Name Your Colour For the Task: Artificially Discover Colour Naming via Colour Quantisation Transformer

The long-standing theory that a colour-naming system evolves under dual pressure of efficient communication and perceptual mechanism is supported by more and more linguistic studies, including analysing four decades of diachronic data from the Nafaanra language. This inspires us to explore whether machine learning could evolve and discover a similar colour-naming system via optimising the communication efficiency represented by high-level recognition performance. Here, we propose a novel colour quantisation transformer, CQFormer, that quantises colour space while maintaining the accuracy of machine recognition on the quantised images. Given an RGB image, Annotation Branch maps it into an index map before generating the quantised image with a colour palette; meanwhile the Palette Branch utilises a key-point detection way to find proper colours in the palette among the whole colour space. By interacting with colour annotation, CQFormer is able to balance both the machine vision accuracy and colour perceptual structure such as distinct and stable colour distribution for discovered colour system. Very interestingly, we even observe the consistent evolution pattern between our artificial colour system and basic colour terms across human languages. Besides, our colour quantisation method also offers an efficient quantisation method that effectively compresses the image storage while maintaining high performance in high-level recognition tasks such as classification and detection. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of our method with extremely low bit-rate colours, showing potential to integrate into quantisation network to quantities from image to network activation. The source code is available at https://github.com/ryeocthiv/CQForme

A Feature Extraction Method Based on Feature Fusion and its Application in the Text-Driven Failure Diagnosis Field

As a basic task in NLP (Natural Language Processing), feature extraction directly determines the quality of text clustering and text classification. However, the commonly used TF-IDF (Term Frequency & Inverse Document Frequency) and LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) text feature extraction methods have shortcomings in not considering the text’s context and blindness to the topic of the corpus. This study builds a feature extraction algorithm and application scenarios in the field of failure diagnosis. A text-driven failure diagnosis model is designed to classify and automatically judge which failure mode the failure described in the text belongs to once a failure-description text is entered. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed feature extraction algorithm and failure diagnosis model, a long-term accumulated failure description text of an aircraft maintenance and support system was used as a subject to conduct an empirical study. The final experimental results also show that the proposed feature extraction method can effectively improve the effect of clustering, and the proposed failure diagnosis model achieves high accuracies and low false alarm rates

Investigating the in-plane mechanical behavior of URM piers via DSFM

In this paper we use the novel Disturbed Stress Field Model (DSFM) from Facconi et al. (2013) to model the lateral in-plane behaviour of different unreinforced masonry (URM) walls which we tested at the laboratory of the EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. The model uses the failure criterion developed by Ganz (1985) for URM and is implemented in the software VecTor 2. In the first part of this article, we show that the DSFM gives good estimates for the initial stiffness of the walls but underestimates the displacement and force capacity of our URM walls. This is due to the confinement of the mortar base joint which is confined by the wall foundation. However, we show that this phenomenon can be accounted for by replacing the compression strength of the masonry of the first brick layer by the strength of the brick itself. Using this improved model, we compare the numerical results to the experimental results with regard to displacements and strains. We show that the simplification of the masonry to a continuous material is correct when comparing the global engineering demand parameters (EDPs), e.g., force-displacement behaviour of the walls or crack pattern. However, when comparing local EDPs, e.g., strains and crack widths, significant differences can be obtained. These differences are mainly caused by the torque of the bricks inside the walls (Mann and Müller, 1982). We show that this distortion gets less important with increasing shear span and that for a wall with higher shear span the assumption of a continuous material gives reasonable results even at the local level

The aperiodic facility layout problem with time-varying demands and an optimal master-slave solution approach

In many seasonal industries, customer demands are constantly changing over time, and accordingly the facility layout should be re-optimized in a timely manner to adapt to changing material handling patterns among manufacturing departments. This paper investigates the aperiodic facility layout problem (AFLP) that involves arranging facilities layout and re-layout aperiodically in a dynamic manufacturing environment during a given planning horizon. The AFLP is decomposed into a master problem and a combination set of static facility layout problems (FLPs, the slave problems) without loss of optimality, and all problems are formulated as mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) models that can be solved by MIP solvers for small-sized problems. An exact backward dynamic programming (BDP) algorithm with a computational complexity of O(n 2) is developed for the master problem, and an improved linear programming based problem evolution algorithm (PEA-LP) is developed for the traditional static FLP. Computational experiments are conducted on two new problems and twelve well-known benchmark problems from the literature, and the experimental results show that the proposed solution approach is promising for solving the AFLP with practical sizes of problem instances. In addition, the improved PEA-LP found new best solutions for five benchmark problems

The genome evolution and domestication of tropical fruit mango

Background: Mango is one of the world’s most important tropical fruits. It belongs to the family Anacardiaceae, which includes several other economically important species, notably cashew, sumac and pistachio from other genera. Many species in this family produce family-specific urushiols and related phenols, which can induce contact dermatitis. Results: We generate a chromosome-scale genome assembly of mango, providing a reference genome for the Anacardiaceae family. Our results indicate the occurrence of a recent whole-genome duplication (WGD) event in mango. Duplicated genes preferentially retained include photosynthetic, photorespiration, and lipid metabolic genes that may have provided adaptive advantages to sharp historical decreases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperatures. A notable example of an extended gene family is the chalcone synthase (CHS) family of genes, and particular genes in this family show universally higher expression in peels than in flesh, likely for the biosynthesis of urushiols and related phenols. Genome resequencing reveals two distinct groups of mango varieties, with commercial varieties clustered with India germplasms and demonstrating allelic admixture, and indigenous varieties from Southeast Asia in the second group. Landraces indigenous in China formed distinct clades, and some showed admixture in genomes. Conclusions: Analysis of chromosome-scale mango genome sequences reveals photosynthesis and lipid metabolism are preferentially retained after a recent WGD event, and expansion of CHS genes is likely associated with urushiol biosynthesis in mango. Genome resequencing clarifies two groups of mango varieties, discovers allelic admixture in commercial varieties, and shows distinct genetic background of landraces