Abstract: A system and method of re-identifying players in a broadcast video feed are provided herein. A computing system retrieves a broadcast video feed for a sporting event. The broadcast video feed includes a plurality of video frames. The computing system generates a plurality of tracks based on the plurality of video frames. Each track includes a plurality of image patches associated with at least one player. Each image patch of the plurality of image patches is a subset of the corresponding frame of the plurality of video frames. For each track, the computing system generates a gallery of image patches. A jersey number of each player is visible in each image patch of the gallery. The computing system matches, via a convolutional autoencoder, tracks across galleries. The computing system measures, via a neural network, a similarity score for each matched track and associates two tracks based on the measured similarity.

Abstract: What is disclosed is methods and systems for monitoring micro-object movements. Images depicting micro-objects moving across a backplane is received. Based on processing by a machine learning based image processing model, a first location and orientation of each micro-object in a first image and a second location and orientation of each micro-object in a second image is determined. Based on estimates of forces applied during a time between capture of the first and second images, movement during the time of a micro-object in the first image is estimated. A likely image of the micro-object in the second image is inferred based on the likely image having a location and orientation in the second image that corresponds to a combination of the movement and the location and orientation of the micro-object in the first image. An indication that the micro-object in the first image corresponds to the likely image is output.

Abstract: Provided are a method and a system for generating a human animation from SMPL series parameters. An animation generation method according to an embodiment includes: extracting, by a motion extraction module, motion information from an image content; converting, by a motion conversion module, the extracted motion information into parameters required by an animation generation module; and generating, by the animation generation module, a motion image of a human object from the converted motion information. Accordingly, an animation accurately showing motions of an object appearing in an image content by a more realistic 3D model may be generated and digital human contents of high reality may be created and used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating autoimmune, microbial, metabolic, neoplastic, and posttraumatic diseases mediated by inflammation in a subject. Compositions and methods including at least one importin beta-selective nuclear transport modifier (NTM) and/or at least one importin alpha-selective NTM, and/or at least one importin alpha-specific NTM, and/or at least one inhibitor of importin alpha and importin beta complex formation may be administered to a subject to modulate the transport of transcription factors, mediated by nuclear import adaptors, into the nucleus of a cell resulting in a decrease or abrogation of inflammation.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include a bio-electric stimulation probe assembly including a patch including a first aperture and also a guide socket including a grommet and a second aperture. The guide socket is positioned on the patch such that the first and second apertures are aligned. The assembly further includes a guide including a tip that is positioned within and rotatable within the grommet. A probe of the assembly having at least one electrode is interconnected with the guide and extends through the first and second apertures. The guide and guide socket are collectively arranged and configured so that the guide has three degrees of rotational freedom with respect to the grommet thus meaning the probe correspondingly has three degrees of rotational freedom with respect to the grommet. Methods of using stimulation probe assemblies are also disclosed.

Abstract: To accurately perform movement control of a moving body, a machine tool includes a feed driver that moves a moving body in the machine tool, a feedback controller that feedback-controls the feed driver in accordance with a state variable, a friction compensator that, to compensate for rolling friction that occurs in the feed driver, adds, in advance, a friction compensation value obtained from measurement data of rolling friction or a friction compensation value calculated using a rolling friction model to a command value to be input to the feed driver, and a reverse response reducer that reduces, using the state variable of the feedback controller, a reverse response that occurs due to addition of the friction compensation value.

Abstract: A Munitions Payload Delivery System (MPDS) is provided. One embodiment of the MPDS comprises a multi-rotor drone configured to carry a munition in the form of a HEDP linear-shaped charge or Armor Piercing munition or other-shaped munition. The drone, in one embodiment, includes a camera that provides a remote operator with a real-time video feed so the operator can pilot the drone to a specific target on a battlefield. Once a target is selected, the operator ignites the munition by flying the drone into the target, landing the drone on the target, or activating a radio fire button. In one embodiment, each of these mechanisms closes a switch on board the drone connecting a voltage to a blasting cap inside the payload.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of storage and/or transport of an ethylenically unsaturated compound, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated compound is protected against unwanted free-radical polymerization with a phenol.

Abstract: Provided herein are specific TRAIL receptor agonist proteins, nucleic acids encoding the same, and methods of treating a subject having a TRAIL-associated disease or disorder. The TRAIL receptor agonist proteins provided herein comprise three soluble TRAIL domains and an Fc fragment. The TRAIL receptor agonist proteins are substantially non-aggregating and suitable for therapeutic, diagnostic and/or research applications.

Abstract: The present invention provides a protein capable of preventing viral infection and having glucocerebrosidase activity. There is provided a protein, (a) containing an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 or an amino acid sequence having identity of 90% or more therewith, (b) being added with no sugar chain, and (c) having glucocerebrosidase activity.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a first bit line; a capacitor; and a first memory cell transistor and a second memory cell transistor that are coupled in series between the first bit line and the capacitor.

Abstract: A card may detect variations (e.g., position, velocity, acceleration and direction) of a read head in relation to the card. Based on certain parameters (e.g., card length, initially detected read head position, and read head velocity) the card may change communicated bit parameters (e.g., bit period) so that a total number of data bits may be communicated by the card to the read head while the read head remains within a communication distance of the card.

Abstract: A recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute: selecting, in a solution search using replicas based on an evaluation function including multiple state variables, a number of replicas from the replicas by prioritizing a replica with a low difference in temperature value from a first temperature of a first replica; acquiring a second state to be compared with the first state, using a state acquired by the solution search; determining the number of state variables of which values are to be changed, using comparison between a first value of the evaluation in the first state and a second value of the evaluation function in the second state; generating a third state in which the values of the number of state variables among the multiple state variables in the first state are changed; and continuing the solution search in the first replica by the third state.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: integrating unit that integrates, using observed event information representing an observed event that has been observed and rule information representing inference knowledge, a plurality of pieces of solution hypothesis information generated by weighted abduction processing; and detecting unit that detects differences between first integrated solution hypothesis information, which has been generated by the integrating means integrating one or more pieces of first solution hypothesis information generated using the observed event information and the rule information, and second integrated solution hypothesis information, which has been generated by the integrating means integrating one or more pieces of second solution hypothesis information generated when one or both of the observed event information and the rule information have changed.

Abstract: A system, method and process for product authentication and verification using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, blockchain technology (Hyperledger), and cryptography. A unique product identifier is generated for a unique individual product, incorporated into a data structure, and the data structure is recorded to a blockchain initiating an immutable record for the unique product identifier. An NFC tag is encoded with a tap-unique URL comprising the unique product identifier and a cryptographic output and affixed to the product. Each time the tag is tapped by a proximity coupling device, a web client operating on the proximity coupling device opens the URL whereupon the tag is verified using a cryptographic verification process and generating a verification result. The verification result is recorded on the blockchain ledger for the unique product identifier, thereby creating an immutable record of each tap interaction result.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: an estimating unit configured to estimate, using sample points extracted from a plurality of data points, tentative geometric parameters that fit the sample points; an error calculating unit configured to calculate errors between the plurality of data points and the tentative geometric parameters; a threshold value determining unit configured to calculate a boundary value for classifying a logarithmic space of the calculated errors into two or more classes, and determine a threshold value by transforming the calculated boundary value; and an updating unit configured to count a number of inliers for which the calculated errors are less than or equal to the calculated threshold value, and when the number of inliers counted increases, update current best geometric parameters and a current best number of inliers with the tentative geometric parameters and the number of inliers, respectively.

Abstract: A locker system having adjustable-sized lockers, the locker system comprising: a first movable partition disposed between a first wall and a second wall as an upstanding partition or between a third wall and a fourth wall as a shelf partition wherein the first wall, the second wall, the third wall, the fourth wall, and a fifth wall are configured to create an enclosed space and the first movable partition is disposed between two walls at a first position and the enclosed space is divided into a first compartment and a second compartment, each of the first compartment and the second compartment having an initial volume; a first door connected to one of the first wall, the second wall, the third wall, the fourth wall, and the fifth wall to enable access to the first compartment and a second door connected to one of the first wall, the second wall, the third wall, the fourth wall, and the fifth wall to enable access to the second compartment; a first locking mechanism corresponding to the first door and a second

Abstract: An example image processing device includes a first memory comprising a first look-up table, a second memory comprising a second look-up table, and a third memory comprising a third look-up table, a first processor and a second processor that are configured to output predetermined color values based on input color values using at least one of the first to third look-up tables, and a control logic circuit configured to control at least a portion of the first memory, the second memory, and the third memory. The control logic circuit is configured to, in response to receiving a read request for the first memory from each of the first and second processors, transmit data in the first look-up table to the first processor and to transmit data, obtained by performing an XOR operation on data in the third look-up table and data in the second look-up table, to the second processor.

Abstract: The present disclosure contemplates a system and a medical device such as a smartphone or tablet that can operate as a secure medical device for tracking consumption of medications dispensed to patients by gathering and creating medical quality data about consumed medications that are accurate, precise, legally binding, and reliable. This medical quality data can be securely stored in a patient's digital medication diary.

Abstract: This is a Nuclear Fusion Reactor using the Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Cycle (CNO) to generate energy in the form of heat and anti-matter particles such as positrons. The “Carbon Fusion Reactor” is heated to a self-sustaining reaction by the introduction of sodium 22 which decays into positrons and neon 22 via beta positive decay method heating the plasma to above 16 million kelvin upon reacting with electrons. The device is shaped as a tokomak the hydrogen plasma being contained in a magnetic field that is greater than 10,000 Teslas in magnitude allowing the Carbon Fusion events to happen within the torus shaped reaction chamber at 16 million kelvins or higher temperature.