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Spatially Directional Predictive Coding for Block-based Compressive Sensing of Natural Images
A novel coding strategy for block-based compressive sens-ing named spatially
directional predictive coding (SDPC) is proposed, which efficiently utilizes
the intrinsic spatial cor-relation of natural images. At the encoder, for each
block of compressive sensing (CS) measurements, the optimal pre-diction is
selected from a set of prediction candidates that are generated by four
designed directional predictive modes. Then, the resulting residual is
processed by scalar quantiza-tion (SQ). At the decoder, the same prediction is
added onto the de-quantized residuals to produce the quantized CS measurements,
which is exploited for CS reconstruction. Experimental results substantiate
significant improvements achieved by SDPC-plus-SQ in rate distortion
performance as compared with SQ alone and DPCM-plus-SQ.Comment: 5 pages, 3 tables, 3 figures, published at IEEE International
Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2013 Code Avaiable:
http://idm.pku.edu.cn/staff/zhangjian/SDPC
Spin Decomposition of Electron in QED
We perform a systematic study on the spin decomposition of an electron in QED
at one-loop order. It is found that the electron orbital angular momentum
defined in Jaffe-Manohar and Ji spin sum rules agrees with each other, and the
so-called potential angular momentum vanishes at this order. The calculations
are performed in both dimensional regularization and Pauli-Villars
regularization for the ultraviolet divergences, and they lead to consistent
results. We further investigate the calculations in terms of light-front wave
functions, and find a missing contribution from the instantaneous interaction
in light-front quantization. This clarifies the confusing issues raised
recently in the literature on the spin decomposition of an electron, and will
help to consolidate the spin physics program for nucleons in QCD.Comment: 8 page
High Quality Image Interpolation via Local Autoregressive and Nonlocal 3-D Sparse Regularization
In this paper, we propose a novel image interpolation algorithm, which is
formulated via combining both the local autoregressive (AR) model and the
nonlocal adaptive 3-D sparse model as regularized constraints under the
regularization framework. Estimating the high-resolution image by the local AR
regularization is different from these conventional AR models, which weighted
calculates the interpolation coefficients without considering the rough
structural similarity between the low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR)
images. Then the nonlocal adaptive 3-D sparse model is formulated to regularize
the interpolated HR image, which provides a way to modify these pixels with the
problem of numerical stability caused by AR model. In addition, a new
Split-Bregman based iterative algorithm is developed to solve the above
optimization problem iteratively. Experiment results demonstrate that the
proposed algorithm achieves significant performance improvements over the
traditional algorithms in terms of both objective quality and visual perceptionComment: 4 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, to be published at IEEE Visual
Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 201
Integrated Face Analytics Networks through Cross-Dataset Hybrid Training
Face analytics benefits many multimedia applications. It consists of a number
of tasks, such as facial emotion recognition and face parsing, and most
existing approaches generally treat these tasks independently, which limits
their deployment in real scenarios. In this paper we propose an integrated Face
Analytics Network (iFAN), which is able to perform multiple tasks jointly for
face analytics with a novel carefully designed network architecture to fully
facilitate the informative interaction among different tasks. The proposed
integrated network explicitly models the interactions between tasks so that the
correlations between tasks can be fully exploited for performance boost. In
addition, to solve the bottleneck of the absence of datasets with comprehensive
training data for various tasks, we propose a novel cross-dataset hybrid
training strategy. It allows "plug-in and play" of multiple datasets annotated
for different tasks without the requirement of a fully labeled common dataset
for all the tasks. We experimentally show that the proposed iFAN achieves
state-of-the-art performance on multiple face analytics tasks using a single
integrated model. Specifically, iFAN achieves an overall F-score of 91.15% on
the Helen dataset for face parsing, a normalized mean error of 5.81% on the
MTFL dataset for facial landmark localization and an accuracy of 45.73% on the
BNU dataset for emotion recognition with a single model.Comment: 10 page
2-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)acetic acid–4,4′-bipyridine (1/1)
In the acid molecule of the title complex, C10H8N2·C8H8O3, the acetyl C—C—C—O torsion angle is −32.1 (3)°, and in the molecule of the base, the dihedral angle between the two pyridine rings is 23.41 (10)°. In the crystal structure, intermolecular O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds link the acid and the base molecules into a one-dimensional triple-helix framework extended along the b axis
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