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Document generality: its computation for ranking
The increased variety of information makes it critical to retrieve documents which are not only relevant but also broad enough to cover as many different aspects of a certain topic as possible. The increased variety of users also makes it critical to retrieve documents that are jargon free and easy-to-understand rather than the specific technical materials. In this paper, we propose a new concept namely document generality computation. Generality of document is of fundamental importance to information retrieval. Document generality is the state or quality of docu- ment being general. We compute document general- ity based on a domain-ontology method that analyzes scope and semantic cohesion of concepts appeared in the text. For test purposes, our proposed approach is then applied to improving the performance of doc- ument ranking in bio-medical information retrieval. The retrieved documents are re-ranked by a combined score of similarity and the closeness of documents’ generality to that of a query. The experiments have shown that our method can work on a large scale bio-medical text corpus OHSUMED (Hersh, Buckley, Leone & Hickam 1994), which is a subset of MEDLINE collection containing of 348,566 medical journal references and 101 test queries, with an encouraging performance
A comparison of different cluster mass estimates: consistency or discrepancy ?
Rich and massive clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshift are capable of
magnifying and distorting the images of background galaxies. A comparison of
different mass estimators among these clusters can provide useful information
about the distribution and composition of cluster matter and their dynamical
evolution. Using a hitherto largest sample of lensing clusters drawn from
literature, we compare the gravitating masses of clusters derived from the
strong/weak gravitational lensing phenomena, from the X-ray measurements based
on the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium, and from the conventional
isothermal sphere model for the dark matter profile characterized by the
velocity dispersion and core radius of galaxy distributions in clusters. While
there is an excellent agreement between the weak lensing, X-ray and isothermal
sphere model determined cluster masses, these methods are likely to
underestimate the gravitating masses enclosed within the central cores of
clusters by a factor of 2--4 as compared with the strong lensing results. Such
a mass discrepancy has probably arisen from the inappropriate applications of
the weak lensing technique and the hydrostatic equilibrium hypothesis to the
central regions of clusters as well as an unreasonably large core radius for
both luminous and dark matter profiles. Nevertheless, it is pointed out that
these cluster mass estimators may be safely applied on scales greater than the
core sizes. Namely, the overall clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshift
can still be regarded as the dynamically relaxed systems, in which the velocity
dispersion of galaxies and the temperature of X-ray emitting gas are good
indicators of the underlying gravitational potentials of clusters.Comment: 16 pages with 7 PS figures, MNRAS in pres
Self-Supervised Deep Visual Odometry with Online Adaptation
Self-supervised VO methods have shown great success in jointly estimating
camera pose and depth from videos. However, like most data-driven methods,
existing VO networks suffer from a notable decrease in performance when
confronted with scenes different from the training data, which makes them
unsuitable for practical applications. In this paper, we propose an online
meta-learning algorithm to enable VO networks to continuously adapt to new
environments in a self-supervised manner. The proposed method utilizes
convolutional long short-term memory (convLSTM) to aggregate rich
spatial-temporal information in the past. The network is able to memorize and
learn from its past experience for better estimation and fast adaptation to the
current frame. When running VO in the open world, in order to deal with the
changing environment, we propose an online feature alignment method by aligning
feature distributions at different time. Our VO network is able to seamlessly
adapt to different environments. Extensive experiments on unseen outdoor
scenes, virtual to real world and outdoor to indoor environments demonstrate
that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art self-supervised VO
baselines considerably.Comment: Accepted by CVPR 2020 ora
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