissible transformations is
challenging: the registration quality can be poor if the space is too
restrictive, while the optimization can be hard to solve if the space is too
general. Recent learning-based methods, utilizing deep neural networks to learn
the transformation directly, achieve fast inference, but face challenges in
accuracy due to the difficulties in capturing the small local deformations and
generalization ability. Here we propose a new optimization-based method named
DNVF (Diffeomorphic Image Registration with Neural Velocity Field) which
utilizes deep neural network to model the space of admissible transformations.
A multilayer perceptron (MLP) with sinusoidal activation function is used to
represent the continuous velocity field and assigns a velocity vector to every
point in space, providing the flexibility of modeling complex deformations as
well as the convenience of optimization. Moreover, we propose a cascaded image
registration framework (Cas-DNVF) by combining the benefits of both
optimization and learning based methods, where a fully convolutional neural
network (FCN) is trained to predict the initial deformation, followed by DNVF
for further refinement. Experiments on two large-scale 3D MR brain scan
datasets demonstrate that our proposed methods significantly outperform the
state-of-the-art registration methods.Comment: WACV 202
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