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Read, Watch, and Move: Reinforcement Learning for Temporally Grounding Natural Language Descriptions in Videos
The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language
description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos.
Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire
video or exhaustively ranking all possible clip-sentence pairs in a
pre-segmented video, which inevitably suffer from exhaustively enumerated
candidates. To alleviate this problem, we formulate this task as a problem of
sequential decision making by learning an agent which regulates the temporal
grounding boundaries progressively based on its policy. Specifically, we
propose a reinforcement learning based framework improved by multi-task
learning and it shows steady performance gains by considering additional
supervised boundary information during training. Our proposed framework
achieves state-of-the-art performance on ActivityNet'18 DenseCaption dataset
and Charades-STA dataset while observing only 10 or less clips per video.Comment: AAAI 201
The Preparation and Hydrogen Storage Performances of Nanocrystalline and Amorphous Mg2Ni-Type Alloys
On the Wave Energy Assessment in the South China Sea
This paper presents a thirty year (1976-2005) assessment of wave energy resource within the South China Sea (SCS) by simulation. Significant wave height (SWH) between simulation and observation shows good agreement. This shows the reliability of an along-side simulated wave period in estimating wave energy in the SCS. Results show that estimates of wave power density are more reliable in the north-central SCS and most sufficient during winter. The annual mean wave power density peaked at 12.7kW/m and 12.9kW/m during years 1986 and 1999 respectively while the highest seasonal mean of 29kW/m occurred in year 1999 during winter. The wave power density is most stable in winter and is generally more stable in offshore regions of SCS. Wave power density is most stable in years 1976, 1997 and 2004 with stability values of 1.96, 1.98 and 1.9 respectively. The stability value of 0.9 in year 1980 is the greatest in the winter of all years. Relative-rich energy regions occupy the largest area during winter. The relatively richest energy is generally concentrated in the central and north-central SCS. No area is identified as a relative-rich energy region during spring. Winter 1999 has the highest relative-rich energy with value of 37kW/m
Indoor simultaneous localization and mapping based on fringe projection profilometry
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays an important role in
outdoor and indoor applications ranging from autonomous driving to indoor
robotics. Outdoor SLAM has been widely used with the assistance of LiDAR or
GPS. For indoor applications, the LiDAR technique does not satisfy the accuracy
requirement and the GPS signals will be lost. An accurate and efficient scene
sensing technique is required for indoor SLAM. As the most promising 3D sensing
technique, the opportunities for indoor SLAM with fringe projection
profilometry (FPP) systems are obvious, but methods to date have not fully
leveraged the accuracy and speed of sensing that such systems offer. In this
paper, we propose a novel FPP-based indoor SLAM method based on the coordinate
transformation relationship of FPP, where the 2D-to-3D descriptor-assisted is
used for mapping and localization. The correspondences generated by matching
descriptors are used for fast and accurate mapping, and the transform
estimation between the 2D and 3D descriptors is used to localize the sensor.
The provided experimental results demonstrate that the proposed indoor SLAM can
achieve the localization and mapping accuracy around one millimeter
Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio as predictive markers in hepatoblastoma
BackgroundThe neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) have been presented to be a prognostic indicator in several cancers. We were supposed to evaluate the prognostic role of such inflammatory markers in hepatoblastoma (HB).MethodsTotal of 101 children, diagnosed with hepatoblastoma between January 2010 and January 2018, were enrolled before treatment in the study. The clinicopathological parameters, and outcomes were collected through laboratory analyses and patient follow-up. The association between NLR, PLR, and clinicopathological characters were analyzed with Wilcoxon test, Chi-Squared test, Kaplan-Meier, Log-rank and Cox regression analyses.ResultsNLR and PLR were significantly elevated in HB patients (Pβ<β0.001), and related to age (Pβ<β0.001), risk stratification system (Pβ<β0.001), and pretreatment extent of disease (Pβ<β0.0001). NLR was significantly related to alpha-fetoprotein (Pβ=β0.034) and lactate dehydrogenase (Pβ=β0.026). The 3-year overall survival (OS) and event-free survival (EFS) were poor in the high-NLR group (OS: 44.3% vs. 90.3%, Pβ<β0.0001, EFS: 38.6% vs. 80.6%, Pβ=β0.0001). The 3-year OS and EFS were poor in the high-PLR group (OS: 49.1% vs. 68.8%, Pβ=β0.016, EFS: 39.6% vs. 64.6%, Pβ=β0.0117). The multivariate analysis suggested that NLR (HR: 11.359, 95% CI: 1.218β105.947; Pβ=β0.033) and risk stratification (HR: 44.905, 95% CI: 2.458β820.36; Pβ=β0.01), were independent predictors of OS.ConclusionOur research showed that elevated NLR and PLR were the poor prognostic factors in HB patients before treatment. The NLR was an independent prognostic factor for OS
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