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Multi-Instance dictionary learning for detecting abnormal events in surveillance videos
In this paper, a novel method termed Multi-Instance Dictionary Learning (MIDL) is presented for detecting abnormal events in crowded video scenes. With respect to multi-instance learning, each event (video clip) in videos is modeled as a bag containing several sub-events (local observations); while each sub-event is regarded as an instance. The MIDL jointly learns a dictionary for sparse representations of sub-events (instances) and multi-instance classifiers for classifying events into normal or abnormal. We further adopt three different multi-instance models, yielding the Max-Pooling-based MIDL (MP-MIDL), Instance-based MIDL (Inst-MIDL) and Bag-based MIDL (Bag-MIDL), for detecting both global and local abnormalities. The MP-MIDL classifies observed events by using bag features extracted via max-pooling over sparse representations. The Inst-MIDL and Bag-MIDL classify observed events by the predicted values of corresponding instances. The proposed MIDL is evaluated and compared with the state-of-the-art methods for abnormal event detection on the UMN (for global abnormalities) and the UCSD (for local abnormalities) datasets and results show that the proposed MP-MIDL and Bag-MIDL achieve either comparable or improved detection performances. The proposed MIDL method is also compared with other multi-instance learning methods on the task and superior results are obtained by the MP-MIDL scheme. </jats:p
Policy Contrastive Imitation Learning
Adversarial imitation learning (AIL) is a popular method that has recently
achieved much success. However, the performance of AIL is still unsatisfactory
on the more challenging tasks. We find that one of the major reasons is due to
the low quality of AIL discriminator representation. Since the AIL
discriminator is trained via binary classification that does not necessarily
discriminate the policy from the expert in a meaningful way, the resulting
reward might not be meaningful either. We propose a new method called Policy
Contrastive Imitation Learning (PCIL) to resolve this issue. PCIL learns a
contrastive representation space by anchoring on different policies and
generates a smooth cosine-similarity-based reward. Our proposed representation
learning objective can be viewed as a stronger version of the AIL objective and
provide a more meaningful comparison between the agent and the policy. From a
theoretical perspective, we show the validity of our method using the
apprenticeship learning framework. Furthermore, our empirical evaluation on the
DeepMind Control suite demonstrates that PCIL can achieve state-of-the-art
performance. Finally, qualitative results suggest that PCIL builds a smoother
and more meaningful representation space for imitation learning
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Quantification of atherosclerotic plaque volume in coronary arteries by computed tomographic angiography in subjects with and without diabetes.
BackgroundDiabetes mellitus (DM) is considered a cardiovascular risk factor. The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence and volume of coronary artery plaque in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) vs. those without DM.MethodsThis study recruited consecutive patients who underwent coronary computed tomography (CT) angiography (CCTA) between October 2016 and November 2017. Personal information including conventional cardiovascular risk factors was collected. Plaque phenotypes were automatically calculated for volume of different component. The volume of different plaque was compared between DM patients and those without DM.ResultsAmong 6381 patients, 931 (14.59%) were diagnosed with DM. The prevalence of plaque in DM subjects was higher compared with nondiabetic group significantly (48.34% vs. 33.01%, χ = 81.84, P < 0.001). DM was a significant risk factor for the prevalence of plaque in a multivariate model (odds ratio [OR] = 1.465, 95% CI: 1.258-1.706, P < 0.001). The volume of total plaque and any plaque subtypes in the DM subjects was greater than those in nondiabetic patients significantly (P < 0.001).ConclusionThe coronary artery atherosclerotic plaques were significantly higher in diabetic patients than those in non-diabetic patients
Analytical Studies on a Modified Nagel-Schreckenberg Model with the Fukui-Ishibashi Acceleration Rule
We propose and study a one-dimensional traffic flow cellular automaton model
of high-speed vehicles with the Fukui-Ishibashi-type (FI) acceleration rule for
all cars, and the Nagel-Schreckenberg-type (NS) stochastic delay mechanism. By
using the car-oriented mean field theory, we obtain analytically the
fundamental diagrams of the average speed and vehicle flux depending on the
vehicle density and stochastic delay probability. Our theoretical results,
which may contribute to the exact analytical theory of the NS model, are in
excellent agreement with numerical simulations.Comment: 3 pages previous; now 4 pages 2 eps figure
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