256 research outputs found
Fast Preprocessing for Robust Face Sketch Synthesis
Exemplar-based face sketch synthesis methods usually meet the challenging
problem that input photos are captured in different lighting conditions from
training photos. The critical step causing the failure is the search of similar
patch candidates for an input photo patch. Conventional illumination invariant
patch distances are adopted rather than directly relying on pixel intensity
difference, but they will fail when local contrast within a patch changes. In
this paper, we propose a fast preprocessing method named Bidirectional
Luminance Remapping (BLR), which interactively adjust the lighting of training
and input photos. Our method can be directly integrated into state-of-the-art
exemplar-based methods to improve their robustness with ignorable computational
cost.Comment: IJCAI 2017. Project page:
http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~yibisong/ijcai17_sketch/index.htm
Stylizing Face Images via Multiple Exemplars
We address the problem of transferring the style of a headshot photo to face
images. Existing methods using a single exemplar lead to inaccurate results
when the exemplar does not contain sufficient stylized facial components for a
given photo. In this work, we propose an algorithm to stylize face images using
multiple exemplars containing different subjects in the same style. Patch
correspondences between an input photo and multiple exemplars are established
using a Markov Random Field (MRF), which enables accurate local energy transfer
via Laplacian stacks. As image patches from multiple exemplars are used, the
boundaries of facial components on the target image are inevitably
inconsistent. The artifacts are removed by a post-processing step using an
edge-preserving filter. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm
consistently produces visually pleasing results.Comment: In CVIU 2017. Project Page:
http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~yibisong/cviu17/index.htm
Learning to Hallucinate Face Images via Component Generation and Enhancement
We propose a two-stage method for face hallucination. First, we generate
facial components of the input image using CNNs. These components represent the
basic facial structures. Second, we synthesize fine-grained facial structures
from high resolution training images. The details of these structures are
transferred into facial components for enhancement. Therefore, we generate
facial components to approximate ground truth global appearance in the first
stage and enhance them through recovering details in the second stage. The
experiments demonstrate that our method performs favorably against
state-of-the-art methodsComment: IJCAI 2017. Project page:
http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~yibisong/ijcai17_sr/index.htm
Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Predicting Abrasion Resistance of Solution Polymerized Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Based Composites
Abrasion resistance of solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR)
based composites is a typical and crucial property in practical applications.
Previous studies show that the abrasion resistance can be calculated by the
multiple linear regression model. In our study, considering this relationship
can also be described into the non-linear conditions, a Multilayer Feed-forward
Neural Networks model with 3 nodes (MLFN-3) was successfully established to
describe the relationship between the abrasion resistance and other properties,
using 23 groups of data, with the RMS error 0.07. Our studies have proved that
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) model can be used to predict the SSBR-based
composites, which is an accurate and robust process
Insight into improving antidepressant adherence and symptoms by pharmacist intervention: A review
Purpose: To assess the effectiveness of antidepressant medication adherence-improving intervention by a pharmacist and its impact on clinical symptoms of depression among outdoor depressive patients.Methods: Various databases such as PubMed, Embase, and Scopus were used sources for the literature published during the last 20 years. Pharmacist intervention studies involving adult depressed patients (≥ 17 years old) and treated with antidepressants were included. Twelve studies met the inclusion criteria.Results: These studies depicted various levels of interventions in which pharmacist counseled and educated the patients to support medication adherence. In only one of the studies, pharmacist intervention exercised significant effect on the depression features of patients.Conclusion: The findings suggest that the implication of antidepressant medication adherenceimproving intervention by pharmacist leads to the improved adherence of adult depressive patients to antidepressants. However, pharmacist intervention did not show any significant influence on depression symptomology, necessitating further studies on the topic.Keywords: Pharmacist care, Depression, Antidepressants, Intervention, Medication adherenc
Adoption and implication of the Biased-Annotator Competence Estimation (BACE) model into COVID-19 vaccine Twitter data: Human annotation for latent message features
Traditional quantitative content analysis approach (human coding method) has
weaknesses, such as assuming all human coders are equally accurate once the
intercoder reliability for training reaches a threshold score. We applied the
Biased-Annotator Competence Estimation (BACE) model (Tyler, 2021), which draws
on Bayesian modeling to improve human coding. An important contribution of this
model is it takes each coder's potential biases and reliability into
consideration and treats the "true" label of each message as a latent
parameter, with quantifiable estimation uncertainties. In contrast, in
conventional human coding, each message will receive a fixed label without
estimates for measurement uncertainties. In this extended abstract, we first
summarize the weaknesses of conventional human coding; and then apply the BACE
model to COVID-19 vaccine Twitter data and compare BACE with other statistical
models; finally, we discuss how the BACE model can be applied to improve human
coding of latent message features
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