3 research outputs found
Transmission of sheep-bovine spongiform encephalopathy in pigs
The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) don´t occur in swine in natural conditions. However, the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent, inoculated by 3 simultaneous routes in pigs, is able to reproduce a neurological disease in these animals. On the other hand, the BSE agent after passage in sheep under experimental conditions (sheep-BSE) exhibits altered pathobiologic properties. This new agent is able to cross the cattle-pig transmission barrier more efficiently than BSE..
Who, Where, and What to Wear?
Fashion knowledge helps people to dress properly and addresses not only
physiological needs of users, but also the demands of social activities and
conventions. It usually involves three mutually related aspects of: occasion,
person and clothing. However, there are few works focusing on extracting such
knowledge, which will greatly benefit many downstream applications, such as
fashion recommendation. In this paper, we propose a novel method to
automatically harvest fashion knowledge from social media. We unify three tasks
of occasion, person and clothing discovery from multiple modalities of images,
texts and metadata. For person detection and analysis, we use the off-the-shelf
tools due to their flexibility and satisfactory performance. For clothing
recognition and occasion prediction, we unify the two tasks by using a
contextualized fashion concept learning module, which captures the dependencies
and correlations among different fashion concepts. To alleviate the heavy
burden of human annotations, we introduce a weak label modeling module which
can effectively exploit machine-labeled data, a complementary of clean data. In
experiments, we contribute a benchmark dataset and conduct extensive
experiments from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. The results
demonstrate the effectiveness of our model in fashion concept prediction, and
the usefulness of extracted knowledge with comprehensive analysis.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures, ACMMM 201