2,267 research outputs found
Unlocking Low-Light-Rainy Image Restoration by Pairwise Degradation Feature Vector Guidance
Rain in the dark is a common natural phenomenon. Photos captured in such a
condition significantly impact the performance of various nighttime activities,
such as autonomous driving, surveillance systems, and night photography. While
existing methods designed for low-light enhancement or deraining show promising
performance, they have limitations in simultaneously addressing the task of
brightening low light and removing rain. Furthermore, using a cascade approach,
such as ``deraining followed by low-light enhancement'' or vice versa, may lead
to difficult-to-handle rain patterns or excessively blurred and overexposed
images. To overcome these limitations, we propose an end-to-end network called
which can jointly handle low-light enhancement and deraining. Our
network mainly includes a Pairwise Degradation Feature Vector Extraction
Network (P-Net) and a Restoration Network (R-Net). P-Net can learn degradation
feature vectors on the dark and light areas separately, using contrastive
learning to guide the image restoration process. The R-Net is responsible for
restoring the image. We also introduce an effective Fast Fourier - ResNet
Detail Guidance Module (FFR-DG) that initially guides image restoration using
detail image that do not contain degradation information but focus on texture
detail information. Additionally, we contribute a dataset containing synthetic
and real-world low-light-rainy images. Extensive experiments demonstrate that
our outperforms existing methods in both synthetic and complex
real-world scenarios
RIDCP: Revitalizing Real Image Dehazing via High-Quality Codebook Priors
Existing dehazing approaches struggle to process real-world hazy images owing
to the lack of paired real data and robust priors. In this work, we present a
new paradigm for real image dehazing from the perspectives of synthesizing more
realistic hazy data and introducing more robust priors into the network.
Specifically, (1) instead of adopting the de facto physical scattering model,
we rethink the degradation of real hazy images and propose a phenomenological
pipeline considering diverse degradation types. (2) We propose a Real Image
Dehazing network via high-quality Codebook Priors (RIDCP). Firstly, a VQGAN is
pre-trained on a large-scale high-quality dataset to obtain the discrete
codebook, encapsulating high-quality priors (HQPs). After replacing the
negative effects brought by haze with HQPs, the decoder equipped with a novel
normalized feature alignment module can effectively utilize high-quality
features and produce clean results. However, although our degradation pipeline
drastically mitigates the domain gap between synthetic and real data, it is
still intractable to avoid it, which challenges HQPs matching in the wild.
Thus, we re-calculate the distance when matching the features to the HQPs by a
controllable matching operation, which facilitates finding better counterparts.
We provide a recommendation to control the matching based on an explainable
solution. Users can also flexibly adjust the enhancement degree as per their
preference. Extensive experiments verify the effectiveness of our data
synthesis pipeline and the superior performance of RIDCP in real image
dehazing.Comment: Acceptted by CVPR 202
AMT: All-Pairs Multi-Field Transforms for Efficient Frame Interpolation
We present All-Pairs Multi-Field Transforms (AMT), a new network architecture
for video frame interpolation. It is based on two essential designs. First, we
build bidirectional correlation volumes for all pairs of pixels, and use the
predicted bilateral flows to retrieve correlations for updating both flows and
the interpolated content feature. Second, we derive multiple groups of
fine-grained flow fields from one pair of updated coarse flows for performing
backward warping on the input frames separately. Combining these two designs
enables us to generate promising task-oriented flows and reduce the
difficulties in modeling large motions and handling occluded areas during frame
interpolation. These qualities promote our model to achieve state-of-the-art
performance on various benchmarks with high efficiency. Moreover, our
convolution-based model competes favorably compared to Transformer-based models
in terms of accuracy and efficiency. Our code is available at
https://github.com/MCG-NKU/AMT.Comment: Accepted to CVPR202
Interrogating cell culture populations for the selection of production cell lines using microfluidic culturing, single cell analysis, and predictive modelling
Cell line development for manufacturing is a lengthy, multi-step, resource intensive, critical path activity. Attempts to perform in silico modelling and prediction of cell culture has been difficult due to complexities around heterogeneous cell culture populations that rapidly shift over generations under changing selective conditions. For example, early populations will often change as response to media and culturing conditions from a static colony culturing in microtiter plates, to small scale suspension culturing, and finally in a controlled bioreactor processes. As a result, it is challenging to make the final cell line selection early, while predicting future bioprocess performance, and ultimately estimate the protein product quality. We address this challenge by drastically increasing the amount of early cell culture population data obtained through use of emerging single cell technologies. Data obtained is combined with modelling approaches to select the best cell lines upfront to reduce timelines and processing steps. To achieve this, we have implemented a platform from Berkeley Lights that effectively digitalizes most aspects of cell culture. Thousands of individual cell lines can be manipulated, cultured and interrogated on a perfusion nanofluidic chip resulting in extensive data on cell behavior on an individual cell level as well as the populations. Through multivariate predictive modeling of this data, we can predict the performance of candidate clonal cell lines in larger scale production runs. Incorporation of additional single cell analysis such as digital droplet RT-PCR and next generation sequencing further predicts product quality, such as heterogeneity of bispecifics and sequence variant detection. Similar approaches can further be used to then study the stability and integrity of a final CHO cell banks. When combined, single cell interrogation of early culture populations allow for the dematerialization of the CLD process, make better predictions of bioprocess performance, and reduce select the final production clone earlier
On-stack replacement, distilled
On-stack replacement (OSR) is essential technology for adaptive optimization, allowing changes to code actively executing in a managed runtime. The engineering aspects of OSR are well-known among VM architects, with several implementations available to date. However, OSR is yet to be explored as a general means to transfer execution between related program versions, which can pave the road to unprecedented applications that stretch beyond VMs. We aim at filling this gap with a constructive and provably correct OSR framework, allowing a class of general-purpose transformation functions to yield a special-purpose replacement. We describe and evaluate an implementation of our technique in LLVM. As a novel application of OSR, we present a feasibility study on debugging of optimized code, showing how our techniques can be used to fix variables holding incorrect values at breakpoints due to optimizations
FSD-C10: A more promising novel ROCK inhibitor than Fasudil for treatment of CNS autoimmunity.
Rho-Rho kinase (Rho-ROCK) triggers an intracellular signalling cascade that regulates cell survival, death, adhesion, migration, neurite outgrowth and retraction and influences the generation and development of several neurological disorders. Although Fasudil, a ROCK inhibitor, effectively suppressed encephalomyelitis (EAE), certain side effects may limit its clinical use. A novel and efficient ROCK inhibitor, FSD-C10, has been explored. In the present study, we present chemical synthesis and structure of FSD-C10, as well as the relationship between compound concentration and ROCK inhibition. We compared the inhibitory efficiency of ROCKI and ROCK II, the cell cytotoxicity, neurite outgrowth and dendritic formation, neurotrophic factors and vasodilation between Fasudil and FSD-C10. The results demonstrated that FSD-C10, like Fasudil, induced neurite outgrowth of neurons and dendritic formation of BV-2 microglia and enhanced the production of neurotrophic factor brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3). However, the cell cytotoxicity and vasodilation of FSD-C10 were relatively small compared with Fasudil. Although Fasudil inhibited both ROCK I and ROCK II, FSD-C10 more selectively suppressed ROCK II, but not ROCK I, which may be related to vasodilation insensitivity and animal mortality. Thus, FSD-C10 may be a safer and more promising novel ROCK inhibitor than Fasudil for the treatment of several neurological disorders
Efficient and accurate simulations of deformable particles immersed in a fluid using a combined immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann finite element method
The deformation of an initially spherical capsule, freely suspended in simple
shear flow, can be computed analytically in the limit of small deformations [D.
Barthes-Biesel, J. M. Rallison, The Time-Dependent Deformation of a Capsule
Freely Suspended in a Linear Shear Flow, J. Fluid Mech. 113 (1981) 251-267].
Those analytic approximations are used to study the influence of the mesh
tessellation method, the spatial resolution, and the discrete delta function of
the immersed boundary method on the numerical results obtained by a coupled
immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann finite element method. For the description
of the capsule membrane, a finite element method and the Skalak constitutive
model [R. Skalak et al., Strain Energy Function of Red Blood Cell Membranes,
Biophys. J. 13 (1973) 245-264] have been employed. Our primary goal is the
investigation of the presented model for small resolutions to provide a sound
basis for efficient but accurate simulations of multiple deformable particles
immersed in a fluid. We come to the conclusion that details of the membrane
mesh, as tessellation method and resolution, play only a minor role. The
hydrodynamic resolution, i.e., the width of the discrete delta function, can
significantly influence the accuracy of the simulations. The discretization of
the delta function introduces an artificial length scale, which effectively
changes the radius and the deformability of the capsule. We discuss
possibilities of reducing the computing time of simulations of deformable
objects immersed in a fluid while maintaining high accuracy.Comment: 23 pages, 14 figures, 3 table
Effects of tumor metabolic microenvironment on regulatory T cells
Recent studies have shown that on one hand, tumors need to obtain a sufficient energy supply, and on the other hand they must evade the body’s immune surveillance. Because of their metabolic reprogramming characteristics, tumors can modify the physicochemical properties of the microenvironment, which in turn affects the biological characteristics of the cells infiltrating them. Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are a subset of T cells that regulate immune responses in the body. They exist in large quantities in the tumor microenvironment and exert immunosuppressive effects. The main effect of tumor microenvironment on Tregs is to promote their differentiation, proliferation, secretion of immunosuppressive factors, and chemotactic recruitment to play a role in immunosuppression in tumor tissues. This review focuses on cell metabolism reprogramming and the most significant features of the tumor microenvironment relative to the functional effects on Tregs, highlighting our understanding of the mechanisms of tumor immune evasion and providing new directions for tumor immunotherapy
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