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Optical Monitoring of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 and Possible Periodicities in the Historical Light Curve
We report B, V, and R band CCD photometry of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151
obtained with the 1.0-m telescope at Weihai Observatory of Shandong University
and the 1.56-m telescope at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory from 2005
December to 2013 February. Combining all available data from literature, we
have constructed a historical light curve from 1910 to 2013 to study the
periodicity of the source using three different methods (the Jurkevich method,
the Lomb-Scargle periodogram method and the Discrete Correlation Function
method). We find possible periods of P_1=4\pm0.1, P_2=7.5\pm0.3 and
P_3=15.9\pm0.3 yr.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, Accepted by Research in Astronomy and
Astrophysic
Power-law Strength-Degree Correlation From a Resource-Allocation Dynamics on Weighted Networks
Many weighted scale-free networks are known to have a power-law correlation
between strength and degree of nodes, which, however, has not been well
explicated. We investigate the dynamic behaviors of resource/traffic flow on
scale-free networks. The dynamical system will evolve to a kinetic equilibrium
state, where the strength, defined by the amount of resource or traffic load,
is correlated with the degree in a power-law form with tunable exponent. The
analytical results agree with simulations well.Comment: 6 pages, and 8 figure
KPEval: Towards Fine-grained Semantic-based Evaluation of Keyphrase Extraction and Generation Systems
Despite the significant advancements in keyphrase extraction and keyphrase
generation methods, the predominant approach for evaluation only relies on
exact matching with human references and disregards reference-free attributes.
This scheme fails to recognize systems that generate keyphrases that are
semantically equivalent to the references or keyphrases that have practical
utility. To better understand the strengths and weaknesses of different
keyphrase systems, we propose a comprehensive evaluation framework consisting
of six critical dimensions: naturalness, faithfulness, saliency, coverage,
diversity, and utility. For each dimension, we discuss the desiderata and
design semantic-based metrics that align with the evaluation objectives.
Rigorous meta-evaluation studies demonstrate that our evaluation strategy
correlates better with human preferences compared to a range of previously used
metrics. Using this framework, we re-evaluate 18 keyphrase systems and further
discover that (1) the best model differs in different dimensions, with
pre-trained language models achieving the best in most dimensions; (2) the
utility in downstream tasks does not always correlate well with reference-based
metrics; and (3) large language models exhibit a strong performance in
reference-free evaluation
Large-scale Weakly Supervised Learning for Road Extraction from Satellite Imagery
Automatic road extraction from satellite imagery using deep learning is a
viable alternative to traditional manual mapping. Therefore it has received
considerable attention recently. However, most of the existing methods are
supervised and require pixel-level labeling, which is tedious and error-prone.
To make matters worse, the earth has a diverse range of terrain, vegetation,
and man-made objects. It is well known that models trained in one area
generalize poorly to other areas. Various shooting conditions such as light and
angel, as well as different image processing techniques further complicate the
issue. It is impractical to develop training data to cover all image styles.
This paper proposes to leverage OpenStreetMap road data as weak labels and
large scale satellite imagery to pre-train semantic segmentation models. Our
extensive experimental results show that the prediction accuracy increases with
the amount of the weakly labeled data, as well as the road density in the areas
chosen for training. Using as much as 100 times more data than the widely used
DeepGlobe road dataset, our model with the D-LinkNet architecture and the
ResNet-50 backbone exceeds the top performer of the current DeepGlobe
leaderboard. Furthermore, due to large-scale pre-training, our model
generalizes much better than those trained with only the curated datasets,
implying great application potential
VKIE: The Application of Key Information Extraction on Video Text
Extracting structured information from videos is critical for numerous
downstream applications in the industry. In this paper, we define a significant
task of extracting hierarchical key information from visual texts on videos. To
fulfill this task, we decouples it into four subtasks and introduce two
implementation solutions called PipVKIE and UniVKIE. PipVKIE sequentially
completes the four subtasks in continuous stages, while UniVKIE is improved by
unifying all the subtasks into one backbone. Both PipVKIE and UniVKIE leverage
multimodal information from vision, text, and coordinates for feature
representation. Extensive experiments on one well-defined dataset demonstrate
that our solutions can achieve remarkable performance and efficient inference
speed. The code and dataset will be publicly available
End-to-End Learning for Simultaneously Generating Decision Map and Multi-Focus Image Fusion Result
The general aim of multi-focus image fusion is to gather focused regions of
different images to generate a unique all-in-focus fused image. Deep learning
based methods become the mainstream of image fusion by virtue of its powerful
feature representation ability. However, most of the existing deep learning
structures failed to balance fusion quality and end-to-end implementation
convenience. End-to-end decoder design often leads to unrealistic result
because of its non-linear mapping mechanism. On the other hand, generating an
intermediate decision map achieves better quality for the fused image, but
relies on the rectification with empirical post-processing parameter choices.
In this work, to handle the requirements of both output image quality and
comprehensive simplicity of structure implementation, we propose a cascade
network to simultaneously generate decision map and fused result with an
end-to-end training procedure. It avoids the dependence on empirical
post-processing methods in the inference stage. To improve the fusion quality,
we introduce a gradient aware loss function to preserve gradient information in
output fused image. In addition, we design a decision calibration strategy to
decrease the time consumption in the application of multiple images fusion.
Extensive experiments are conducted to compare with 19 different
state-of-the-art multi-focus image fusion structures with 6 assessment metrics.
The results prove that our designed structure can generally ameliorate the
output fused image quality, while implementation efficiency increases over 30\%
for multiple images fusion.Comment: repor
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