Unsupervised Feature Learning by Deep Sparse Coding

In this paper, we propose a new unsupervised feature learning framework, namely Deep Sparse Coding (DeepSC), that extends sparse coding to a multi-layer architecture for visual object recognition tasks. The main innovation of the framework is that it connects the sparse-encoders from different layers by a sparse-to-dense module. The sparse-to-dense module is a composition of a local spatial pooling step and a low-dimensional embedding process, which takes advantage of the spatial smoothness information in the image. As a result, the new method is able to learn several levels of sparse representation of the image which capture features at a variety of abstraction levels and simultaneously preserve the spatial smoothness between the neighboring image patches. Combining the feature representations from multiple layers, DeepSC achieves the state-of-the-art performance on multiple object recognition tasks.Comment: 9 pages, submitted to ICL

A Novel Admission Control Model in Cloud Computing

With the rapid development of Cloud computing technologies and wide adopt of Cloud services and applications, QoS provisioning in Clouds becomes an important research topic. In this paper, we propose an admission control mechanism for Cloud computing. In particular we consider the high volume of simultaneous requests for Cloud services and develop admission control for aggregated traffic flows to address this challenge. By employ network calculus, we determine effective bandwidth for aggregate flow, which is used for making admission control decision. In order to improve network resource allocation while achieving Cloud service QoS, we investigate the relationship between effective bandwidth and equivalent capacity. We have also conducted extensive experiments to evaluate performance of the proposed admission control mechanism

THE ROLE OF SELECTIVE AUTOPHAGY AND CELL SIGNALING IN FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT AND PATHOGENESIS

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Integrated Sensing, Computation, and Communication: System Framework and Performance Optimization

Integrated sensing, computation, and communication (ISCC) has been recently considered as a promising technique for beyond 5G systems. In ISCC systems, the competition for communication and computation resources between sensing tasks for ambient intelligence and computation tasks from mobile devices becomes an increasingly challenging issue. To address it, we first propose an efficient sensing framework with a novel action detection module. It can reduce the overhead of computation resource by detecting whether the sensing target is static. Subsequently, we analyze the sensing performance of the proposed framework and theoretically prove its effectiveness with the help of the sampling theorem. Then, we formulate a sensing accuracy maximization problem while guaranteeing the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of tasks. To solve it, we propose an optimal resource allocation strategy, in which the minimal resource is allocated to computation tasks, and the rest is devoted to sensing tasks. Besides, a threshold selection policy is derived. Compared with the conventional schemes, the results further demonstrate the necessity of the proposed sensing framework. Finally, a real-world test of action recognition tasks based on USRP B210 is conducted to verify the sensing performance analysis, and extensive experiments demonstrate the performance improvement of our proposal by comparing it with some benchmark schemes

SYNC-CLIP: Synthetic Data Make CLIP Generalize Better in Data-Limited Scenarios

Prompt learning is a powerful technique for transferring Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP to downstream tasks. However, the prompt-based methods that are fine-tuned solely with base classes may struggle to generalize to novel classes in open-vocabulary scenarios, especially when data are limited. To address this issue, we propose an innovative approach called SYNC-CLIP that leverages SYNthetiC data for enhancing the generalization capability of CLIP. Based on the observation of the distribution shift between the real and synthetic samples, we treat real and synthetic samples as distinct domains and propose to optimize separate domain prompts to capture domain-specific information, along with the shared visual prompts to preserve the semantic consistency between two domains. By aligning the cross-domain features, the synthetic data from novel classes can provide implicit guidance to rebalance the decision boundaries. Experimental results on three model generalization tasks demonstrate that our method performs very competitively across various benchmarks. Notably, SYNC-CLIP outperforms the state-of-the-art competitor PromptSRC by an average improvement of 3.0% on novel classes across 11 datasets in open-vocabulary scenarios.Comment: Under Revie

Preparation and optoelectronic properties of silver nanowires

In this paper, polyol method was used to prepare different silver nanowires solutions by changing the concentration of FeCl3·6H2O solution, and the solutions were spin-coated on conductive glass substrates to form silver nanowires fi lms. The eff ect of the concentration of FeCl3·6H2O solution on the structure, surface morphology and optoelectronic properties of silver nanowires fi lms were investigated. When 600 μM FeCl3·6H2O solution was added, the fi lm had a high haze value of 0.099 at 550 nm and a low sheet resistance of 5.92 Ω/sq. The light trapping ability and electrical conductivity of silver nanowires fi lms are improved