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Temporal Recurrent Networks for Online Action Detection
Most work on temporal action detection is formulated as an offline problem,
in which the start and end times of actions are determined after the entire
video is fully observed. However, important real-time applications including
surveillance and driver assistance systems require identifying actions as soon
as each video frame arrives, based only on current and historical observations.
In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Temporal Recurrent Network (TRN),
to model greater temporal context of a video frame by simultaneously performing
online action detection and anticipation of the immediate future. At each
moment in time, our approach makes use of both accumulated historical evidence
and predicted future information to better recognize the action that is
currently occurring, and integrates both of these into a unified end-to-end
architecture. We evaluate our approach on two popular online action detection
datasets, HDD and TVSeries, as well as another widely used dataset, THUMOS'14.
The results show that TRN significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art
Modelling the cAMP pathway using BioNessie, and the use of BVP techniques for solving ODEs (Poster Presentation)
Copyright @ 2007 Gu et al; licensee BioMed Central LtdBiochemists often conduct experiments in-vivo in order to explore observable behaviours and understand the dynamics of many intercellular and intracellular processes. However an intuitive understanding of their dynamics is hard to obtain because most pathways of interest involve components connected via interlocking loops. Formal methods for modelling and analysis of biochemical pathways are therefore indispensable. To this end, ODEs (ordinary differential equations) have been widely adopted as a method to model biochemical pathways because they have an unambiguous mathematical format and are amenable to rigorous quantitative analysis. BioNessie http://www.bionessie.com webcite is a workbench for the composition, simulation and analysis of biochemical networks which is being developed in by the Systems Biology team at the Bioinformatics Research Centre as a part of a large DTI funded project 'BPS: A Software Tool for the Simulation and Analysis of Biochemical Networks' http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/dti_beacon webcite. BioNessie is written in Java using NetBeans Platform libraries that makes it platform independent. The software employs specialised differential equations solvers for stiff and non-stiff systems to produce model simulation traces. BioNessie provides a user-friendly interfact that comes up with an intuitive tree-based graphical layout, an edition function to SBML-compatible models and feature of data output
Identifying First-person Camera Wearers in Third-person Videos
We consider scenarios in which we wish to perform joint scene understanding,
object tracking, activity recognition, and other tasks in environments in which
multiple people are wearing body-worn cameras while a third-person static
camera also captures the scene. To do this, we need to establish person-level
correspondences across first- and third-person videos, which is challenging
because the camera wearer is not visible from his/her own egocentric video,
preventing the use of direct feature matching. In this paper, we propose a new
semi-Siamese Convolutional Neural Network architecture to address this novel
challenge. We formulate the problem as learning a joint embedding space for
first- and third-person videos that considers both spatial- and motion-domain
cues. A new triplet loss function is designed to minimize the distance between
correct first- and third-person matches while maximizing the distance between
incorrect ones. This end-to-end approach performs significantly better than
several baselines, in part by learning the first- and third-person features
optimized for matching jointly with the distance measure itself
Implementation of a Speech Recognition Algorithm to Facilitate Verbal Commands for Visual Analytics Law Enforcement Toolkit
The VALET (Visual Analytics Law Enforcement Toolkit) system allows the user to visualize and predict crime hotspots and analyze crime data. Police officers have difficulty in using VALET in a mobile situation, since the system allows only conventional input interfaces (keyboard and mouse). This research focuses on introducing a new input interface to VALET in the form of speech recognition, which allows the user to interact with the software without losing functionality. First an Application Program Interface (API) that was compatible with the VALET system was found and initial code scripts to test its functionality were written. Next, the code scripts were integrated with the VALET and additional code was written to execute the commands given by the user. Lastly, more functionality was added by including a button and keywords to toggle speech recognition on/off, and a panel to display visual feedback to the user. The results from the research showed that it was easier to give simple commands by voice rather than typing them out. It helped the user with having a new way to interact with the system that was accurate but also convenient when on the move. The speech recognition was able to recognize the correct commands with a high rate of success. The implementation of the speech recognition function was able to help the police departments in interacting with the system effectively when conventional methods were not an option
Translocator protein in late stage Alzheimer\u27s disease and Dementia with Lewy bodies brains
OBJECTIVE: Increased translocator protein (TSPO), previously known as the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), in glial cells of the brain has been used as a neuroinflammation marker in the early and middle stages of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer\u27s disease (AD) and Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB). In this study, we investigated the changes in TSPO density with respect to late stage AD and DLB.
METHODS: TSPO density was measured in multiple regions of postmortem human brains in 20 different cases: seven late stage AD cases (Braak amyloid average: C; Braak tangle average: VI; Aged 74-88, mean: 83 ± 5 years), five DLB cases (Braak amyloid average: C; Braak tangle average: V; Aged 79-91, mean: 84 ± 4 years), and eight age-matched normal control cases (3 males, 5 females: aged 77-92 years; mean: 87 ± 6 years). Measurements were taken by quantitative autoradiography using [
RESULTS: No significant changes were found in TSPO density of the frontal cortex, striatum, thalamus, or red nucleus of the AD and DLB brains. A significant reduction in TSPO density was found in the substantia nigra (SN) of the AD and DLB brains compared to that of age-matched healthy controls.
INTERPRETATION: This distinct pattern of TSPO density change in late stage AD and DLB cases may imply the occurrence of microglia dystrophy in late stage neurodegeneration. Furthermore, TSPO may not only be a microglia activation marker in early stage AD and DLB, but TSPO may also be used to monitor microglia dysfunction in the late stage of these diseases
Magneto-optical properties of Co/ZnO multilayer films
Multilayer films of ZnO with Co were deposited on glass substrates then
annealed in a vacuum. The magnetisation of the films increased with annealing
but not the magnitude of the magneto-optical signals. The dielectric functions
for the films were calculated using the MCD spectra. A Maxwell Garnett theory
of a metallic Co/ZnO mixture is presented. The extent to which this explains
the MCD spectra taken on the films is discussed.Comment: This paper was presented at ICM (2009) and is accepted in this form
for the proceeding
A Spectral Method for Elliptic Equations: The Neumann Problem
Let be an open, simply connected, and bounded region in
, , and assume its boundary is smooth.
Consider solving an elliptic partial differential equation over with a Neumann boundary condition. The problem is converted
to an equivalent elliptic problem over the unit ball , and then a spectral
Galerkin method is used to create a convergent sequence of multivariate
polynomials of degree that is convergent to . The
transformation from to requires a special analytical calculation
for its implementation. With sufficiently smooth problem parameters, the method
is shown to be rapidly convergent. For
and assuming is a boundary, the convergence of
to zero is faster than any power of .
Numerical examples in and show experimentally
an exponential rate of convergence.Comment: 23 pages, 11 figure
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