110 research outputs found
Towards Top-Down Stereoscopic Image Quality Assessment via Stereo Attention
Stereoscopic image quality assessment (SIQA) plays a crucial role in
evaluating and improving the visual experience of 3D content. Existing
binocular properties and attention-based methods for SIQA have achieved
promising performance. However, these bottom-up approaches are inadequate in
exploiting the inherent characteristics of the human visual system (HVS). This
paper presents a novel network for SIQA via stereo attention, employing a
top-down perspective to guide the quality assessment process. Our proposed
method realizes the guidance from high-level binocular signals down to
low-level monocular signals, while the binocular and monocular information can
be calibrated progressively throughout the processing pipeline. We design a
generalized Stereo AttenTion (SAT) block to implement the top-down philosophy
in stereo perception. This block utilizes the fusion-generated attention map as
a high-level binocular modulator, influencing the representation of two
low-level monocular features. Additionally, we introduce an Energy Coefficient
(EC) to account for recent findings indicating that binocular responses in the
primate primary visual cortex are less than the sum of monocular responses. The
adaptive EC can tune the magnitude of binocular response flexibly, thus
enhancing the formation of robust binocular features within our framework. To
extract the most discriminative quality information from the summation and
subtraction of the two branches of monocular features, we utilize a
dual-pooling strategy that applies min-pooling and max-pooling operations to
the respective branches. Experimental results highlight the superiority of our
top-down method in simulating the property of visual perception and advancing
the state-of-the-art in the SIQA field. The code of this work is available at
https://github.com/Fanning-Zhang/SATNet.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
What makes an explosion happen?
The presence of the nonbonding XH tension constrains and the presence of the
anti or super hydrogen bond fosters the explosion in aqueous alkali and molten
alkali halides; the combination of the coupled hydrogen bond and the repulsive
anti or super hydrogen bond not only stabilzes the structure but also stores
energy of the energetic molecular assemblies by shortening all covalent bonds.Comment: 4 figure, 3500 work
Solutions to CDM Universe Derived from Global Brane Model
An exact solution of brane universe is studied and the result indicates that
Friedmann equations on the brane are modified with an extra term. This term can
play the role of dark energy and make the universe accelerate. In order to
derive the CDM Universe from this global brane model, the new
solutions are obtained to describe the manifold.Comment: 7 pages, no figure, accepted by MPL
Extensive remineralization of peatland‐derived dissolved organic carbon and ocean acidification in the Sunda Shelf Sea, Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is a hotspot of riverine export of terrigenous organic carbon to the ocean, accounting for ∼10% of the global land-to-ocean riverine flux of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon (tDOC). While anthropogenic disturbance is thought to have increased the tDOC loss from peatlands in Southeast Asia, the fate of this tDOC in the marine environment and the potential impacts of its remineralization on coastal ecosystems remain poorly understood. We collected a multi-year biogeochemical time series in the central Sunda Shelf (Singapore Strait), where the seasonal reversal of ocean currents delivers water masses from the South China Sea first before (during Northeast Monsoon) and then after (during Southwest Monsoon) they have mixed with run-off from peatlands on Sumatra. The concentration and stable isotope composition of DOC, and colored dissolved organic matter spectra, reveal a large input of tDOC to our site during Southwest Monsoon. Using isotope mass balance calculations, we show that 60%–70% of the original tDOC input is remineralized in the coastal waters of the Sunda Shelf, causing seasonal acidification. The persistent CO2 oversaturation drives a CO2 efflux of 2.4–4.9 mol m−2 yr−1 from the Singapore Strait, suggesting that a large proportion of the remineralized peatland tDOC is ultimately emitted to the atmosphere. However, incubation experiments show that the remaining 30%–40% tDOC exhibits surprisingly low lability to microbial and photochemical degradation, suggesting that up to 20%–30% of peatland tDOC might be relatively refractory and exported to the open ocean
Statefinder Parameters for Interacting Phantom Energy with Dark Matter
We apply in this paper the statefinder parameters to the interacting phantom
energy with dark matter. There are two kinds of scaling solutions in this
model. It is found that the evolving trajectories of these two scaling
solutions in the statefinder parameter plane are quite different, and that are
also different from the statefinder diagnostic of other dark energy models.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figures, some references are added, some words are
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