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Pedestrian Attribute Recognition: A Survey
Recognizing pedestrian attributes is an important task in computer vision
community due to it plays an important role in video surveillance. Many
algorithms has been proposed to handle this task. The goal of this paper is to
review existing works using traditional methods or based on deep learning
networks. Firstly, we introduce the background of pedestrian attributes
recognition (PAR, for short), including the fundamental concepts of pedestrian
attributes and corresponding challenges. Secondly, we introduce existing
benchmarks, including popular datasets and evaluation criterion. Thirdly, we
analyse the concept of multi-task learning and multi-label learning, and also
explain the relations between these two learning algorithms and pedestrian
attribute recognition. We also review some popular network architectures which
have widely applied in the deep learning community. Fourthly, we analyse
popular solutions for this task, such as attributes group, part-based,
\emph{etc}. Fifthly, we shown some applications which takes pedestrian
attributes into consideration and achieve better performance. Finally, we
summarized this paper and give several possible research directions for
pedestrian attributes recognition. The project page of this paper can be found
from the following website:
\url{https://sites.google.com/view/ahu-pedestrianattributes/}.Comment: Check our project page for High Resolution version of this survey:
https://sites.google.com/view/ahu-pedestrianattributes
Very Old Isolated Compact Objects as Dark Matter Probes
Very old isolated neutron stars and white dwarfs have been suggested to be
probes of dark matter. To play such a role, two requests should be fulfilled,
i.e., the annihilation luminosity of the captured dark matter particles is
above the thermal emission of the cooling compact objects (request-I) and also
dominate over the energy output due to the accretion of normal matter onto the
compact objects (request-II). Request-I calls for very dense dark matter medium
and the critical density sensitively depends on the residual surface
temperature of the very old compact objects. The accretion of
interstellar/intracluster medium onto the compact objects is governed by the
physical properties of the medium and by the magnetization and rotation of the
stars and may outshine the signal of dark matter annihilation. Only in a few
specific scenarios both requests are satisfied and the compact objects are dark
matter burners. The observational challenges are discussed and a possible way
to identify the dark matter burners is outlined.Comment: 9 pages including 1 Figure, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Simplified TeV leptophilic dark matter in light of DAMPE data
Using a simplified framework, we attempt to explain the recent DAMPE cosmic
flux excess by leptophilic Dirac fermion dark matter (LDM). The
scalar () and vector () mediator fields connecting LDM and
Standard Model particles are discussed. Under constraints of DM relic density,
gamma-rays, cosmic-rays and Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), we find that the
couplings , , and can
produce the right bump in flux for a DM mass around 1.5 TeV with a
natural thermal annihilation cross-section today. Among them, coupling is tightly constrained by
PandaX-II data (although LDM-nucleus scattering appears at one-loop level) and
the surviving samples appear in the resonant region, . We also study the related collider signatures, such as dilepton
production , and muon anomaly. Finally,
we present a possible realization for such leptophilic dark matter.Comment: discussions added, version accepted by JHE
Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Detection of Synchronous Multiple Primary Cancers in Esophagus and Stomach: Single Center Experience from China
The present study was undertaken to clarify the prevalence and clinicopathological features of synchronous multiple primary cancers (SMPCs) under upper gastrointestinal endoscopic examination. We enrolled 45,032 consecutive patients who underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopic examination for digestive disease from January 2006 to December 2007 in our hospital and analyzed the clinicopathological features of SMPCs in esophagus and stomach. SMPCs are defined as two or over two different cancerous lesions developing in the same or other organs within 6 months. SMPCs were identified in 46 patients (0.1%). The gender ratio was 5.6 : 1 (male/female) and the mean age was 59.4 years. Synchronous esophageal and gastric cancers were the most frequent, being seen in 32 patients (0.07%). The most common histological types of SMPCs were squamous cell carcinoma in esophagus and adenocarcinoma in stomach, respectively. There were 27 (59%) SMPCs patients who had the history of simultaneous exposure to tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking. Additionally, 32 (78%) esophageal squamous cell cancers were associated with tobacco use. And 23 adenocarcinomas of the stomach were associated with Helicobacter pylori infection
HL-LHC sensitivity to higgsinos from natural SUSY with gravitino LSP
In the realm of natural supersymmetric models, higgsinos are typically the
lightest electroweakinos. In gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking models, the
lightest higgsino-dominated particles decay into a -boson or a Higgs boson
(), along with an ultra-light gravitino () serving as the
lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). This scenario suggests a significant
non-resonant production. Basing on the recent global fitting results of
the -EWMSSM (MSSM with light electroweakinos and an eV-scale
gravitino as the LSP) performed by the \textsf{GAMBIT} collaboration, which
support a higgsino-dominated electroweakino as light as 140 GeV, we develop two
simplified models to evaluate their detection potential at the high-luminosity
LHC (HL-LHC) with and an integrated luminosity of
. The first model examines the processes where heavier
higgsino-dominated states decay into soft bosons, while the second
focuses on direct decays of all three higgsino-dominated electroweakinos into
plus a . Our study, incorporating both models and their
distinct decay channels, utilizes detailed Monte Carlo simulations for signals
and standard model backgrounds. We find that the HL-LHC can probe higgsinos up
to above 500 GeV, potentially discovering or excluding the natural SUSY
scenario in the context of a gravitino LSP. Further, we reinterpret this
discovery potential using the GAMBIT global fit samples, and find that the
entire parameter space of with an electroweak
fine-tuning measure () under 100 in -EWMSSM is
accessible at the HL-LHC.Comment: 31 pages, 12 figures, and 6 table
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