Policy Analysis of Agricultural Water Fee Collection in China

AbstractThe low collection rate of agricultural irrigation water fee is a common problem facing many developing countries, which has also troubled China since the 2000s. In different areas of China, there are two problem-solving strategies: raising water collection rate or exempting water fee. In this paper, we analyze the dilemma of China's agricultural water fee collection from both practical and theoretical perspective. We argue that China will not follow up one single model in agricultural water fee collection and each local government should explore appropriate policy in line with their own situation

Plug-and-Play Methods Provably Converge with Properly Trained Denoisers

Plug-and-play (PnP) is a non-convex framework that integrates modern denoising priors, such as BM3D or deep learning-based denoisers, into ADMM or other proximal algorithms. An advantage of PnP is that one can use pre-trained denoisers when there is not sufficient data for end-to-end training. Although PnP has been recently studied extensively with great empirical success, theoretical analysis addressing even the most basic question of convergence has been insufficient. In this paper, we theoretically establish convergence of PnP-FBS and PnP-ADMM, without using diminishing stepsizes, under a certain Lipschitz condition on the denoisers. We then propose real spectral normalization, a technique for training deep learning-based denoisers to satisfy the proposed Lipschitz condition. Finally, we present experimental results validating the theory.Comment: Published in the International Conference on Machine Learning, 201

Dynamics of real-time forecasting failure and recovery due to data gaps

Real-time forecasting is important to the society. It uses continuous data streams to update forecasts for sustained accuracy. But the data source is vulnerable to attacks or accidents and the dynamics of forecasting failure and recovery due to data gaps is poorly understood. As the first systematic study, a Lorenz model-based forecasting system was disrupted with data gaps of various lengths and timing. The restart time of data assimilation is found to be the most important factor. The forecasting accuracy is found not returning to the original even long after the data assimilation recovery

Intelligent Development Research on Job-Housing Space in Chinese Metropolitan Area under the Background of Rapid Urbanization

Under the impact of regional integration and rapid urbanization, Chinese metropolitan area is confronted with the pressure brought by further massiveness, high density and continuous development. The existing layout of job-housing space balance in cities has been further spread and aggravated, which leads to a series of problems including traffic jams and air pollution, etc. This thesis excavates, analyzes and integrates the city residents’ action trajectory data in various heterogeneous cities through the intelligent transportation data platform of metropolitan area. Furthermore, the research also extracts the intelligent knowledge on the aspect of urban job-housing space, identifies and analyzes its characteristics effectively. This thesis takes Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan area as the research object to carry out intelligent analysis on working and residential space in main cities. We can identify residents' commuting behaviors with multi-source location perception data. Firstly, the GPS trajectory data of large-scale taxi will be utilized, and the transportation behaviors and characteristics of taxi will be assumed as the urban residents’ trip behaviors. Then the research of urban space-time structure and residents’ activities hot spots will be carried out from the macro perspective. Secondly, a residents’ trip survey method combining mobile phone location and internet feedback will be put forward. Aiming at the location Microblog data, the characteristics of residents’ workplaces and residences could be identified with fuzzy mathematical method. During the identification process, the individual behavior patterns obtained from the resident trip survey data will be used as the recognition feature. Through the analysis, We discovered that the data mining method of the residents’ action trajectory is feasible for the study of job-housing space. The study shows that the key factor influencing the job-housing balance in metropolitan area is the improvement of disperse urbanization life-style which takes family as a single unit. It also puts forwards the future ternary development mode of “employment-residence-public service” of job-housing balance in Chinese metropolitan area. The research also discovers a measurement method of excess commuting to develop the commuting efficiency in job-housing space. Furthermore, through the research on excess commuting degree of main cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan area by utilizing the commuting behaviors extraction result of Microsoft data, the correlation factor of characteristic attributes and job-housing separation phenomenon in urban community could be found. Finally, the intelligent development characteristics of job-housing space in metropolitan area will be discussed by combining the geographical visualization method and taxi trajectory mining result

A study of energy correction for the electron beam data in the BGO ECAL of the DAMPE

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is an orbital experiment aiming at searching for dark matter indirectly by measuring the spectra of photons, electrons and positrons originating from deep space. The BGO electromagnetic calorimeter is one of the key sub-detectors of the DAMPE, which is designed for high energy measurement with a large dynamic range from 5 GeV to 10 TeV. In this paper, some methods for energy correction are discussed and tried, in order to reconstruct the primary energy of the incident electrons. Different methods are chosen for the appropriate energy ranges. The results of Geant4 simulation and beam test data (at CERN) are presented

Segmentation-aware Image Denoising Without Knowing True Segmentation

Recent works have discussed application-driven image restoration neural networks capable of not only removing noise in images but also preserving their semantic-aware details, making them suitable for various high-level computer vision tasks as the pre-processing step. However, such approaches require extra annotations for their high-level vision tasks in order to train the joint pipeline using hybrid losses, yet the availability of those annotations is often limited to a few image sets, thereby restricting the general applicability of these methods to simply denoise more unseen and unannotated images. Motivated by this, we propose a segmentation-aware image denoising model dubbed U-SAID, based on a novel unsupervised approach with a pixel-wise uncertainty loss. U-SAID does not require any ground-truth segmentation map, and thus can be applied to any image dataset. It is capable of generating denoised images with comparable or even better quality than that of its supervised counterpart and even more general “application-agnostic” denoisers, and its denoised results show stronger robustness for subsequent semantic segmentation tasks. Moreover, plugging its “universal” denoiser without fine-tuning, we demonstrate the superior generalizability of U-SAID in three-folds: (1) denoising unseen types of images; (2) denoising as preprocessing for segmenting unseen noisy images; and (3) denoising for unseen high-level tasks. Extensive experiments were conducted to assess the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed U-SAID model against various popular image sets