Abstract: Disclosed is a secret-key provisioning (SKP) method and device based on an optical line terminal (OLT), which can generate an SKP queue according to key requests received; generate at least one secret-key according to the SKP queue; and store the at least one secret-key in key pools (KPs) of corresponding ONUS. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium is also disclosed.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a casino patron engagement system that facilitates engagement among casino employees and casino patrons to engender patron loyalty.

Abstract: A device for detecting a slot wedge, an air gap and a broken rotor bar is provided, where a sequential circuit generates double concurrent pulses; the sequential circuit is connected to driving power modules; the driving power modules are connected to front-end interface circuits; the front-end interface circuits convert the double concurrent pulses into corresponding magnetic-field pulses; the magnetic-field pulses are transmitted to power supply terminals on adjacent phases of stator windings through impedance matching pins and coupled at a corresponding coil, air gap and squirrel cage rotor to generate single groups of cyclic rotating magnetic potentials; single rotating magnetic potentials are sequentially generated in adjacent slots on each of the phases of the stator windings; rotating electric potentials in magnetic circuits with two symmetrical phases are magnetically coupled to form distributed coupling magnetic field reflected full-cycle waves for reflecting a difference of a corresponding slot wedg

Abstract: A visual dialogue method and system is provided. The method includes obtaining original input data, where the original input data includes current image data and a new question, and the new question is related to the current image data; preprocessing text data and image data in the original input data to obtain a text feature sequence and a visual feature sequence, respectively; using a VisDial dataset to construct a text corpus; obtaining text sequence knowledge by using a potential knowledge searcher based on the visual feature sequence and the text corpus; constructing a sparse scene graph based on the visual feature sequence; performing data fusion on the text feature sequence, the visual feature sequence, the text sequence knowledge, and the sparse scene graph to obtain a data fusion result; and obtaining dialogue content of the new question by using a decoder based on the data fusion result.

Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, the granularity of value(s) of a chroma residual scaling factor can be controlled through explicit signaling of information on the value(s) of the chroma residual scaling factor. In addition, chroma residual scaling can be efficiently performed through implicit derivation of the information on the value(s) of the chroma residual scaling factor.

Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, for LMCS, a linear reshaper may be used, LMCS codewords (or ranges thereof) may be restricted, and in the chroma scaling of the LMCS, a single chroma residual scaling factor may be used. Accordingly, the resources/cost (of software or hardware) necessary for an LMCS procedure may be minimized, and latency in coding may be eliminated, thus enabling the LMCS procedure to be efficiently performed.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a rolling ring shrink fitting tool for rotary equipment, including a lifting frame; a movement slot is formed in a bottom surface of a top of the lifting frame; an output end of a first motor is connected with a main gear; guide rollers are embedded in a lifting seat through bearings; shrink fitting plates are two semicircular structures; lifting lugs are welded on outer sides of the shrink fitting plates; tooth rings are arranged outside the shrink fitting plates; stop rods are fixed on inner walls of the tooth rings; supporting screw rods are embedded at sunken positions on inner walls of the shrink fitting plates through bearings.

Abstract: A video decoding method performed by a video decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: acquiring image information from a bitstream, the image information including a picture header associated with the current picture including a plurality of slices; parsing, from the picture header, a first flag indicating whether information necessary for an inter-prediction operation for a decoding process is present in the picture header; parsing, from the picture header, a second flag indicating whether information necessary for an intra-prediction operation for the decoding process is present in the picture header; and generating prediction samples by performing at least one of intra-prediction or inter-prediction for the slices in the current picture on the basis of the first flag or the second flag.

Abstract: The present application provides an electrode assembly and a processing method and apparatus therefor, a battery cell, a battery, and a power consuming device. The electrode assembly includes: a cathode plate, an anode plate, and a separator, where the separator is configured to separate the cathode plate from the anode plate, a closed-pore portion is provided in part of the region of the separator, and the closed-pore portion is configured to block at least some ions de-intercalated from the cathode plate located on one side of the closed-pore portion from being intercalated into the anode plate located on the other side of the closed-pore portion. Heating the separator to form the closed-pore portion can reduce the occurrence of lithium precipitation.

Abstract: A method of crowdsourcing annotation for medical image data based on image comparison, includes developing an annotation task; acquiring and verifying medical images according to requirements of the annotation task, and performing statistics on the medical images that meet verification standards to obtain an amount of image data acquired; archiving the medical images that meet the verification standards to form a medical image database; setting up annotation rules, and generating annotation schemes and annotation samples according to the requirements of the annotation task and annotation rules; distributing the medical images in the medical image database to multiple crowdsourcing annotation sides, so that each medical image being annotated by the multiple crowdsourcing annotation sides; annotating, by the crowdsourcing annotation sides, the distributed medical images according to the annotation schemes and the annotation examples to form the annotated images; and merging multiple annotated images correspondi

Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, by explicitly signaling information relating to a value(s) of a chroma residual scaling factor, accuracy in an LMCS procedure can be increased, and therefore a subjective/objective image quality of a coded image/video can be further improved.

Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, LMCS may also be applied to a block having a dual tree structure. In addition, the number of LMCS APS may be limited. Therefore, an LMCS procedure may be efficiently performed, and the complexity of LMCS may be reduced. As the performance of LMCS is improved, the video/image coding efficiency may be increased.

Abstract: According to embodiment(s) disclosed in the present document, a reshaper model used in coding including LMCS can modify a value of a delta codeword on the basis of luma bit depth and perform reshaping on the basis of determination on whether or not a reshaper is linear, and thus, signaling overhead at a higher bit depth and overhead for signaling values of delta codewords for all bins can be reduced.

Abstract: A modified nucleoside or nucleotide, the 3?-OH of the modified nucleoside or nucleotide being reversibly blocked; meanwhile, the present invention also relates to a kit comprising the nucleoside or nucleotide, and a sequencing method based on the nucleoside or nucleotide.

Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, an ID value of an LMCS APS may be within a predetermined range. Thus, an LMCS procedure can be efficiently performed, and the complexity of LMCS is reduced. Since the performance of LMCS is improved, efficiency of video/image coding may increase.

Abstract: A precoding weight calculation method and a related apparatus to provide improved communication quality. First channel estimation values and a plurality of second channel estimation values are obtained based on a resource block group. A first equalization coefficient is obtained based on the first channel estimation values. A second equalization coefficient is obtained based on the second channel estimation values. A plurality of first equivalent channel coefficients are obtained based on the first equalization coefficient. A plurality of second equivalent channel coefficients are obtained based on the second equalization coefficient. A first precoding weight and a second precoding weight are obtained based on the plurality of first equivalent channel coefficients and the plurality of second equivalent channel coefficients.

Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, ALF parameters and/or LMCS parameters may be hierarchically signaled, thereby enabling a reduction in data volume to be signaled for video/image coding and an increase in coding efficiency.

Abstract: Implementations relate to crop yield prediction at the field- and pixel-level. In various implementations, a first temporal sequence of high-elevation digital images may be obtained that capture a first geographic area and are acquired over a first predetermined time interval while the first geographic area includes a particular crop. A first plurality of other data points may also be obtained that influence a ground truth crop yield of the first geographic area after the first predetermined time interval. The first plurality of other data points may be grouped into temporal chunks corresponding temporally with respective images of the first temporal sequence. The first temporal sequence and the temporal chunks of the first plurality of other data points may be applied, e.g., iteratively, as input across a machine learning model to estimate a crop yield of the first geographic area at the end of the first predetermined time interval.

Abstract: An urban data prediction method based on a generative causal interpretation model is provided. The generative causal interpretation model includes exogenous variables, spatio-temporal conditional parent variables, controlled causal transition functions, and spatio-temporal mixing functions. By inferring the model's exogenous variables, causal descriptors, spatio-temporal conditional parent variables, and other causal latent variables from the observation data and fitting the corresponding functions such as the controlled causal transfer function and the spatio-temporal mixing function, the invention can predict the spatio-temporal data in city level based on the model. The observation data of the urban complex system can be decomposed into causal descriptors with physical meanings. Under the influence of stable causal structure, the robustness and applicability of the model can be improved, so that the prediction results are more in line with the operation of urban complex systems.

Abstract: A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining image information from a bitstream, wherein the image information includes a picture header associated with a current picture, and the current picture includes a plurality of slices; parsing at least one of a first flag and a second flag from the picture header; generating prediction samples by performing at least one of intra prediction and inter prediction on a current block in the current picture on the basis of at least one of the first flag and the second flag; generating reconstructed samples on the basis of the prediction samples; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the reconstructed samples.