Segmentation Method of Magnetic Tile Surface Defects Based on Deep Learning

Magnet tile is an essential part of various industrial motors, and its performance significantly affects the use of the motor. Various defects such as blowholes, break, cracks, fray, uneven, etc., may appear on the surface of the magnet tile. At present, most of these defects rely on manual visual inspection. To solve the problems of slow speed and low accuracy of segmentation of different defects on the magnetic tile surface, in this paper, we propose a segmentation method of the weighted YOLACT model. The proposed model uses the resnet101 network as the backbone, obtains multi-scale features through the weighted feature pyramid network, and performs two parallel subtasks simultaneously: generating a set of prototype masks and predicting the mask coefficients of each target. In the prediction mask coefficient branch, the residual structure and weights are introduced. Then, masks are generated by linearly combining the prototypes and the mask coefficients to complete the final target segmentation. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 43.44/53.44 mask and box mAP on the magnetic tile surface defect dataset, and the segmentation speed reaches 24.40 fps, achieving good segmentation results

The impact of corporate governance on executive compensation and pay-performance sensitivity

Executives are responsible for the company's daily operation management and major strategy decisions, which is directly related to the company performance. In the situation of increasingly fierce competition, how to establish an effective compensation incentive system for executives and how to solve the principal-agent problem has become a matter of concern. In this context, this study examines the impact of corporate governance on executive compensation and the pay-performance sensitivity using a comprehensive sample from more than 1000 non-financial Chinese listed companies during the period 2017-2019. This study takes executive compensation as the dependent variable, and for the independent variables, ROA is selected as an indicator to measure company performance, and four corporate governance elements including ownership concentration, CEO duality, board size and board independence are selected from the aspects of ownership structure and board structure. In order to study the impact of corporate governance on pay-performance sensitivity, the cross multiplicative term of ROA and corporate governance variables is added into the original model. The empirical results show that there is a positive relationship between executive compensation and firm performance. CEO duality will positively affect executive compensation in Chinese listed companies, while ownership concentration, board size, and board independence have a negative impact on executive compensation. As for the pay-performance sensitivity, the results also show that CEO duality can weaken the pay-performance link, larger board are more likely to link executive compensation to firm performance, while ownership concentration and board independence have no significant moderating effect in Chinese listed companies. On the basis of these findings, this research puts forward some useful suggestions and made some contributions to enrich the relevant literature. Keywords: Executive Compensation, Corporate Governance, Pay-performance Sensitivit

Transforming Graphs for Enhanced Attribute Clustering: An Innovative Graph Transformer-Based Method

Graph Representation Learning (GRL) is an influential methodology, enabling a more profound understanding of graph-structured data and aiding graph clustering, a critical task across various domains. The recent incursion of attention mechanisms, originally an artifact of Natural Language Processing (NLP), into the realm of graph learning has spearheaded a notable shift in research trends. Consequently, Graph Attention Networks (GATs) and Graph Attention Auto-Encoders have emerged as preferred tools for graph clustering tasks. Yet, these methods primarily employ a local attention mechanism, thereby curbing their capacity to apprehend the intricate global dependencies between nodes within graphs. Addressing these impediments, this study introduces an innovative method known as the Graph Transformer Auto-Encoder for Graph Clustering (GTAGC). By melding the Graph Auto-Encoder with the Graph Transformer, GTAGC is adept at capturing global dependencies between nodes. This integration amplifies the graph representation and surmounts the constraints posed by the local attention mechanism. The architecture of GTAGC encompasses graph embedding, integration of the Graph Transformer within the autoencoder structure, and a clustering component. It strategically alternates between graph embedding and clustering, thereby tailoring the Graph Transformer for clustering tasks, whilst preserving the graph's global structural information. Through extensive experimentation on diverse benchmark datasets, GTAGC has exhibited superior performance against existing state-of-the-art graph clustering methodologies

A Real-time Non-contact Localization Method for Faulty Electric Energy Storage Components using Highly Sensitive Magnetometers

With the wide application of electric energy storage component arrays, such as battery arrays, capacitor arrays, inductor arrays, their potential safety risks have gradually drawn the public attention. However, existing technologies cannot meet the needs of non-contact and real-time diagnosis for faulty components inside these massive arrays. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a new method based on the beamforming spatial filtering algorithm to precisely locate the faulty components within the arrays in real-time. The method uses highly sensitive magnetometers to collect the magnetic signals from energy storage component arrays, without damaging or even contacting any component. The experimental results demonstrate the potential of the proposed method in securing energy storage component arrays. Within an imaging area of 80 mm $\times$ 80 mm, the one faulty component out of nine total components can be localized with an accuracy of 0.72 mm for capacitor arrays and 1.60 mm for battery arrays

Towards Unified Text-based Person Retrieval: A Large-scale Multi-Attribute and Language Search Benchmark

In this paper, we introduce a large Multi-Attribute and Language Search dataset for text-based person retrieval, called MALS, and explore the feasibility of performing pre-training on both attribute recognition and image-text matching tasks in one stone. In particular, MALS contains 1,510,330 image-text pairs, which is about 37.5 times larger than prevailing CUHK-PEDES, and all images are annotated with 27 attributes. Considering the privacy concerns and annotation costs, we leverage the off-the-shelf diffusion models to generate the dataset. To verify the feasibility of learning from the generated data, we develop a new joint Attribute Prompt Learning and Text Matching Learning (APTM) framework, considering the shared knowledge between attribute and text. As the name implies, APTM contains an attribute prompt learning stream and a text matching learning stream. (1) The attribute prompt learning leverages the attribute prompts for image-attribute alignment, which enhances the text matching learning. (2) The text matching learning facilitates the representation learning on fine-grained details, and in turn, boosts the attribute prompt learning. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of the pre-training on MALS, achieving state-of-the-art retrieval performance via APTM on three challenging real-world benchmarks. In particular, APTM achieves a consistent improvement of +6.96%, +7.68%, and +16.95% Recall@1 accuracy on CUHK-PEDES, ICFG-PEDES, and RSTPReid datasets by a clear margin, respectively

An Improved Local Descriptor based Object Recognition in Cluttered 3D Point Clouds

Object recognition in three-dimensional point clouds is a new research topic in the field of computer vision. Numerous nuisances, such as noise, a varying density, and occlusion greatly increase the difficulty of 3D object recognition. An improved local feature descriptor is proposed to address these problems in this paper. At each feature point, a local reference frame is established by calculating a scatter matrix based on the geometric center and the weighted point-cloud density of its neighborhood, and an improved normal vector estimation method is used to generate a new signature of histograms of orientations (SHOT) local-feature descriptor. The geometric consistency and iterative closest point method realize 3D model recognition in the point-cloud scenes. The experimental results show that the proposed SHOT feature-extraction algorithm has high robustness and descriptiveness in the object recognition of 3D local descriptors in cluttered point-cloud scenes