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Uni-Removal: A Semi-Supervised Framework for Simultaneously Addressing Multiple Degradations in Real-World Images
Removing multiple degradations, such as haze, rain, and blur, from real-world
images poses a challenging and illposed problem. Recently, unified models that
can handle different degradations have been proposed and yield promising
results. However, these approaches focus on synthetic images and experience a
significant performance drop when applied to realworld images. In this paper,
we introduce Uni-Removal, a twostage semi-supervised framework for addressing
the removal of multiple degradations in real-world images using a unified model
and parameters. In the knowledge transfer stage, Uni-Removal leverages a
supervised multi-teacher and student architecture in the knowledge transfer
stage to facilitate learning from pretrained teacher networks specialized in
different degradation types. A multi-grained contrastive loss is introduced to
enhance learning from feature and image spaces. In the domain adaptation stage,
unsupervised fine-tuning is performed by incorporating an adversarial
discriminator on real-world images. The integration of an extended
multi-grained contrastive loss and generative adversarial loss enables the
adaptation of the student network from synthetic to real-world domains.
Extensive experiments on real-world degraded datasets demonstrate the
effectiveness of our proposed method. We compare our Uni-Removal framework with
state-of-the-art supervised and unsupervised methods, showcasing its promising
results in real-world image dehazing, deraining, and deblurring simultaneously
TcGAN: Semantic-Aware and Structure-Preserved GANs with Individual Vision Transformer for Fast Arbitrary One-Shot Image Generation
One-shot image generation (OSG) with generative adversarial networks that
learn from the internal patches of a given image has attracted world wide
attention. In recent studies, scholars have primarily focused on extracting
features of images from probabilistically distributed inputs with pure
convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, it is quite difficult for CNNs
with limited receptive domain to extract and maintain the global structural
information. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel structure-preserved
method TcGAN with individual vision transformer to overcome the shortcomings of
the existing one-shot image generation methods. Specifically, TcGAN preserves
global structure of an image during training to be compatible with local
details while maintaining the integrity of semantic-aware information by
exploiting the powerful long-range dependencies modeling capability of the
transformer. We also propose a new scaling formula having scale-invariance
during the calculation period, which effectively improves the generated image
quality of the OSG model on image super-resolution tasks. We present the design
of the TcGAN converter framework, comprehensive experimental as well as
ablation studies demonstrating the ability of TcGAN to achieve arbitrary image
generation with the fastest running time. Lastly, TcGAN achieves the most
excellent performance in terms of applying it to other image processing tasks,
e.g., super-resolution as well as image harmonization, the results further
prove its superiority
Plant buffering against the high-light stress-induced accumulation of CsGA2ox8 transcripts via alternative splicing to finely tune gibberellin levels and maintain hypocotyl elongation
Ajuts: this study was supported by The National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFD1000300), the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program from the China Postdoctoral Council (20170053), the Technology System Construction of Modern Agricultural Industry of Shanghai (19Z113040008), and the Presidential Foundation of Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (BZ201901).In plants, alternative splicing (AS) is markedly induced in response to environmental stresses, but it is unclear why plants generate multiple transcripts under stress conditions. In this study, RNA-seq was performed to identify AS events in cucumber seedlings grown under different light intensities. We identified a novel transcript of the gibberellin (GA)-deactivating enzyme Gibberellin 2-beta-dioxygenase 8 (CsGA2ox8). Compared with canonical CsGA2ox8.1, the CsGA2ox8.2 isoform presented intron retention between the second and third exons. Functional analysis proved that the transcript of CsGA2ox8.1 but not CsGA2ox8.2 played a role in the deactivation of bioactive GAs. Moreover, expression analysis demonstrated that both transcripts were upregulated by increased light intensity, but the expression level of CsGA2ox8.1 increased slowly when the light intensity was >400 µmol·m −2 ·s −1 PPFD (photosynthetic photon flux density), while the CsGA2ox8.2 transcript levels increased rapidly when the light intensity was >200 µmol·m −2 ·s −1 PPFD. Our findings provide evidence that plants might finely tune their GA levels by buffering against the normal transcripts of CsGA2ox8 through AS
A domestication-associated gene, CsLH, encodes a phytochrome B protein that regulates hypocotyl elongation in cucumber
Plant height is an important agronomic trait; tall plants are prone to collapse (lodging) and are unsuitable for high-density planting (Li et al., 2020). During the Green Revolution, a multitude of genes acting as core or peripheral regulators of plant height were identified and used in breeding (Eshed and Lippman, 2019); however, most were reported in cereal crop plants (Eshed and Lippman, 2019) and few have been characterized in the Cucurbitaceae, which are economically important horticultural plants cultivated worldwide. Here, we describe LONG HYPOCOTYL (CsLH), encoding the photoreceptor phytochrome B (PHYB), which we show has been subjected to selection during cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) domestication.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Observation of Coulomb blockade and Coulomb staircases in superconducting Pr0.8Sr0.2NiO2 films
Motivated by the discovery of superconductivity in the infinite-layer
nickelate family, we report an experimental endeavor to clean the surface of
nickelate superconductor Pr0.8Sr0.2NiO2 films by Ar+ ion sputtering and
subsequent annealing, and we study their electronic structures by cryogenic
scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. The annealed surfaces are
characterized by nano-sized clusters and Coulomb staircases with periodicity
inversely proportional to the projected area of the nanoclusters, consistent
with a double-barrier tunneling junction model. Moreover, the dynamical Coulomb
blockade effects are observed and result in well-defined energy gaps around the
Fermi level, which correlate closely with the specific configuration of the
junctions. These Coulomb blockade-related phenomena provide an alternative
plausible cause of the observed gap structure that should be considered in the
spectroscopic understanding of nickelate superconductors with the
nano-clustered surface.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Circumstellar Material Ejected Violently by A Massive Star Immediately before its Death
Type II supernovae represent the most common stellar explosions in the
Universe, for which the final stage evolution of their hydrogen-rich massive
progenitors towards core-collapse explosion are elusive. The recent explosion
of SN 2023ixf in a very nearby galaxy, Messier 101, provides a rare opportunity
to explore this longstanding issue. With the timely high-cadence flash spectra
taken within 1-5 days after the explosion, we can put stringent constraints on
the properties of the surrounding circumstellar material around this supernova.
Based on the rapid fading of the narrow emission lines and luminosity/profile
of emission at very early times, we estimate that the progenitor
of SN 2023ixf lost material at a mass-loss rate over the last 2-3 years before explosion.
This close-by material, moving at a velocity , accumulates a compact CSM shell at the radius smaller than cm from the progenitor. Given the high mass-loss rate and
relatively large wind velocity presented here, together with the pre-explosion
observations made about two decades ago, the progenitor of SN 2023ixf could be
a short-lived yellow hypergiant that evolved from a red supergiant shortly
before the explosion.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures in main body, accepted for publication in Science
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Effects of Intensive Blood Pressure Reduction on Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Current opinions about the effect of intensive blood pressure (BP) reduction for acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) are inconsistent. We performed a meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intensive BP reduction for acute ICH by analyzing data from several recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs). There were six eligible studies that met the inclusion criteria, for a total of 4,385 acute ICH patients in this meta-analysis. After analyzing these data, we found differences between intensive and standard BP lowering treatment groups in total mortality rates, unfavorable outcomes, hematoma expansion, neurologic deterioration, and severe hypotension were not significant. Moreover, compared with the standard treatment, the rate of renal adverse event in intensive treatment group was significantly higher. The intensive treatment approach was recommended in the following situations: (1) longer prehospital duration; (2) lower National Institute of Health stroke scale (NIHSS) score; (3) no hypertension history
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