CIAN: Cross-Image Affinity Net for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with only image-level labels saves large human effort to annotate pixel-level labels. Cutting-edge approaches rely on various innovative constraints and heuristic rules to generate the masks for every single image. Although great progress has been achieved by these methods, they treat each image independently and do not take account of the relationships across different images. In this paper, however, we argue that the cross-image relationship is vital for weakly supervised segmentation. Because it connects related regions across images, where supplementary representations can be propagated to obtain more consistent and integral regions. To leverage this information, we propose an end-to-end cross-image affinity module, which exploits pixel-level cross-image relationships with only image-level labels. By means of this, our approach achieves 64.3% and 65.3% mIoU on Pascal VOC 2012 validation and test set respectively, which is a new state-of-the-art result by only using image-level labels for weakly supervised semantic segmentation, demonstrating the superiority of our approach.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, AAAI 202

Methyl 2-[2-((Z)-{1-trans-[2-(4-fluoro-3-methyl­phen­yl)-2-methyl­cyclo­prop­yl]ethyl­idene}amino­oxymeth­yl)phen­yl]-2-[(E)-methoxy­imino]­acetate

The title compound, C24H27FN2O4, is an important inter­mediate in the synthesis of fungicidal strobilurin-type compounds. In the crystal structure, the oxime bond attached to the cyclo­propane ring adopts a Z configuration, while the oxime bond attached to the benzene ring adopts an E configuration. The fluoro­methyl­phenyl group adopts a trans configuration with respect to the remainder of the mol­ecule, and its mean plane forms a dihedral angle of 56.1 (1)° with the plane of the cyclo­propane ring

Design and Synthesis Functional Selective Catalytic Reduction Catalyst for NOx Removal

AbstractMeOx-Cu-SSZ-13 (Me=Mn, Ce) was synthesized by physically mixing mental oxide and ion-exchanged zeolite. The composite catalyst showed highly efficient for the NOx removal using NH3-SCR method. And the NO conversion is 98% for MnOx-CeO2/Cu-SSZ-13 at 150°C and 97% for MnOx/Cu-SSZ-13 at 175°C. Meanwhile, the N2 selectivity remains more than 98%. The catalysts are characterized by using XRD and SEM. The XRD patterns show that all samples are highly crystallized and without impurities. The SEM demonstrates all samples have uniform crystal size. Composite catalyst especially combined with Cu-SSZ-13 has considerable potential as a catalyst in the area of NOx conversion

Chemical markers for the quality control of herbal medicines: an overview

Selection of chemical markers is crucial for the quality control of herbal medicines, including authentication of genuine species, harvesting the best quality raw materials, evaluation of post-harvesting handling, assessment of intermediates and finished products, and detection of harmful or toxic ingredients. Ideal chemical markers should be the therapeutic components of herbal medicines. However, for most herbal medicines, the therapeutic components have not been fully elucidated or easily monitored. Bioactive, characteristic, main, synergistic, correlative, toxic and general components may be selected. This article reviews the effective use of chemical markers in the quality control of herbal medicines including the selection criteria considering the roles and physicochemical factors which may affect the effective use of chemical markers

StyleS2ST: Zero-shot Style Transfer for Direct Speech-to-speech Translation

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has gradually become popular as it has many advantages compared with cascade S2ST. However, current research mainly focuses on the accuracy of semantic translation and ignores the speech style transfer from a source language to a target language. The lack of high-fidelity expressive parallel data makes such style transfer challenging, especially in more practical zero-shot scenarios. To solve this problem, we first build a parallel corpus using a multi-lingual multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system and then propose the StyleS2ST model with cross-lingual speech style transfer ability based on a style adaptor on a direct S2ST system framework. Enabling continuous style space modeling of an acoustic model through parallel corpus training and non-parallel TTS data augmentation, StyleS2ST captures cross-lingual acoustic feature mapping from the source to the target language. Experiments show that StyleS2ST achieves good style similarity and naturalness in both in-set and out-of-set zero-shot scenarios.Comment: Accepted to Interspeech 202

Observation of giant nonreciprocal charge transport from quantum Hall edge states of single surface in topological insulator

Symmetry breaking in quantum materials is of great importance and leads to novel nonreciprocal charge transport. The topological insulator system provides a unique platform to study nonreciprocal charge transport due to the exotic surface state. But it is typically small in magnitude because the contributions from the top and bottom surface of topological insulator are usually opposite. Here, we report the observation of giant nonreciprocal charge transport mediated by the quantum Hall state in intrinsic topological insulator Sn-Bi1.1Sb0.9Te2S devices, which is attributed to the coexistence of quantum Hall states and Dirac surface states. A giant nonreciprocal coefficient of up to 2.26*10^5 A^-1 is found, because only a single surface of topological insulator contributes to the nonreciprocal charge transport. Our work not only reveals the intrinsic properties of nonreciprocal charge transport in topological insulators, but also paves the way for future electronic devices

Large Exchange Bias Effect and Coverage-Dependent Interfacial Coupling in CrI3/MnBi2Te4 van der Waals Heterostructures

Igniting interface magnetic ordering of magnetic topological insulators by building a van der Waals heterostructure can help to reveal novel quantum states and design functional devices. Here, we observe an interesting exchange bias effect, indicating successful interfacial magnetic coupling, in CrI3/MnBi2Te4 ferromagnetic insulator/antiferromagnetic topological insulator (FMI/AFM-TI) heterostructure devices. The devices originally exhibit a negative exchange bias field, which decays with increasing temperature and is unaffected by the back-gate voltage. When we change the device configuration to be half-covered by CrI3, the exchange bias becomes positive with a very large exchange bias field exceeding 300 mT. Such sensitive manipulation is explained by the competition between the FM and AFM coupling at the interface of CrI3 and MnBi2Te4, pointing to coverage-dependent interfacial magnetic interactions. Our work will facilitate the development of topological and antiferromagnetic devices