SUIT: Learning Significance-guided Information for 3D Temporal Detection

3D object detection from LiDAR point cloud is of critical importance for autonomous driving and robotics. While sequential point cloud has the potential to enhance 3D perception through temporal information, utilizing these temporal features effectively and efficiently remains a challenging problem. Based on the observation that the foreground information is sparsely distributed in LiDAR scenes, we believe sufficient knowledge can be provided by sparse format rather than dense maps. To this end, we propose to learn Significance-gUided Information for 3D Temporal detection (SUIT), which simplifies temporal information as sparse features for information fusion across frames. Specifically, we first introduce a significant sampling mechanism that extracts information-rich yet sparse features based on predicted object centroids. On top of that, we present an explicit geometric transformation learning technique, which learns the object-centric transformations among sparse features across frames. We evaluate our method on large-scale nuScenes and Waymo dataset, where our SUIT not only significantly reduces the memory and computation cost of temporal fusion, but also performs well over the state-of-the-art baselines.Comment: Accepted to IROS 202

Effect of mobile health reminders on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Shanghai, China: A prospective cohort study

BackgroundPoor adherence increases the risk of unfavorable outcomes for tuberculosis (TB) patients. Mobile health (mHealth) reminders become promising approaches to support TB patients’ treatment. But their effects on TB treatment outcomes remain controversial. In this prospective cohort study, we evaluated the effect of the reminder application (app) and the smart pillbox on TB treatment outcomes compared with the standard care in Shanghai, China.MethodsWe recruited new pulmonary TB (PTB) patients diagnosed between April and November 2019 who were aged 18 or above, treated with the first-line regimen (2HREZ/4HR), and registered at Songjiang CDC (Shanghai). All eligible patients were invited to choose the standard care, the reminder app, or the smart pillbox to support their treatment. Cox proportional hazard model was fitted to assess the effect of mHealth reminders on treatment success.Results260 of 324 eligible patients enrolled with 88 using standard care, 82 the reminder app, and 90 the smart pillbox, followed for a total of 77,430 days. 175 (67.3%) participants were male. The median age was 32 (interquartile range [IQR] 25 to 50) years. A total of 44,785 doses were scheduled for 172 patients in the mHealth reminder groups during the study period. 44,604 (99.6%) doses were taken with 39,280 (87.7%) monitored by the mHealth reminders. A significant time-dependent downward linear trend was observed in the monthly proportion of dose intake (p < 0.001). 247 (95%) patients were successfully treated. The median treatment duration of successfully treated patients in the standard care group was 360 (IQR 283–369) days, significantly longer than those in the reminder app group (296, IQR 204–365, days) and the smart pillbox group (280, IQR 198–365, days) (both p < 0.01). Using the reminder app and the smart pillbox was associated with 1.58 times and 1.63 times increase in the possibility of treatment success compared with the standard care, respectively (both p < 0.01).ConclusionThe reminder app and the smart pillbox interventions were acceptable and improved the treatment outcomes compared with the standard care under the programmatic setting in Shanghai, China. More high-level evidence is expected to confirm the effect of mHealth reminders on TB treatment outcomes

Slam estimation in dynamic outdoor environments

This paper describes and compares three different approaches to estimate simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in dynamic outdoor environments. SLAM has been intensively researched in recent years in the field of robotics and intelligent vehicles, many approaches have been proposed including occupancy grid mapping method (Bayesian, Dempster-Shafer and Fuzzy Logic), Localization estimation method (edge or point features based direct scan matching techniques, probabilistic likelihood, EKF, particle filter). In this paper, a number of promising approaches and recent developments in this literature have been reviewed firstly in this paper. However, SLAM estimation in dynamic outdoor environments has been a difficult task since numerous moving objects exist which may cause bias in feature selection problem. In this paper, we proposed a possibilistic SLAM with RANSAC approach and implemented with three different matching algorithms. Real outdoor experimental result shows the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach

Research on reverberation characteristics analysis and suppression methods for active continuous detection

Compared with the traditional active detection with monopulse periodic emission mode, active continuous detection has the advantages of large emission duty ratio and continuous acquisition of process information. It can effectively overcome the disadvantages of high false alarm probability, poor environment adaptation ability and low detection efficiency in traditional active detection, so then improving the system detection ability. But active continuous detection is also facing more serious reverberation. In order to further improve capacity, the adaptable reverberation characteristics and detection methods are carried out in this paper. On the basis of theoretical modelling, the relationship between the characteristics of the active continuous detection reverberation and the signal form, the hydrological environment and the emission power are studied. The time frequency characteristics of reverberation and the attenuation law with distance of reverberation are mastered. A reverberation suppression method based on adaptive beamforming of sub-band steered minimum variance algorithm (SSMV) is studied for active continuous detection. Considering signal bandwidth and fast convergence, etc. The relationship between sub-array partition and reverberation suppression ability is analyzed. The validity of reverberation characteristic analysis is verified by simulation, the performance of the method of reverberation suppression is verified by sea trial data processing

Analysis of passive interference on radio station from AC UHV power

The problems of Electromagnetic Interference in Airborne Intelligence Radar Stations near the AC UHV Transmission Lines is researched in this paper, which is mainly passive interference. And then analyzed the passive interference of AC UHV lines. It mainly studied the influence of the tower and line on the distance detection performance of the air-to-air intelligence radar of the UHV transmission lines. and integrated the influence of the surface reflection surface, the shadowing effect and the secondary radiation echo interference, Proposed a passive interference protection distance for UHV transmission lines and airborne intelligence radar station

Research on the influence of design parameters on mechanical performance of net arch bridge

In order to study the suspender layout parameters and design parameters of the tied arch bridge with mesh suspenders under the action of vehicle load, the structure stress is more reasonable and meets the higher economy and aesthetics. Taking a 96m span reticulated tied arch bridge as the engineering background, the finite element model is established by using Midas/Civil 2019 program. The variation law of internal force and Suspender Force of the structure is calculated and analysed under the change of rise span ratio and suspender number parameters, and the relatively optimal value range of corresponding parameters is given. The results show that the rise span ratio should be 0.2-0.24; The number of Suspenders for one side arch rib should be 34-38; The relatively optimal range of the above parameters is discussed for reference

Analysis on the Influence of the Height of Tower on Passive Interference in shortwave

The passive interference of transmission lines to nearby radio stations may affect the effective reception and transmission of radio station signals. Therefore, the accurate calculation of the electromagnetic scattering of transmission lines under the condition of external electromagnetic waves is the basis for determining the reasonable avoidance spacing of the two. For passive stations operating in short-wave frequencies, passive interference is mainly generated by the tower. This paper uses the method of moments to perform passive interference calculations under normal circumstances, And elaborates the method for calculating the electromagnetic field of the transmission line, obtains the space electric field intensity of the transmission line at the same working frequency and space location of the plane wave. Uses the approximate formula to inductive the formula for calculating height of tower and the protective distance

Analysis on the Influence of Transmission Lines span on Passive Interference in Shortwave

The passive interference of transmission lines to nearby radio stations may affect the effective reception and transmission of radio station signals. Therefore, the accurate calculation of the electromagnetic scattering of transmission lines under the condition of external electromagnetic waves is the basis for determining the reasonable avoidance spacing of the two. For passive stations operating in short-wave frequencies, passive interference is mainly generated by the tower, and span is one of the most significant factors affecting passive interference. This paper uses the method of moments to carry out the passive interference calculations under normal circumstances, expounds the method of calculating the electromagnetic field of transmission line at the same time. And elaborates the method for calculating the electromagnetic field of the transmission line, obtains the space electric field intensity of the transmission line at the same working frequency and space location of the plane wave. Applying the approximate formula to calculate the formula for the span and critical distance between the observation point and the transmission line

Analysis of passive interference on radio station from AC UHV power

The problems of Electromagnetic Interference in Airborne Intelligence Radar Stations near the AC UHV Transmission Lines is researched in this paper, which is mainly passive interference. And then analyzed the passive interference of AC UHV lines. It mainly studied the influence of the tower and line on the distance detection performance of the air-to-air intelligence radar of the UHV transmission lines. and integrated the influence of the surface reflection surface, the shadowing effect and the secondary radiation echo interference, Proposed a passive interference protection distance for UHV transmission lines and airborne intelligence radar station