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COVID-19: The Information Warfare Paradigm Shift
In Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the critical term is
paradigm-shift when it suddenly becomes evident that earlier assumptions no
longer are correct and the plurality of the scientific community that studies
this domain accepts the change. These types of events can be scientific
findings or as in social science system shock that creates a punctured
equilibrium that sets the stage in the developments. In information warfare,
recent years studies and government lines of efforts have been to engage fake
news, electoral interference, and fight extremist social media as the primary
combat theater in the information space, and the tools to influence a targeted
audience. The COVID-19 pandemic generates a rebuttal of these assumptions. Even
if fake news and extremist social media content may exploit fault lines in our
society and create a civil disturbance, tensions between federal and local
government, and massive protests, it is still effects that impact a part of the
population. What we have seen with COVID-19, as an indicator, is that what is
related to public health is far more powerful to swing public sentiment and
create reactions within the citizenry that are trigger impact at a larger
magnitude that has rippled through society in multiple directions
COVID-19: The Information Warfare Paradigm Shift
Thomas Kuhn\u27s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions highlights the critical term “paradigm shift,” which occurs when it suddenly becomes evident that earlier assumptions are no longer correct. The plurality of the scientific community studying this domain accepts the change. These paradigm-shifting events can be scientific findings or, as in the social sciences, a system shock that creates a punctured equilibrium, triggering a leap forward acquiring new knowledge. In information warfare, the government lines of effort have been to engage fake news, intercept electoral interference, fight extremist social media as the primary combat theater in the information space, and use the tools to influence a targeted audience to defend against an adversary that seeks to influence our population. The COVID-19 pandemic generates a rebuttal, or at least a challenge, of the information warfare assumption that our government’s authority, legitimacy, and control are mainly challenged by tampering with the electoral system, fueling extremist views, and distributing fake political news. The fake news and extremist social media content exploit fault lines in our society and create civil disturbances, tensions between federal and local government, and massive protests that impact only a fraction of the population. We have seen with COVID-19, for example, public health has a far more powerful effect on public sentiment and is more likely to create reactions of larger magnitude within the citizenry, which ripple out
Progressive One-shot Human Parsing
Prior human parsing models are limited to parsing humans into classes
pre-defined in the training data, which is not flexible to generalize to unseen
classes, e.g., new clothing in fashion analysis. In this paper, we propose a
new problem named one-shot human parsing (OSHP) that requires to parse human
into an open set of reference classes defined by any single reference example.
During training, only base classes defined in the training set are exposed,
which can overlap with part of reference classes. In this paper, we devise a
novel Progressive One-shot Parsing network (POPNet) to address two critical
challenges , i.e., testing bias and small sizes. POPNet consists of two
collaborative metric learning modules named Attention Guidance Module and
Nearest Centroid Module, which can learn representative prototypes for base
classes and quickly transfer the ability to unseen classes during testing,
thereby reducing testing bias. Moreover, POPNet adopts a progressive human
parsing framework that can incorporate the learned knowledge of parent classes
at the coarse granularity to help recognize the descendant classes at the fine
granularity, thereby handling the small sizes issue. Experiments on the ATR-OS
benchmark tailored for OSHP demonstrate POPNet outperforms other representative
one-shot segmentation models by large margins and establishes a strong
baseline. Source code can be found at
https://github.com/Charleshhy/One-shot-Human-Parsing.Comment: Accepted in AAAI 2021. 9 pages, 4 figure
Towards access control for visual Web model management
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Increase in regularity and decrease in variability seen in electroencephalography (EEG) signals from alert to fatigue during a driving simulated task.
Driver fatigue is a prevalent problem and a major risk for road safety accounting for approximately 20-40% of all motor vehicle accidents. One strategy to prevent fatigue related accidents is through the use of countermeasure devices. Research on countermeasure devices has focused on methods that detect physiological changes from fatigue, with the fast temporal resolution from brain signals, using the electroencephalogram (EEG) held as a promising technique. This paper presents the results of nonlinear analysis using sample entropy and second-order difference plots quantified by central tendency measure (CTM) on alert and fatigue EEG signals from a driving simulated task. Results show that both sample entropy and second-order difference plots significantly increases the regularity and decreases the variability of EEG signals from an alert to a fatigue state
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