222 research outputs found
Geo-Spatio-Temporal Information Based 3D Cooperative Positioning in LOS/NLOS Mixed Environments
We propose a geographic and spatio-temporal information based distributed
cooperative positioning (GSTICP) algorithm for wireless networks that require
three-dimensional (3D) coordinates and operate in the line-of-sight (LOS) and
nonline-of-sight (NLOS) mixed environments. First, a factor graph (FG) is
created by factorizing the a posteriori distribution of the position-vector
estimates and mapping the spatial-domain and temporal-domain operations of
nodes onto the FG. Then, we exploit a geographic information based NLOS
identification scheme to reduce the performance degradation caused by NLOS
measurements. Furthermore, we utilize a finite symmetric sampling based scaled
unscented transform (SUT) method to approximate the nonlinear terms of the
messages passing on the FG with high precision, despite using only a small
number of samples. Finally, we propose an enhanced anchor upgrading (EAU)
mechanism to avoid redundant iterations. Our GSTICP algorithm supports any type
of ranging measurement that can determine the distance between nodes.
Simulation results and analysis demonstrate that our GSTICP has a lower
computational complexity than the state-of-the-art belief propagation (BP)
based localizers, while achieving an even more competitive positioning
performance.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted to appear on IEEE Globecom, Aug. 2022.
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2208.1185
Understanding the Determinants of Review Helpfulness in Online Review Sites: An Empirical Study
Online review websites play an important role in customer’s purchase decision-making process for the useful product knowledge contained in the customer-generated reviews. However, the increasing information volume also makes it difficult for customers to identify and consider those attributes relevant to their decision. Based on Information Processing Theory (IPT) and Multiple Pathway Anchoring and Adjustment Model (MPAAM), we proposed three characteristics of online reviews affecting review helpfulness (e.g., attractiveness, representational sufficiency and functional sufficiency) and examined the moderating influences of information volume on these relationships. A large-scale review dataset from Yelp.com are collected and text analysis technique are applied to validate our research model. Our work, which illustrates the disturbance effect of information volume, has implications for both online word-of-mouth and information processing research
Distributed Spatio-Temporal Information Based Cooperative 3D Positioning in GNSS-Denied Environments
A distributed spatio-temporal information based cooperative positioning
(STICP) algorithm is proposed for wireless networks that require
three-dimensional (3D) coordinates and operate in the global navigation
satellite system (GNSS) denied environments. Our algorithm supports any type of
ranging measurements that can determine the distance between nodes. We first
utilize a finite symmetric sampling based scaled unscented transform (SUT)
method for approximating the nonlinear terms of the messages passing on the
associated factor graph (FG) with high precision, despite relying on a small
number of samples. Then, we propose an enhanced anchor upgrading mechanism to
avoid any redundant iterations. Our simulation results and analysis show that
the proposed STICP has a lower computational complexity than the
state-of-the-art belief propagation based localizer, despite achieving an even
more competitive positioning performance
SurgicalSAM: Efficient Class Promptable Surgical Instrument Segmentation
The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model that has
revolutionised image segmentation. To apply SAM to surgical instrument
segmentation, a common approach is to locate precise points or boxes of
instruments and then use them as prompts for SAM in a zero-shot manner.
However, we observe two problems with this naive pipeline: (1) the domain gap
between natural objects and surgical instruments leads to poor generalisation
of SAM; and (2) SAM relies on precise point or box locations for accurate
segmentation, requiring either extensive manual guidance or a well-performing
specialist detector for prompt preparation, which leads to a complex
multi-stage pipeline. To address these problems, we introduce SurgicalSAM, a
novel end-to-end efficient-tuning approach for SAM to effectively integrate
surgical-specific information with SAM's pre-trained knowledge for improved
generalisation. Specifically, we propose a lightweight prototype-based class
prompt encoder for tuning, which directly generates prompt embeddings from
class prototypes and eliminates the use of explicit prompts for improved
robustness and a simpler pipeline. In addition, to address the low inter-class
variance among surgical instrument categories, we propose contrastive prototype
learning, further enhancing the discrimination of the class prototypes for more
accurate class prompting. The results of extensive experiments on both
EndoVis2018 and EndoVis2017 datasets demonstrate that SurgicalSAM achieves
state-of-the-art performance while only requiring a small number of tunable
parameters. The source code will be released at
https://github.com/wenxi-yue/SurgicalSAM.Comment: Technical Report. The source code will be released at
https://github.com/wenxi-yue/SurgicalSA
Robust Audio Anti-Spoofing with Fusion-Reconstruction Learning on Multi-Order Spectrograms
Robust audio anti-spoofing has been increasingly challenging due to the
recent advancements on deepfake techniques. While spectrograms have
demonstrated their capability for anti-spoofing, complementary information
presented in multi-order spectral patterns have not been well explored, which
limits their effectiveness for varying spoofing attacks. Therefore, we propose
a novel deep learning method with a spectral fusion-reconstruction strategy,
namely S2pecNet, to utilise multi-order spectral patterns for robust audio
anti-spoofing representations. Specifically, spectral patterns up to
second-order are fused in a coarse-to-fine manner and two branches are designed
for the fine-level fusion from the spectral and temporal contexts. A
reconstruction from the fused representation to the input spectrograms further
reduces the potential fused information loss. Our method achieved the
state-of-the-art performance with an EER of 0.77% on a widely used dataset:
ASVspoof2019 LA Challenge
Effects of oxycodone hydrochloride and dezocine on hemodynamics and levels of inflammatory factors in patients receiving gynecological laparoscopic surgery under general anesthesia
We aimed to compare the effects of oxycodone hydrochloride and dezocine on hemodynamics and inflammatory factors in patients receiving gynecological laparoscopic surgery under general anesthesia. A total of 246 patients were divided into group A and B (n=123). Hemorheology indices were recorded 5 min after anesthesia (T0), 1 min after pneumoperitoneum (T1), when position was changed 5 min after pneumoperitoneum (T2), 15 min after pneumoperitoneum (T3), 1 min (T4) and 5 min (T5) after position was restored. Visual analogue scale scores 1, 2, 6, 12, 24 and 48 h after operation were recorded. Postoperative adverse reactions and visceral pain were observed. The expression levels of inflammatory factors were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay 12 h after operation. Compared with group A, group B had higher heart rate and mean arterial pressure at T2, lower central venous pressure and cardiac output at T1-T3, and higher systemic vascular resistance at T1-T5 (P<0.05). The incidence rate of pain syndrome in group A was lower (P<0.05). Group A had lower tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6 expression levels and higher interleukin-10 level than those of group B (P<0.05). For gynecological laparoscopic surgery, oxycodone preemptive analgesia has superior outcomes to those of dezocine
Association of autoantibodies against the M2-muscarinic receptor with perinatal outcomes in women with severe preeclampsia
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