Abstract: Disclosed are a method, device, computer system for obtaining respiratory signal. The method includes: filtering aliasing vital signs signals obtained by piezoelectric sensor to obtain target vital signs signals; performing a Fourier transform to obtain first frequency response, and generating an upper envelope according to each frequency point of the first frequency response; determining main peak frequency point and main peak amplitude according to the frequency point corresponding to the maximum value of flat tops; identifying the flat top corresponding to the main peak amplitude as main peak flat top; determining minimum value frequency point according to the minimum value between the main peak flat top and an adjacent flat top or flat bottom; and determining respiratory spectrum principal component interval according to the minimum value frequency point; reconstructing the respiratory spectrum principal component interval through an empirical wavelet function to obtain reconstructed respiratory signal.

Abstract: According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, a solution is proposed for three-dimensional (3D) object detection. In this solution, feature representations of a plurality of points are extracted from point cloud data related to a 3D object. Initial feature representations of a set of candidate 3D objects are determined based on the feature representations of the plurality of points. Based on the feature representations of the plurality of points and the initial feature representations of the set of candidate 3D objects, a detection result for the 3D object is generated by determining self-correlations between the set of candidate 3D objects and cross-correlations between the plurality of points and the set of candidate 3D objects. In this way, without grouping points into candidate 3D objects, the 3D object in a 3D scene can be localized and recognized based on the self-correlations and cross-correlations.

Abstract: A transaction record is created showing a purchase transaction of a customer. A CV profile showing a list of items in the transaction obtained from images is also obtained. The items in the transaction record are compared to items on the list. When there is a discrepancy, an action to take is determined.

Abstract: A method for comprehensively analyzing and/or evaluating cigarette burning quality index is disclosed. The steps include collecting cigarette burning quality index data, filtering the cigarette burning quality index data, standardizing cigarette data, and measuring cigarette burning quality. The importance of the cigarette burning quality indicators can also be evaluated. The method for comprehensively analyzing and/or evaluating cigarette burning quality indicators can reflect general laws more accurately by maintaining the sample distribution through a singularity detection method, and analyzing correlations of each index with cigarette performance from multiple perspectives, to fuse them into a comprehensive measurement value. The importance ranking and weight of indicators can be obtained more completely and stably.

Abstract: An example device for decoding video data includes: a memory configured to store video data; and a processing system comprising one or more processors implemented in circuitry, the processing system being configured to: determine whether motion information of a block of video data is for sub-blocks of the block larger than individual pixels of the block or for the individual pixels, the block being associated with data indicating that the block is to be predicted using affine motion compensation; in response to determining that the motion information of the block is for the sub-blocks, perform sub-block-based affine motion compensation to form a prediction block for the block; in response to determining that the motion information is for the individual pixels, perform pixel-based affine motion compensation to form the prediction block for the block; and decode the block using the prediction block.

Abstract: A shift register unit, a driving method, a drive circuit, and a display apparatus are disclosed. The shift register unit includes: a control circuit, which is configured to adjust signals of a first node and a second node according to an input signal end, a first control signal end, a second control signal end and a first reference signal end; a cascade circuit, which is configured to provide, according to the signal of the first node, a signal of a first cascade clock signal end to a cascade output end; and an output circuit, which is configured to provide, according to the signal of the first node, a signal of a control clock signal end to a drive output end, and provide, according to the signal of the second node, a signal of a second reference signal end to the drive output end.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a plurality of unlabeled audio samples corresponding to spoken utterances not paired with corresponding transcriptions. At a target branch of a contrastive Siamese network, the method also includes generating a sequence of encoder outputs for the plurality of unlabeled audio samples and modifying time characteristics of the encoder outputs to generate a sequence of target branch outputs. At an augmentation branch of a contrastive Siamese network, the method also includes performing augmentation on the unlabeled audio samples, generating a sequence of augmented encoder outputs for the augmented unlabeled audio samples, and generating predictions of the sequence of target branch outputs generated at the target branch. The method also includes determining an unsupervised loss term based on target branch outputs and predictions of the sequence of target branch outputs. The method also includes updating parameters of the audio encoder based on the unsupervised loss term.

Abstract: A method for determining a consistency coefficient of a power-law cement grout includes: determining a water-cement ratio of the power-law cement grout; according to engineering practice requirements, determining a time required to determine the consistency coefficient of the power-law cement grout; and obtaining the consistency coefficient of the power-law cement grout. The method is accurate and reliable, requires less calculation, etc.; and has very high practical value and popularization value in environmental protection and ecological restoration.

Abstract: Systems, computer-readable media, and methods are disclosed for parallel data processing for service function chains with network functions spanning multiple servers. An example system includes a first server hosting a first network function of a service function chain, a second server hosting a second network function of the service function chain, a mirror function deployed in a first switch to replicate a plurality of packets received by the system and to send respective copies of the plurality of packets to the first network function and to at least one of the second network function and a third network function of the service function chain, and a merge function deployed in a second switch to merge respective outputs of the first network function and the at least one of the second network function and the third network function.

Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility include an image capture device configured to move about the product storage areas of the product storage facility and capture images of the product storage areas from various angles. A computing device coupled to the image capture device obtains the images of the product storage areas captured by the image capture device and processes the obtained images of the product storage areas to detect individual products captured in the obtained images. Based on detection of the individual products captured in the images, the computing device analyzes each of the obtained images to extract meta data from the packaging the individual products to detect one more keywords and determine the locations of the detected keywords on the packaging, and then utilize this information to predict an identity of the products associated with the packaging.

Abstract: An example device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and a processing system comprising one or more processors implemented in circuitry, the processing system being configured to: refine a first control point motion vector (CPMV) of a current block of the video data using a first decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) process to form a first refined CPMV for the current block; refine a second CPMV of the current block of video data using a second DMVR process, independently of the first DMVR process, to form a second refined CPMV for the current block; form a prediction block for the current block using the first refined CPMV and the second refined CPMV; and decode the current block using the prediction block. In some examples, the CPMVs may each be decoded using a respective merge index and a respective motion vector difference (MVD).

Abstract: Encoding and decoding video data using an affine decoder side motion vector derivation (DMVR) mode includes receiving a block of video data to be decoded using the affine DMVR mode, and dividing the block into a plurality of subblocks. A video encoder and video decoder may determine a final offset for the affine DMVR mode using a first subset of the plurality of subblocks. The video encoder and decoder may code the block of video data using the final offset to generate a coded block of video data.

Abstract: A preparation method for a silver (Ag) and graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) co-modified zinc oxide (ZnO) nanocomposite material using a polymer network gel method includes: dispersing zinc oxide, bulk graphitic carbon nitride, and a soluble silver salt in water to obtain a first solution; adding glucose, a complexing agent, a polymer monomer, and a cross-linking agent into the first solution to obtain a second solution; performing a heating reaction on the second solution to obtain a three-dimensional network wet gel; drying the three-dimensional network wet gel to obtain a dry gel, and calcining the dry gel to obtain the Ag and g-C3N4 co-modified ZnO nanocomposite material. The preparation method has advantages of low cost, short period and simple steps; and the prepared nanocomposite material can be simultaneously applied to photocatalytic degradation of organic dye pollutants and photoexcitation detection of nitrogen dioxide gas at room temperature.

Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility include an image capture device configured to move about the product storage areas of the product storage facility and capture images of the product storage areas from various angles. A computing device coupled to the image capture device obtains the images of the product storage areas captured by the image capture device and processes the obtained images of the product storage areas to detect individual products captured in the obtained images. Based on detection of the individual products captured in the images, the computing device analyzes each of the obtained images to detect one or more adjacent product storage structures (shelves, pallets, etc.) and identifies and selects a single image that fully shows a product storage structure of interest and fully shows each of the products stored on the product storage structure of interest.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for treating liver cirrhosis by using a composition including mesenchymal stem cells, extracellular vesicles produced by the mesenchymal stem cells, and growth factors. The composition of the present disclosure achieves the effect of treating liver cirrhosis through various efficacy experiments.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improvement to prior art feature pyramids for general object detection that inserts a simple norm calibration (NC) operation between the feature pyramids and detection head to alleviate and balance the norm bias caused by feature pyramid network (FPN) and which leverages an enhanced multi-feature selective strategy (MS) during training to assign the ground-truth to one or more levels of the feature pyramid.

Abstract: In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a spoofing alert message from either a server or an internet-of-things (IOT) device that indicates whether a spoofed Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) condition is present. Based on determining that the spoofing alert message indicates that a spoofed GNSS condition is present, the UE determines, based on the spoofing alert message, a location of a spoofer broadcasting a spoofed GNSS signal, determines, based on the location of the spoofer and a current location of the UE, that the UE is within a receiving area of the spoofed GNSS signal, and determines a position of the UE without using the spoofed GNSS signal.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for vector-quantized image modeling using vision transformers and improved codebook handling. In particular, the present disclosure provides a Vector-quantized Image Modeling (VIM) approach that involves pretraining a machine learning model (e.g., Transformer model) to predict rasterized image tokens autoregressively. The discrete image tokens can be encoded from a learned Vision-Transformer-based VQGAN (example implementations of which can be referred to as ViT-VQGAN). The present disclosure proposes multiple improvements over vanilla VQGAN from architecture to codebook learning, yielding better efficiency and reconstruction fidelity. The improved ViT-VQGAN further improves vector-quantized image modeling tasks, including unconditional image generation, conditioned image generation (e.g., class-conditioned image generation), and unsupervised representation learning.

Abstract: A bearing unit includes a radially inner ring, a radially outer ring comprising a lubricant inlet, a plurality of rolling bodies interposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, and a first seal. The first seal includes an axially outer sealing ring, an axially inner sealing ring, and a first sealing lip formed on an axially inner surface of the axially inner sealing ring and extending axially inward to make sealing contact with an axially outer surface of the axially inner sealing ring. The first sealing lip prevents lubricant from flowing from an interior of the bearing unit to an exterior of the bearing unit at a first axial end of the bearing unit, and the first seal is disposed axially outside the inlet of the radially outer ring.

Abstract: A computing system is provided, including one or more processors configured to provide a social media platform configured to serve a content feed to a user. The processor is further configured to generate user content interaction information by detecting user interactions with the content feed and provide a recommendation engine that selects content items for display in the content feed based on the generated user content interaction information. The processor is further configured to receive a refresh request to refresh the recommendation engine and refresh the recommendation engine at least in part by masking or resetting the user content interaction information upon receiving the refresh request. After the refresh, the processor is further configured to generate, via the recommendation engine, post-refresh content items based on the masked or reset user content interaction information, and transmit the post-refresh content items to the user device for display in the content feed.