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Loss Rank Mining: A General Hard Example Mining Method for Real-time Detectors
Modern object detectors usually suffer from low accuracy issues, as
foregrounds always drown in tons of backgrounds and become hard examples during
training. Compared with those proposal-based ones, real-time detectors are in
far more serious trouble since they renounce the use of region-proposing stage
which is used to filter a majority of backgrounds for achieving real-time
rates. Though foregrounds as hard examples are in urgent need of being mined
from tons of backgrounds, a considerable number of state-of-the-art real-time
detectors, like YOLO series, have yet to profit from existing hard example
mining methods, as using these methods need detectors fit series of
prerequisites. In this paper, we propose a general hard example mining method
named Loss Rank Mining (LRM) to fill the gap. LRM is a general method for
real-time detectors, as it utilizes the final feature map which exists in all
real-time detectors to mine hard examples. By using LRM, some elements
representing easy examples in final feature map are filtered and detectors are
forced to concentrate on hard examples during training. Extensive experiments
validate the effectiveness of our method. With our method, the improvements of
YOLOv2 detector on auto-driving related dataset KITTI and more general dataset
PASCAL VOC are over 5% and 2% mAP, respectively. In addition, LRM is the first
hard example mining strategy which could fit YOLOv2 perfectly and make it
better applied in series of real scenarios where both real-time rates and
accurate detection are strongly demanded.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Maximum Entropy Based Lexical Reordering Model for Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation
Differential measurement of atmospheric refraction with a telescope with double fields of view
For the sake of complete theoretical research of atmospheric refraction, the
atmospheric refraction under the condition of lower angles of elevation is
still worthy to be analyzed and explored. In some engineering applications, the
objects with larger zenith distance must be observed sometimes. Carrying out
observational research of the atmospheric refraction at lower angles of
elevation has an important significance. It has been considered difficult to
measure the atmospheric refraction at lower angles of elevation. A new idea for
determining atmospheric refraction by utilizing differential measurement with
double fields of view is proposed. Taking the observational principle of
HIPPARCOS satellite as a reference, a schematic prototype with double fields of
view was developed. In August of 2013, experimental observations were carried
out and the atmospheric refractions at lower angles of elevation can be
obtained by the schematic prototype. The measured value of the atmospheric
refraction at the zenith distance of 78.8 degree is , and the
feasibility of differential measurement of atmospheric refraction with double
fields of view was justified. The limitations of the schematic prototype such
as inadequate ability of gathering light, lack of accurate meteorological data
recording and lower automatic level of observation and data processing were
also pointed out, which need to be improved in subsequent work.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Orbital angular momentum mode-demultiplexing scheme with partial angular receiving aperture
For long distance orbital angular momentum (OAM) based transmission, the conventional whole beam receiving scheme encounters the difficulty of large aperture due to the divergence of OAM beams. We propose a novel partial receiving scheme, using a restricted angular aperture to receive and demultiplex multi-OAM-mode beams. The scheme is theoretically analyzed to show that a regularly spaced OAM mode set remain orthogonal and therefore can be de-multiplexed. Experiments have been carried out to verify the feasibility. This partial receiving scheme can serve as an effective method with both space and cost savings for the OAM communications. It is applicable to both free space OAM optical communications and radio frequency (RF) OAM communications
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