Semantic Instance Annotation of Street Scenes by 3D to 2D Label Transfer

Semantic annotations are vital for training models for object recognition, semantic segmentation or scene understanding. Unfortunately, pixelwise annotation of images at very large scale is labor-intensive and only little labeled data is available, particularly at instance level and for street scenes. In this paper, we propose to tackle this problem by lifting the semantic instance labeling task from 2D into 3D. Given reconstructions from stereo or laser data, we annotate static 3D scene elements with rough bounding primitives and develop a model which transfers this information into the image domain. We leverage our method to obtain 2D labels for a novel suburban video dataset which we have collected, resulting in 400k semantic and instance image annotations. A comparison of our method to state-of-the-art label transfer baselines reveals that 3D information enables more efficient annotation while at the same time resulting in improved accuracy and time-coherent labels.Comment: 10 pages in Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 201

Tetra­ethyl­ammonium hexa­cyanidoferrate(III) bis­(diaqua­{6,6′-dimeth­oxy-2,2′-[o-phenyl­enebis(nitrilo­methyl­idyne)]diphenolato}manganese(III))–methanol–ethanol (1/2/2)

In the title compound, (C8H20N)[Mn(C22H18N2O4)(H2O)2][Fe(CN)6]·2CH3OH·2C2H5OH or [NEt4][Mn(3-Meosalophen)(H2O)2]2[Fe(CN)6]·2CH3OH·2C2H5OH, the asymmetric unit consists of one half of an [NEt4]+ cation disordered around a twofold axis, the [Mn(3-Meosalophen)(H2O)2]+ coordination cation, one half of a C 2 symmetric [Fe(CN)6]3− anion and disordered methanol and ethanol solvent mol­ecules that are equally populated at two different sites. The MnIII atom chelated by the 3-Meosalophen ligand adopts a slightly distorted MnN2O4 octa­hedral geometry with the coordination completed by two water mol­ecules. The [Mn(3-Meosalophen)(H2O)2]+ cations, [Fe(CN)6]3- anions and solvent mol­ecules are connected into a zigzag chain through hydrogen-bonding inter­actions

Dcr-1 Maintains Drosophila Ovarian Stem Cells

SummaryMicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression by controlling the turnover, translation, or both of specific mRNAs. In Drosophila, Dicer-1 (Dcr-1) is essential for generating mature miRNAs from their corresponding precursors. Because miRNAs are known to modulate developmental events, such as cell fate determination and maintenance in many species, we investigated whether a lack of Dcr-1 would affect the maintenance of stem cells (germline stem cells, GSCs; somatic stem cells, SSCs) in the Drosophila ovary by specifically removing its function from the stem cells. Our results show that dcr-1 mutant GSCs cannot be maintained and are lost rapidly from the niche without discernable features of cell death, indicating that Dcr-1 controls GSC self-renewal but not survival. bag of marbles (bam), the gene that encodes an important differentiating factor in the Drosophila germline, however, is not upregulated in dcr-1 mutant GSCs, and its removal does not slow down dcr-1 mutant GSC loss, suggesting that Dcr-1 controls GSC self-renewal by repressing a Bam-independent differentiation pathway. Furthermore, Dcr-1 is also essential for the maintenance of SSCs in the Drosophila ovary. Our data suggest that miRNAs produced by Dcr-1 are required for maintaining two types of stem cells in the Drosophila ovary

A scanning tunneling microscopy based potentiometry technique and its application to the local sensing of the spin Hall effect

A scanning tunneling microscopy based potentiometry technique for the measurements of the local surface electric potential is presented and illustrated by experiments performed on current-carrying thin tungsten films. The obtained results demonstrate a sub-millivolt resolution in the measured surface potential. The application of this potentiometry technique to the local sensing of the spin Hall effect is outlined and some experimental results are reported.Comment: 9 pages and 4 figure

catena-Poly[[(3-methyl­pyridine)­copper(I)]-μ-cyanido-copper(I)-μ-cyanido]

In the title complex, [Cu2(CN)2(C6H7N)]n, there are two copper atoms with different coordination environments. One Cu atom (Cu1) is linked to the two cyanide ligands, one N atom from a pyridine ring while the other (Cu2) is coordinated by the two cyanide ligands in a slightly distorted tetra­hedral geometry and linked to Cu1, forming a triangular coordination environment. The Cu atoms are bridged by bidentate cyanide ligands, forming an infinite Cu–CN chain. One cyanide ligand is equally disordered over two sets of sites, exchanging C and N atoms coordinated to both metal atoms. However, one cyanide group is not disordered and it coordinates to Cu1 via the N atom whereas its C-atom counterpart coordinates Cu2. The 3-methyl­pyridine (3MP) ligand coordinates through the N atom to Cu1 as a terminal ligand, which originates from decyanation of 3-pyridyl­acetonitrile under hydro­thermal conditions. Adjacent Cu–CN chains are inter­connected through Cu⋯Cu inter­actions [2.8364 (10) Å], forming a three-dimensional framework