An Open Source Quantitative Evaluation Framework for Automatic Video Summarization Algorithms

The creation, consumption, and manipulation of video play a central role in everyday life as the amount of video data is growing at an exponential rate. Video summarization consists on producing a condensed output from a video that allows humans to rapidly understand and browse the content of the original source. Although there are several evaluation approaches proposed in the literature, multiple challenges make the quantitative evaluation of a summarization a complex process. In this paper we present a completely open video summarization evaluation framework that is compatible with existing datasets and published results. Standard metrics are considered and a new metric that captures unbalanced-class video summarization evaluation is proposed. Two legacy datasets are integrated in a standard format. Finally, new quantitative results based on already published algorithms are presented.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

An Open Source Quantitative Evaluation Framework for Automatic Video Summarization Algorithms

The creation, consumption, and manipulation of video play a central role in everyday life as the amount of video data is growing at an exponential rate. Video summarization consists on producing a condensed output from a video that allows humans to rapidly understand and browse the content of the original source. Although there are several evaluation approaches proposed in the literature, multiple challenges make the quantitative evaluation of a summarization a complex process. In this paper we present a completely open video summarization evaluation framework that is compatible with existing datasets and published results. Standard metrics are considered and a new metric that captures unbalanced-class video summarization evaluation is proposed. Two legacy datasets are integrated in a standard format. Finally, new quantitative results based on already published algorithms are presented.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

CHK1 expression in gastric cancer is modulated by p53 and RB1/E2F1: implications in chemo/radiotherapy response

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.-- et al.Radiation has a limited but relevant role in the adjuvant therapy of gastric cancer (GC) patients. Since Chk1 plays a critical function in cellular response to genotoxic agents, we aimed to analyze the role of Chk1 in GC as a biomarker for radiotherapy resistance. We analyzed Chk1 expression in AGS and MKN45 human GC cell lines by RT-QPCR and WB and in a small cohort of human patient's samples. We demonstrated that Chk1 overexpression specifically increases resistance to radiation in GC cells. Accordingly, abrogation of Chk1 activity with UCN-01 and its expression with shChk1 increased sensitivity to bleomycin and radiation. Furthermore, when we assessed Chk1 expression in human samples, we found a correlation between nuclear Chk1 accumulation and a decrease in progression free survival. Moreover, using a luciferase assay we found that Chk1's expression is controlled by p53 and RB/E2F1 at the transcriptional level. Additionally, we present preliminary data suggesting a posttranscriptional regulation mechanism, involving miR-195 and miR-503, which are inversely correlated with expression of Chk1 in radioresistant cells. In conclusion, Chk1/microRNA axis is involved in resistance to radiation in GC, and suggests Chk1 as a potential tool for optimal stratification of patients susceptible to receive adjuvant radiotherapy after surgery.This work was supported by Instituto de Salud Carlos III–Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria (PS09/1988 to ISP; PI11-00949, pI014-1495 and Feder Funds to RP); Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (CCG10-UAM/BIO-5871 to ISP); Fundación Leticia Castillejo Castillo and Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (SAF2012-30862 to RSP), Spain. JBI was supported by a fellowship from Catedra Isaac Costero, funded by Banco Santander UAM and is a doctoral student from a double doctorate program in Molecular Biosciences (UAM) and in Biomedical Sciences, (UNAM) and received fellowship CVU:607546 from CONACYT.Peer Reviewe

Riesgos ergonómicos en la salud de los trabajadores de un centro piscícola

In this study we evaluated the ergonomic risks in workers' health Fish Farming Center. The sample universe consisted of the 15 workers of Motil Fish Farming Center, Department of La Libertad, Peru. Samples were taken every month. The methods used to assess ergonomic ergonomic risk were: Job Strain Index (JSI), Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) and Oako Working Analysis System (OWAS). The Results demonstrated by the methods of JSI and REBA that selection and maintenance activities are generating greater risks, and, according to the method OWAS, the activity that generates higher risks is that of selection, followed by selection activities of gravid females and maintenance. It was concluded that the activities that need immediate corrective measures are the selection and maintenance.En esta investigación se evaluaron los riesgos ergonómicos en la salud de los trabajadores de un Centro Piscícola. El universo muestral estuvo constituido por 15 trabajadores del Centro Piscícola de Motil, Departamento de La Libertad, Perú. Los muestreos se realizaron mes a mes. Los métodos ergonómicos empleados para evaluar el riesgo ergonómico fueron: Job Strain Index (JSI), Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) y Ovako Working Análysis System (OWAS). Los resultados demostraron según los métodos de JSI y REBA que las actividades de selección y mantenimiento son las que generan mayores riesgos; y, según el método OWAS, la actividad que genera mayores riesgos es el de selección, seguido por las actividades de selección de hembras grávidas y mantenimiento. Se concluyó que las actividades que necesitan medidas correctivas inmediatas son la selección y mantenimiento

Exploring modulated detection transformer as a tool for action recognition in videos

During recent years transformers architectures have been growing in popularity. Modulated Detection Transformer (MDETR) is an end-to-endmulti-modal understanding model that performs tasks such as phase grounding, referring expression comprehension, referring expression segmentation, andvisual question answering. One remarkable aspect of the model is the capacity to infer over classes that it was not previously trained for. In this work we explore the use of MDETR in a new task, action detection, without any previous training. We obtain quantitative results using the Atomic Visual Actions dataset.Although the model does not report the best performance in the task, we believe that it is an interesting finding. We show that it is possible to use a multi-modal model to tackle a task that it was not designed for. Finally, we believe that this line of research may lead into the generalization of MDETR in additionaldownstream tasks.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

CHK1 expression in gastric cancer is modulated by p53 and RB1/E2F1: Implications in chemo/radiotherapy response

Radiation has a limited but relevant role in the adjuvant therapy of gastric cancer (GC) patients. Since Chk1 plays a critical function in cellular response to genotoxic agents, we aimed to analyze the role of Chk1 in GC as a biomarker for radiotherapy resistance. We analyzed Chk1 expression in AGS and MKN45 human GC cell lines by RT-QPCR and WB and in a small cohort of human patient’s samples. We demonstrated that Chk1 overexpression specifically increases resistance to radiation in GC cells. Accordingly, abrogation of Chk1 activity with UCN-01 and its expression with shChk1 increased sensitivity to bleomycin and radiation. Furthermore, when we assessed Chk1 expression in human samples, we found a correlation between nuclear Chk1 accumulation and a decrease in progression free survival. Moreover, using a luciferase assay we found that Chk1’s expression is controlled by p53 and RB/E2F1 at the transcriptional level. Additionally, we present preliminary data suggesting a posttranscriptional regulation mechanism, involving miR-195 and miR-503, which are inversely correlated with expression of Chk1 in radioresistant cells. In conclusion, Chk1/microRNA axis is involved in resistance to radiation in GC, and suggests Chk1 as a potential tool for optimal stratification of patients susceptible to receive adjuvant radiotherapy after surgeryThis work was supported by Instituto de Salud Carlos III–Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria (PS09/1988 to ISP; PI11-00949, pI014-1495 and Feder Funds to RP); Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (CCG10-UAM/BIO-5871 to ISP); Fundación Leticia Castillejo Castillo and Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (SAF2012-30862 to RSP), Spain

INCIDENCIA DE LA BROCA DEL CAFÉ (HYPOTHENEMUS HAMPEI, FERRARI) Y CONTROL ETOLÓGICO EN LA FINCA «LA COMPINCHE», BRAMÓN, MUNICIPIO JUNÍN ESTADO DE TÁCHIRA – VENEZUELA

Este trabajo se realizó con el objetivo de determinar la incidencia y el efecto de la aplicación del control etológico en el manejo de la Broca del café (Hypothenemus hampei Ferrari) en la unidad de producción denominada “La Compinche”, ubicada en la Parroquia Bramón del Municipio Junín en el Estado Táchira – Venezuela. El experimento se desarrolló en la etapa de intercosecha, primero se determinó porcentaje de infestación de la broca en el área bajo estudio, seleccionándose 30 plantas al azar y una rama/planta ubicada en el tercio medio de la zona productiva, posteriormente en cada rama se contó el número total de frutos y el número de frutos perforados por la broca. Para el efecto del control etológico se utilizó un diseño de bloques al azar, con seis repeticiones y cinco tratamientos formados por diferentes atrayentes (T1: Mezcla de Metanol más Etanol, T2 Borra de café con Agua, T3 Alcohol Etílico (Aguardiente) T4 Concha de café con Agua, T5 Testigo). La incidencia de ataque y poblaciones de (Hypothenemus hampei) en los cafetales de la unidad de producción en estudio es de  34.5%.Se demostró el efecto del control etológico al utilizar la mezcla de alcohol (Metanol+ Etanol) en proporción 3:1, atrapando 64.515 insectos adultos de broca del café en el periodo estudiado

Sistema web para asistencia en el manejo integrado de malezas: temperatura y humedad de suelos

Un insumo imprescindible para lograr un buen manejo integrado de las malezas es una herramienta que permita estimar de manera precisa su emergencia a campo, es decir, anticipar los flujos de germinación en función de las condiciones meteorológicas de la zona. Con este objetivo se han desarrollado una gran variedad de modelos matemáticos que permiten estimar la emergencia de diferentes malezas basados en datos meteorológicos, en particular, temperatura y precipitación diarios. Entre estos modelos tienen una gran popularidad los de tipo logísticos (sigmoidales, weibull), que utilizan como variable descriptiva algún índice hidrotermal acumulado. Estos índices integran de manera sencilla e intuitiva el calor y la humedad necesarias para la salida de la dormición, la germinación y la emergencia de las malezas. Estos índices se construyen habitualmente con información de la temperatura y humedad del suelo a una dada profundidad en la que se estima se encuentra la semilla. El cálculo de estas variables se realiza mediante balances de masa y energía utilizando información meteorológica, principalmente temperaturas y precipitaciones diarias, así como radiación y viento, entre otras.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ