Abstract: A meal suggestion device includes at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire target person related data related to a target person to whom a meal is to be suggested; determine a suggested meal to be suggested to the target person using the target person related data; generate basis information indicating a basis for suggesting the suggested meal; and present the suggested meal and the basis information.

Abstract: A computing device includes a spiking neural network that includes an accumulation phase that adds currents and a decoding phase that converts a voltage resulting from the addition to a voltage pulse timing, the spiking neural network comprising a current adding portion wherein the current that flows into or out of an own neuron in the accumulation phase depends on the membrane potential of that neuron.

Abstract: In order to estimate a weight of a transfer object in a wider variety of transfer embodiments, a transfer system (1) includes: an acquisition unit (11) for acquiring sensor information that changes in accordance with a distance between a transfer object and a transfer vehicle that is transferring the transfer object; and an estimation unit (12) for estimating the weight of the transfer object on the basis of time-series data of the sensor information.

Abstract: A delta-sigma modulation apparatus performs delta-sigma modulation on a first signal as an input signal and outputs a second signal; learns a parameter for a transmission path distortion model using the second signal and a third signal generated through a transmission path of the second signal; inputs the second signal to the transmission path distortion model and outputs a fourth signal that is an approximated value of a signal which is generated through at least part of the transmission path of the second signal, and performs the delta-sigma modulation on the first signal using the fourth signal and outputs the second signal.

Abstract: Provided are a virtual space provision device and the like capable of more accurately estimating the line of sight of a user who uses an avatar to use a virtual space. A virtual space provision device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is provided with: a detection unit that detects the orientation of an avatar in a virtual space, the orientation of the avatar changing in response to a user's operation; an output control unit that performs control to output, to the user, an output image which corresponds to the orientation of the avatar in the virtual space, and in which the display mode of the outside of a prescribed region has been changed; and an estimation unit that estimates the line of sight of the user on the basis of the prescribed region in the output image.

Abstract: To provide a technique capable of shaping a placed target object into a desired shape with use of a work machine, a contact determination method includes: acquiring information pertaining to a position of at least one movable part among one or more movable parts provided in the work machine; and carrying out determination of contact between the work machine and the target object on the basis of a result of a comparison between an amount of change in the position of the at least one movable part specified in accordance with the information pertaining to the position and a threshold value indicating an amount of change that serves as a criterion on which to determine contact between the work machine and the target object.

Abstract: An object of present disclosure is to provide a submarine branching unit, a control method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium capable of implementing path switching of optical cables by using a smaller number of optical switches. A submarine branching unit according to the present disclosure includes: first to third optical switches each including first to fourth terminals; and a control unit configured to control a connection of each of the first to third optical switches to a vertical connection or a horizontal connection based on a specified connection state, in which: the first terminal of the first optical switch is connected to an input of a first line of a first path; the second terminal of the first optical switch is connected to the first terminal of the third optical switch.

Abstract: An improved near-infrared spectroscopy based handheld tissue oxygenation scanner and method in which the handheld tissue oxygenation scanner is a small device-like an optical mouse-employing a single transmitter-receiver pair, an optical switch, and a plurality of optical fibers that transmit light into tissue under examination and receive light after interacting with that tissue. The integration of a plurality of optical fibers wherein each individual one provides emission/reception of infrared radiation advantageously provides a higher density of tissue interrogation by the infrared radiation thereby providing faster operation and more information in a given time period. Additional features and advantages of our inventive system and method include computer control and the ability to connect to a variety of computing devices via BlueTooth and other communications techniques.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a storing means, an acquiring means, a determining means, and a notifying means. The storing means stores biometric information and reservation information for each of a plurality of reservation holders of hotel stay. The acquiring means acquires biometric information of a visitor who has visited a hotel. The determining means identifies the visitor from among the plurality of reservation holders of hotel stay by performing a matching processing using the acquired biometric information and the stored biometric information, and determines whether or not the identified visitor is allowed to check in based on the reservation information of the identified visitor. When it is determined that the identified visitor is allowed to check in, the notifying means sets the identified visitor as a hotel guest and notifies a terminal possessed by the hotel guest of a guest room number assigned to the hotel guest.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and structures that employ distributed fiber sensing that utilizes existing fiber cables for detecting tree events. Our inventive systems and methods can detect when a tree or other types of vibration occur on the telecom cable or poles, creating a high-resolution spatial profile of the cable. Systems and methods according to aspects of the present disclosure distinguish between tree events and other vibrations, such as hammer strikes on a utility pole, by employing Information Noise Contrastive Estimation (InfoNCE) and contrastive learning. Our inventive approach accurately differentiates between different types of vibrations and identifies patterns specific to tree events.

Abstract: One of the purposes of the present invention is to provide an information processing device which is capable of performing appropriate entry/exit management with respect to an arbitrary region in a virtual space. An information processing device according to one embodiment of this disclosure comprises: a reception means for receiving input of setting information indicating a region of a virtual space; a region control means for setting, as a specific region, the region of the virtual space indicated in the setting information; an authentication means for performing biometric authentication of a user that operates an avatar, if the avatar is to enter the specific region; and a determination means for determining whether to permit entry of the avatar into the specific region, according to results of the biometric authentication.

Abstract: A gameplay learning apparatus includes: an acquiring means that acquires play data including a first play state in a game and an action taken by a player in the first play state, and a label indicating whether or not to be a learning target; a learning means that generates a game player model for outputting an action of the learning target in response to input of a second play state based on the play data and the label; and an output means that outputs the game player model.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and structures that enhance advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) event classification with graph neural networks (GNNs) in which AMI data is represented as a graph, where each meter is a node and connections between nodes represent the physical or functional relationship between meters. As a result, our systems and methods capture dependency information between different meters and use this information to predict events and anomalies.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods directed to transfer learning of cascaded EDFA models error accumulations in a multi-span system in which a two-step method using transfer learning is employed to reduce EDFA model error accumulation in a multi-span system. A first step of employs existing pretrained component-level ML-based EDFA models in chain to create a large synthetic dataset. The synthetic dataset includes all related features and labels for a specific end-to-end link. A source model is trained based on the large synthetic dataset. To accommodate a performance prediction gap between real link condition and the source model, which is trained on synthetic dataset, our method employs a second step that collects a few measurements from the real end-to-end link and makes few-shots learning to transfer the synthesis-data-based source model to real-data-based target model.

Abstract: In one aspect, a model training apparatus includes at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: calculate, for objects in a dataset used in the past to train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model, the number of Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) blocks in the CNN model required to detect the object, estimate a parameter value of the number of FPN blocks in the CNN model based on the calculated number of FPN blocks for the objects; and train the CNN model by using the estimated parameter value.

Abstract: To determine the environment of a radio channel even in a case where the distance between wireless communication apparatuses varies, an information processing system (1) includes: obtaining means (11) for obtaining distance information that indicates a distance between a first wireless communication apparatus and a second wireless communication apparatus that directly perform communication with each other through a radio channel, and quality information that is information associated with quality of the communication; decision means (12) for deciding an algorithm for determining the environment of the radio channel with reference to the distance information; and determination means (13) for determining the environment of the radio channel by using the quality information and the algorithm decided by the decision means (12).

Abstract: A state-of-polarization monitoring apparatus performs: determining a first state-of-polarization (SOP) vector that represents an SOP of an optical reception signal in a the first partial period for each first partial period and a second SOP vector that represents an SOP of the optical reception signal in the second partial period for each second partial period; computing a rotation angle of the first SOP vector for each pair of first SOP vectors and a rotation angle of the second SOP vector for each pair of second SOP vectors; determining whether a length of the first partial period or a length of an interval between the first partial periods is appropriate based on the rotation angles of the first and second SOP vectors.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes at least one communication apparatus (30) and an information processing apparatus (20). The communication apparatus (30) communicates with an IC tag (42) attached to each of a plurality of objects (40). The information processing apparatus (20) processes first information read from the IC tag (42) by the communication apparatus (30). A person is allowed to bring the object (40) into a confirmation region where the object (40) can be confirmed. Moreover, a communicable region of the communication apparatus (30) overlaps at least a portion of the confirmation region. Then, the information processing apparatus (20) processes the first information, thereby generates bring-in information indicating that the object (40) has been brought into the confirmation region, and causes the bring-in information to be stored in a storage unit.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and structures that provide superior DFOS rain intensity measurements and introduce a universal solution for rain intensity detection based on the data collected by distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology and a designed domain generalization method. As a result, systems and methods according to the present disclosure distinguish the rain intensity of a large area through which the fiber optic cables traverse and address the domain shift issue, by employing a domain generalization technique based on machine learning technology in which newly collected target domain inference data may be distributed differently from the previously captured training source domain data. To generalize the trained model to different target domains, source domain distributions are enriched by disturbing the distribution in the frequency domain.

Abstract: A control apparatus (103) includes a detection unit (104), and a control unit (105). The detection unit (104) detects a predetermined first gesture by processing image information. When an input condition being a condition for allowing control of a device (102) using the first gesture is satisfied, the control unit (105) controls the device (102) according to the first gesture.