100 research outputs found
Analysis of Factors Influencing the Vehicle Damage Level in Fatal Truck-Related Accidents and Differences in Rural and Urban Areas
Accidents involving large trucks very often end up with deadly consequences. Innocent people getting killed are acknowledged globally as one of the traffic safety greatest problems and challenges. While risk factors on truck-related accidents have been researched extensively, the impact on fatalities has received little or no attention, especially considering rural and urban areas, respectively. In this study, the generalized ordered logit model was used in Stata 11.0 to explore the complex mechanism of truck-related accidents in different areas. Data were obtained from The Trucks in Fatal Accidents database (TIFA). The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) indicates that the model used in this paper is superior to traditional ordered logit model. The results showed that 9 variables affect the vehicle damage level in a fatal crash in both areas but with different directions. Furthermore, 23 indicators significantly affect the disabling damage in the same manner. Also, there are factors that are significant solely in one area and not in the other: 12 in rural and 2 in urban areas
Efficient Multimodal Fusion via Interactive Prompting
Large-scale pre-training has brought unimodal fields such as computer vision
and natural language processing to a new era. Following this trend, the size of
multi-modal learning models constantly increases, leading to an urgent need to
reduce the massive computational cost of finetuning these models for downstream
tasks. In this paper, we propose an efficient and flexible multimodal fusion
method, namely PMF, tailored for fusing unimodally pre-trained transformers.
Specifically, we first present a modular multimodal fusion framework that
exhibits high flexibility and facilitates mutual interactions among different
modalities. In addition, we disentangle vanilla prompts into three types in
order to learn different optimizing objectives for multimodal learning. It is
also worth noting that we propose to add prompt vectors only on the deep layers
of the unimodal transformers, thus significantly reducing the training memory
usage. Experiment results show that our proposed method achieves comparable
performance to several other multimodal finetuning methods with less than 3%
trainable parameters and up to 66% saving of training memory usage.Comment: Camera-ready version for CVPR202
Traffic Speed Prediction for Highway Operations Based on a Symbolic Regression Algorithm
Due to the increase of congestion on highways, providing real-time information about the traffic state has become a crucial issue. Hence, it is the aim of this research to build an accurate traffic speed prediction model using symbolic regression to generate significant information for travellers. It is built based on genetic programming using Pareto front technique. With real world data from microwave sensor, the performance of the proposed model is compared with two other widely used models. The results indicate that the symbolic regression is the most accurate among these models. Especially, after an incident occurs, the performance of the proposed model is still the best which means it is robust and suitable to predict traffic state of highway under different conditions.</p
MVF-Net: Multi-View 3D Face Morphable Model Regression
We address the problem of recovering the 3D geometry of a human face from a
set of facial images in multiple views. While recent studies have shown
impressive progress in 3D Morphable Model (3DMM) based facial reconstruction,
the settings are mostly restricted to a single view. There is an inherent
drawback in the single-view setting: the lack of reliable 3D constraints can
cause unresolvable ambiguities. We in this paper explore 3DMM-based shape
recovery in a different setting, where a set of multi-view facial images are
given as input. A novel approach is proposed to regress 3DMM parameters from
multi-view inputs with an end-to-end trainable Convolutional Neural Network
(CNN). Multiview geometric constraints are incorporated into the network by
establishing dense correspondences between different views leveraging a novel
self-supervised view alignment loss. The main ingredient of the view alignment
loss is a differentiable dense optical flow estimator that can backpropagate
the alignment errors between an input view and a synthetic rendering from
another input view, which is projected to the target view through the 3D shape
to be inferred. Through minimizing the view alignment loss, better 3D shapes
can be recovered such that the synthetic projections from one view to another
can better align with the observed image. Extensive experiments demonstrate the
superiority of the proposed method over other 3DMM methods.Comment: 2019 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognitio
Analysis of Factors Influencing the Vehicle Damage Level in Fatal Truck-Related Accidents and Differences in Rural and Urban Areas
Accidents involving large trucks very often end up with deadly consequences. Innocent people getting killed are acknowledged globally as one of the traffic safety greatest problems and challenges. While risk factors on truck-related accidents have been researched extensively, the impact on fatalities has received little or no attention, especially considering rural and urban areas, respectively. In this study, the generalized ordered logit model was used in Stata 11.0 to explore the complex mechanism of truck-related accidents in different areas. Data were obtained from The Trucks in Fatal Accidents database (TIFA). The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) indicates that the model used in this paper is superior to traditional ordered logit model. The results showed that 9 variables affect the vehicle damage level in a fatal crash in both areas but with different directions. Furthermore, 23 indicators significantly affect the disabling damage in the same manner. Also, there are factors that are significant solely in one area and not in the other: 12 in rural and 2 in urban areas
Tuning the anomalous Nernst and Hall effects with shifting the chemical potential in Fe-doped and Ni-doped CoSnS
CoSnS is believed to be a magnetic Weyl semimetal. It displays
large anomalous Hall, Nernst and thermal Hall effects with a remarkably large
anomalous Hall angle. Here, we present a comprehensive study of how
substituting Co by Fe or Ni affects the electrical and thermoelectric
transport. We find that doping alters the amplitude of the anomalous transverse
coefficients. The maximum decrease in the amplitude of the low-temperature
anomalous Hall conductivity is twofold. Comparing our results
with theoretical calculations of the Berry spectrum assuming a rigid shift of
the Fermi level, we find that given the modest shift in the position of the
chemical potential induced by doping, the experimentally observed variation
occurs five times faster than expected. Doping affects the amplitude and the
sign of the anomalous Nernst coefficient. Despite these drastic changes, the
amplitude of the ratio at the Curie temperature
remains close to , in agreement with the scaling
relationship observed across many topological magnets.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
NEURAL MARIONETTE: A Transformer-based Multi-action Human Motion Synthesis System
We present a neural network-based system for long-term, multi-action human
motion synthesis. The system, dubbed as NEURAL MARIONETTE, can produce
high-quality and meaningful motions with smooth transitions from simple user
input, including a sequence of action tags with expected action duration, and
optionally a hand-drawn moving trajectory if the user specifies. The core of
our system is a novel Transformer-based motion generation model, namely
MARIONET, which can generate diverse motions given action tags. Different from
existing motion generation models, MARIONET utilizes contextual information
from the past motion clip and future action tag, dedicated to generating
actions that can smoothly blend historical and future actions. Specifically,
MARIONET first encodes target action tag and contextual information into an
action-level latent code. The code is unfolded into frame-level control signals
via a time unrolling module, which could be then combined with other
frame-level control signals like the target trajectory. Motion frames are then
generated in an auto-regressive way. By sequentially applying MARIONET, the
system NEURAL MARIONETTE can robustly generate long-term, multi-action motions
with the help of two simple schemes, namely "Shadow Start" and "Action
Revision". Along with the novel system, we also present a new dataset dedicated
to the multi-action motion synthesis task, which contains both action tags and
their contextual information. Extensive experiments are conducted to study the
action accuracy, naturalism, and transition smoothness of the motions generated
by our system
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