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Computer Science, Software Engineering
Dong Du, Heming Zhu, Yinyu Nie, Xiaoguang Han, Shuguang Cui, Yizhou Yu, Ligang Liu
Summary: This paper proposes to change the modeling approach from holistic shapes to individual part generation and automated assembly, aiming to simplify the modeling process and ensure high-quality outputs.
COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM
(2021)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Avi Abu, Roee Diamant
Summary: This paper proposes a feature characterization method that can discriminate between man-made and natural objects on the seabed. Two new contour-based feature descriptors are introduced to better identify man-made objects. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a high level of classification accuracy and good discrimination between man-made and natural objects.
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
(2022)
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Ecology
Kaya Kuru, Stuart Clough, Darren Ansell, John McCarthy, Stephanie Mcgovern
Summary: This article introduces the diversity and productivity of the marine economy, as well as the importance of using marine mechatronics solutions to automatically detect and monitor man-made objects in the marine environment. The new method used in this study does not require prior training and can accurately detect and segment irregularly shaped man-made objects in the ocean.
ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
(2023)
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Geochemistry & Geophysics
Keyang Chen, Zongxu Pan, Ben Niu, Wen Hong, Yuxin Hu, Chibiao Ding
Summary: This letter proposes an improved convolutional neural network method, DSN-v2, to enhance the classification ability of man-made and natural objects in SAR images. The improvement includes the design of a multiscale subband feature extraction component and the introduction of an additive angular margin loss. Experimental results demonstrate that DSN-v2 achieves superior classification performance and model training speed compared with DSN-v1.
IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
(2023)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Paul Connetable, Knut Conradsen, Allan Aasbjerg Nielsen, Henning Skriver
Summary: This paper investigates the removal of speckle and the characteristics of the local covariance matrix in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Test statistics based on block-diagonality and change detection are used to detect man-made structures with high potential. The results show that the method is effective in highlighting buildings and urban areas, as well as in ship detection at longer wavelengths.
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING
(2022)
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Engineering, Marine
Valery Bobkov, Alexey Kudryashov, Alexander Inzartsev
Summary: This paper proposes a method for accurate navigation of AUVs in a distributed SPS by utilizing video information, based on object recognition and computation of AUV coordinates relative to SPS objects. The stable high accuracy during continuous movement of the AUV in SPS space is achieved through regular updating of the AUV coordinate references to SPS objects.
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2021)
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Psychology, Biological
Austin Moon, Chenxi He, Annie S. Ditta, Olivia S. Cheung, Rachel Wu
Summary: Visual recognition happens at different categorization levels, and the search advantage for animals emerges early and is biased towards the basic level.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Carlo Branchina, Vincenzo Branchina, Filippo Contino
Summary: We propose a new solution for the naturalness/hierarchy problem, explaining the fine-tuning of the Higgs mass and the multiplicative renormalization as an infrared property of the nonperturbative running of the mass.
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Environmental Sciences
Fabian Sommer, Bettina Sonntag, Nikolai Rastl, Monika Summerer, Barbara Tartarotti
Summary: Climate warming has various impacts on the Alpine region, particularly on winter sports tourism, leading to the construction of mountain reservoirs for artificial snow making. The planktonic communities in these reservoirs are affected not only by the harsh environmental conditions of the alpine region but also by rapid water level fluctuations. This study focused on ciliates and found that their abundance and community composition in the mountain reservoirs were influenced by local factors like pH, nutrients, water transparency, and crustacean predators.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Shuichiro Funatsu, Hisaki Hatanaka, Yutaka Hosotani, Yuta Orikasa, Naoki Yamatsu
Summary: In this study, we investigate the effects of Z' bosons in gauge-Higgs unification models on e(+)e(-) Bhabha scatterings. By evaluating the differential cross sections in Bhabha scatterings, including Z' bosons, in two types of SO(5)xU(1) x SU(3) GHU models, we observe deviations from the Standard Model. Furthermore, a new observable is proposed for future TeV-scale e(+)e(-) linear colliders.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Andrei Angelescu, Andreas Bally, Simone Blasi, Florian Goertz
Summary: In this paper, we present a minimal viable gauge-Higgs grand unification scenario in warped space based on a SU(6) bulk symmetry. The issue of light exotic new states is eliminated by breaking the gauge symmetry on the UV and IR boundaries, and the Standard Model fermion spectrum is naturally reproduced. The Higgs potential at one loop is computed and solutions with a realistic m(h) similar to 125 GeV are found.
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Automation & Control Systems
Hao Feng, Jianzhong Wu, Lu Zhang, Mingsheng Liao
Summary: This study proposes an unsupervised framework for man-made object change detection using multi-temporal SAR images. By combining coherent and incoherent features, the initial change pixels are transformed into noiseless object-level patches, and the change pattern of each patch is determined. The experiment demonstrates the effectiveness of this method in urban scenes and its potential for wide area change detection.
JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS
(2022)
Review
Infectious Diseases
Shian Lai, Quan Zhang, Lin Jin
Summary: Due to the abuse of antibiotics, an increasing number of drug-resistant bacterial strains have emerged, posing a serious threat to human and animal health. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have proven to be one of the most effective solutions, as they exhibit low propensity for drug resistance and possess remarkable antimicrobial effects. Among them, cyclic AMPs, especially macrocyclic ones, have garnered extensive attention.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sumanta Chakraborty, Sayak Datta, Subhadip Sau
Summary: The phase information from tidal heating in the gravitational wave waveform can constrain the tidal charge inherited from extra dimensions to a value of around 10^-6, providing the most stringent constraint to date. Additionally, second order effects in tidal heating for exotic compact objects reveal oscillatory behavior with respect to spin, which has unique signatures.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Nejla B. Erdal, Minna Hakkarainen
Summary: Biodegradable polymers play a crucial role in combating plastic waste, but their degradation process can be influenced by various factors such as chemical modification and environmental conditions in different environments.