85 research outputs found
Multi-stage Factorized Spatio-Temporal Representation for RGB-D Action and Gesture Recognition
RGB-D action and gesture recognition remain an interesting topic in
human-centered scene understanding, primarily due to the multiple granularities
and large variation in human motion. Although many RGB-D based action and
gesture recognition approaches have demonstrated remarkable results by
utilizing highly integrated spatio-temporal representations across multiple
modalities (i.e., RGB and depth data), they still encounter several challenges.
Firstly, vanilla 3D convolution makes it hard to capture fine-grained motion
differences between local clips under different modalities. Secondly, the
intricate nature of highly integrated spatio-temporal modeling can lead to
optimization difficulties. Thirdly, duplicate and unnecessary information can
add complexity and complicate entangled spatio-temporal modeling. To address
the above issues, we propose an innovative heuristic architecture called
Multi-stage Factorized Spatio-Temporal (MFST) for RGB-D action and gesture
recognition. The proposed MFST model comprises a 3D Central Difference
Convolution Stem (CDC-Stem) module and multiple factorized spatio-temporal
stages. The CDC-Stem enriches fine-grained temporal perception, and the
multiple hierarchical spatio-temporal stages construct dimension-independent
higher-order semantic primitives. Specifically, the CDC-Stem module captures
bottom-level spatio-temporal features and passes them successively to the
following spatio-temporal factored stages to capture the hierarchical spatial
and temporal features through the Multi- Scale Convolution and Transformer
(MSC-Trans) hybrid block and Weight-shared Multi-Scale Transformer (WMS-Trans)
block. The seamless integration of these innovative designs results in a robust
spatio-temporal representation that outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on
RGB-D action and gesture recognition datasets.Comment: ACM MM'2
mTOR Signaling in X/A‐Like Cells Contributes to Lipid Homeostasis in Mice
Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147831/1/hep30229-sup-0001-FigS1-S8.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147831/2/hep30229_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147831/3/hep30229.pd
Video Infringement Detection via Feature Disentanglement and Mutual Information Maximization
The self-media era provides us tremendous high quality videos. Unfortunately,
frequent video copyright infringements are now seriously damaging the interests
and enthusiasm of video creators. Identifying infringing videos is therefore a
compelling task. Current state-of-the-art methods tend to simply feed
high-dimensional mixed video features into deep neural networks and count on
the networks to extract useful representations. Despite its simplicity, this
paradigm heavily relies on the original entangled features and lacks
constraints guaranteeing that useful task-relevant semantics are extracted from
the features.
In this paper, we seek to tackle the above challenges from two aspects: (1)
We propose to disentangle an original high-dimensional feature into multiple
sub-features, explicitly disentangling the feature into exclusive
lower-dimensional components. We expect the sub-features to encode
non-overlapping semantics of the original feature and remove redundant
information.
(2) On top of the disentangled sub-features, we further learn an auxiliary
feature to enhance the sub-features. We theoretically analyzed the mutual
information between the label and the disentangled features, arriving at a loss
that maximizes the extraction of task-relevant information from the original
feature.
Extensive experiments on two large-scale benchmark datasets (i.e., SVD and
VCSL) demonstrate that our method achieves 90.1% TOP-100 mAP on the large-scale
SVD dataset and also sets the new state-of-the-art on the VCSL benchmark
dataset. Our code and model have been released at
https://github.com/yyyooooo/DMI/, hoping to contribute to the community.Comment: This paper is accepted by ACM MM 202
Effect of HIV-infection and menopause status on raltegravir pharmacokinetics in the blood and genital tract
This study describes first dose and steady state pharmacokinetics of raltegravir (RAL) in cervicovaginal fluid (CVF) and blood plasma (BP)
Chemokine (C-C Motif) Ligand 2 (CCL2) in Sera of Patients with Type 1 Diabetes and Diabetic Complications
Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2 (CCL2), commonly known as monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), has been implicated in the pathogenesis of many diseases characterized by monocytic infiltration. However, limited data have been reported on MCP-1 in type 1 diabetes (T1D) and the findings are inconclusive and inconsistent.In this study, MCP-1 was measured in the sera from 2,472 T1D patients and 2,654 healthy controls using a Luminex assay. The rs1024611 SNP in the promoter region of MCP-1 was genotyped for a subset of subjects (1764 T1D patients and 1323 controls) using the TaqMan-assay.Subject age, sex or genotypes of MCP-1 rs1024611SNP did not have a major impact on serum MCP-1 levels in either healthy controls or patients. While hemoglobin A1c levels did not have a major influence on serum MCP-1 levels, the mean serum MCP-1 levels are significantly higher in patients with multiple complications (mean = 242 ng/ml) compared to patients without any complications (mean = 201 ng/ml) (p = 3.5×10(-6)). Furthermore, mean serum MCP-1 is higher in controls (mean = 261 ng/ml) than T1D patients (mean = 208 ng/ml) (p<10(-23)). More importantly, the frequency of subjects with extremely high levels (>99(th) percentile of patients or 955 ng/ml) of serum MCP-1 is significantly lower in the T1D group compared to the control group (odds ratio = 0.11, p<10(-33)).MCP-1 may have a dual role in T1D and its complications. While very high levels of serum MCP-1 may be protective against the development of T1D, complications are associated with higher serum MCP-1 levels within the T1D group
Improved Covariance Matrix Estimation for Portfolio Risk Measurement: A Review
The literature on portfolio selection and risk measurement has considerably advanced in recent years. The aim of the present paper is to trace the development of the literature and identify areas that require further research. This paper provides a literature review of the characteristics of financial data, commonly used models of portfolio selection, and portfolio risk measurement. In the summary of the characteristics of financial data, we summarize the literature on fat tail and dependence characteristic of financial data. In the portfolio selection model part, we cover three models: mean-variance model, global minimum variance (GMV) model and factor model. In the portfolio risk measurement part, we first classify risk measurement methods into two categories: moment-based risk measurement and moment-based and quantile-based risk measurement. Moment-based risk measurement includes time-varying covariance matrix and shrinkage estimation, while moment-based and quantile-based risk measurement includes semi-variance, VaR and CVaR
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