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A Benchmark of Video-Based Clothes-Changing Person Re-Identification
Person re-identification (Re-ID) is a classical computer vision task and has
achieved great progress so far. Recently, long-term Re-ID with clothes-changing
has attracted increasing attention. However, existing methods mainly focus on
image-based setting, where richer temporal information is overlooked. In this
paper, we focus on the relatively new yet practical problem of clothes-changing
video-based person re-identification (CCVReID), which is less studied. We
systematically study this problem by simultaneously considering the challenge
of the clothes inconsistency issue and the temporal information contained in
the video sequence for the person Re-ID problem. Based on this, we develop a
two-branch confidence-aware re-ranking framework for handling the CCVReID
problem. The proposed framework integrates two branches that consider both the
classical appearance features and cloth-free gait features through a
confidence-guided re-ranking strategy. This method provides the baseline method
for further studies. Also, we build two new benchmark datasets for CCVReID
problem, including a large-scale synthetic video dataset and a real-world one,
both containing human sequences with various clothing changes. We will release
the benchmark and code in this work to the public
Localization of BEN1-LIKE protein and nuclear degradation during development of metaphloem sieve elements in Triticum aestivum L.
Metaphloem sieve elements (MSEs) in the developing caryopsis of Triticum aestivum L. undergo a unique type of programmed cell death (PCD); cell organelles gradually degrade with the MSE differentiation while mature sieve elements keep active. This study focuses on locating BEN1-LIKE protein and nuclear degradation in differentiating MSEs of wheat. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) showed that nuclei degraded in MSE development. First, the degradation started at 2–3 days after flowering (DAF). The degraded fragments were then swallowed by phagocytic vacuoles at 4 DAF. Finally, nuclei almost completely degraded at 5 DAF. We measured the BEN1-LIKE protein expression in differentiating MSEs. In situ hybridization showed that BEN1-LIKE mRNA was a more obvious hybridization signal at 3–4 DAF at the microscopic level. Immuno-electron microscopy further revealed that BEN1-LIKE protein was mainly localized in MSE nuclei. Furthermore, MSE differentiation was tested using a TSQ Zn2+ fluorescence probe which showed that the dynamic change of Zn2+ accumulation was similar to BEN1-LIKE protein expression. These results suggest that nucleus degradation in wheat MSEs is associated with BEN1-LIKE protein and that the expression of this protein may be regulated by Zn2+ accumulation variation
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