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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Kilian Vos, Wen Deng, Mitchell Dean Harley, Ian Lloyd Turner, Kristen Dena Marie Splinter
Summary: Sandy beaches undergo constant reshaping by waves, tides, currents, and winds. The beach face, the area between land and ocean, is crucial for coastal processes such as wave energy dissipation and sediment exchange. However, datasets of beach-face slopes remain unavailable for most coastlines worldwide. This study introduces a new dataset for the Australian coastline, derived from remote sensing, which provides beach-face slope estimates and confidence measures. The dataset offers valuable information for predicting coastal hazards in Australia.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2022)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Chaofeng Chen, Dihong Gong, Hao Wang, Zhifeng Li, Kwan-Yee K. Wong
Summary: This paper introduces a novel SPatial Attention Residual Network (SPARNet) built on Face Attention Units (FAUs) for face super-resolution, which effectively extracts key features of facial structures by introducing a spatial attention mechanism. Through quantitative comparisons and the introduction of multi-scale discriminators, the method demonstrates superiority in various metrics and the ability to generate high-resolution images.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sonia Poltoratski, Kendrick Kay, Dawn Finzi, Kalanit Grill-Spector
Summary: It is unknown how spatial processing in high-level regions contributes to recognition behavior, but this study found that in face-selective regions, pRFs and overall visual field coverage are smaller and shifted down in response to face inversion. The researchers successfully predicted the relative behavioral detriment of face inversion based on these measurements, demonstrating a correspondence between neural measurements and behavior. The study suggests that spatial processing in high-level visual regions may enable holistic perception and bridge neural computations by receptive fields to behavior.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Linda Drijvers, Judith Holler
Summary: This study demonstrates that face-to-face spatial orientation induces a special 'social mode' for neurocognitive processing during conversation, even in the absence of visibility.
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Biology
Jiedong Zhang, Yong Jiang, Yunjie Song, Peng Zhang, Sheng He
Summary: The study revealed consistent spatial tuning to different face parts within specific face-selective regions, with the posterior portion of the right posterior fusiform face area and right occipital face area biased towards eyes, while the anterior portion biased towards mouth and chin stimuli. This systematic spatial tuning within occipital and fusiform face processing regions supports further computation combining different face parts.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Juan P. Perez, Claudio A. Perez
Summary: This paper proposes a set of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) designed to extract face features in specific face pose orientations using neuroevolution. Experimental results on multiple datasets show that the proposed method outperforms existing techniques.
Article
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Qiangchang Wang, Guodong Guo
Summary: The proposed DSA-Face network model aims to learn diverse and sparse attentions to extract diverse discriminative local representations and suppress focus on noisy regions. The model outperforms previous methods in handling masked face matching tasks and also performs well on other FR benchmarks.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY
(2021)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Stephanie Best, Janet C. Long, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Natalie Taylor
Summary: Clinical genomics requires collaboration between physicians, laboratory scientists, and genetic professionals. Understanding the underlying processes from the perspective of nongenetic physicians new to the field is important for scaling up genomics. Through interviews with nongenetic physicians using clinical genomics, a process map with 7 steps was used to identify adaptable components for scaling up clinical genomics.
GENETICS IN MEDICINE
(2023)
Review
Construction & Building Technology
Takemi Sugiyama, Nyssa Hadgraft, Bronwyn K. Clark, David W. Dunstan, Agustin Chevez, Genevieve N. Healy, Ester Cerin, Anthony D. LaMontagne, Ai Shibata, Koichiro Oka, Neville Owen
Summary: Office spatial design can impact workers' sitting behavior and face-to-face interactions. Open-plan offices may reduce sitting time and increase breaks of sitting, while closer proximity among coworkers may lead to more frequent and longer face-to-face interactions.
BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Andrew D. King
Summary: This study used observational data to compute spatial climate analogs to identify and quantify past changes. Climate shifts were found, particularly in Darwin where temperature variability is lower than in extratropical cities. Extremes analogs, including a human health-relevant climate analog, were constructed and highlighted significant climate shifts. Analogues can also be used to examine extreme events and communicate future change.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Fisheries
Rebekah Grieger, Samantha J. Capon, Wade L. Hadwen, Brendan Mackey
Summary: Coastal freshwater wetlands in southeast Queensland, Australia are understudied and vulnerable to climate changes. The study found that vegetation patterns were associated with gradients of rainfall, soil moisture, salinity, and pH. Species composition in the understorey was related to wetland species, native grasses and herbs, and canopy vegetation. Common species like Melaleuca quinquenervia and Eucalyptus tereticornis dominated tree variation.
MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH
(2021)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Yilei Chen, Shengwu Xiong
Summary: One-shot face reenactment is addressed in this paper by proposing a novel and interpretable framework based on spatial-temporal reconstruction views. The framework achieves precise transfer of facial expressions and intuitive control over the generated images by using the 3D Morphable Face Model (3DMM) as an immediate representation. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework in improving the robustness of motion reconstruction, especially for large-scale head movements.
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Nidhi Nishant, Steven Sherwood, Abhnil Prasad, Fei Ji, Ajit Singh
Summary: Coarse resolution datasets poorly capture precipitation properties. Increasing spatial resolution does not necessarily improve local simulation accuracy for precipitation.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Lingyun Yu, Jun Yu, Mengyan Li, Qiang Ling
Summary: This research aims to generate talking face videos with accurate lip synchronization by decomposing the task into mouth landmarks prediction and video synthesis steps. It overcomes limitations of existing works by proposing a multimodal learning method and a network named Face2Vid. Experimental results show the approach can generate photo-realistic video frames with accurate lip synchronization and smooth facial movements transition.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Jinyan Ma, Jing Li, Bo Du, Jia Wu, Jun Wan, Yafu Xiao
Summary: The proposed face alignment algorithm DSCN combines capsule network and attention mechanism to address occlusion issues, achieving low failure rates and small mean errors on multiple datasets.
PATTERN RECOGNITION
(2022)