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New Constructions of Zero-Correlation Zone Sequences
In this paper, we propose three classes of systematic approaches for
constructing zero correlation zone (ZCZ) sequence families. In most cases,
these approaches are capable of generating sequence families that achieve the
upper bounds on the family size () and the ZCZ width () for a given
sequence period ().
Our approaches can produce various binary and polyphase ZCZ families with
desired parameters and alphabet size. They also provide additional
tradeoffs amongst the above four system parameters and are less constrained by
the alphabet size. Furthermore, the constructed families have nested-like
property that can be either decomposed or combined to constitute smaller or
larger ZCZ sequence sets. We make detailed comparisons with related works and
present some extended properties. For each approach, we provide examples to
numerically illustrate the proposed construction procedure.Comment: 37 pages, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
Missing Modality Robustness in Semi-Supervised Multi-Modal Semantic Segmentation
Using multiple spatial modalities has been proven helpful in improving
semantic segmentation performance. However, there are several real-world
challenges that have yet to be addressed: (a) improving label efficiency and
(b) enhancing robustness in realistic scenarios where modalities are missing at
the test time. To address these challenges, we first propose a simple yet
efficient multi-modal fusion mechanism Linear Fusion, that performs better than
the state-of-the-art multi-modal models even with limited supervision. Second,
we propose M3L: Multi-modal Teacher for Masked Modality Learning, a
semi-supervised framework that not only improves the multi-modal performance
but also makes the model robust to the realistic missing modality scenario
using unlabeled data. We create the first benchmark for semi-supervised
multi-modal semantic segmentation and also report the robustness to missing
modalities. Our proposal shows an absolute improvement of up to 10% on robust
mIoU above the most competitive baselines. Our code is available at
https://github.com/harshm121/M3
Risk Analysis of Regions with Suspicious Illegal Logging and Their Trade Flows
To eradicate illegally harvested wood sources in its domestic market, it is critical to conduct risk assessments on wood sourcing in regions with illegal loggings. It is not reliable to use a single indicator to analyze suspicious illegal logging. This study integrates three key global indicators: CPI (Corruption Perceptions Index), HDI (Human Development Indicator), and WGI (The Worldwide Governance Indicators) by applying the entropy weight method to establish a new risk indicator to rank suspicious illegal logging regions. This study aims to establish better risk indicators by considering more factors to assess the risks of illegal logging and its trade flow more reliably. By analyzing roundwood production, Myanmar, Congo, and Nigeria are rated high-risk. Countries such as the U.S., Germany, Canada, and Finland are rated low-risk
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