Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a line protection method and a related apparatus for a flexible grounding system of a power distribution network. The method comprises outputting a first compensation voltage by a voltage source of a flexible grounding device of each line of a target power distribution network in the case where a ground fault occurs in the target power distribution network; starting to calculate the zero-sequence impedance of each line in real time by the zero-sequence impedance protection device; after the first compensation voltage is output for a first output duration, outputting a second compensation voltage; calculating the zero-sequence impedance of each line in real time by the line zero-sequence impedance protection device; determining a fault line by the zero-sequence impedance protection device, and cutting off the fault line to isolate the ground fault after a trip for a preset time delay.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds for modulating calcitonin receptor and/or amylin receptor activity, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds disclosed herein. Also provided are methods for treating a calcitonin receptor and/or amylin receptor associated disease or disorder.

Abstract: Disclosed is a folding seat which comprises a chair pocket, a first supporting assembly, and a second supporting assembly, the chair pocket is sheathed on the first supporting assembly and the second supporting assembly. The first supporting assembly comprises a supporting rod and a supporting base, the supporting rod is hinged in the supporting base and rotates in a preset range. The second supporting assembly and the first supporting assembly have the same structure and arranged opposite to each other detachably. By arranging the first supporting assembly and the second supporting assembly detachably to support the chair pocket, the folding seat can be fixed. By dissembling the first supporting assembly and the second supporting assembly, then rotating and adjusting the supporting rods in the first supporting assembly and the second supporting assembly, the folding seat can be folded and stored.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds for modulating calcitonin receptor and/or amylin receptor activity, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds disclosed herein. Also provided are methods for treating a calcitonin receptor and/or amylin receptor associated disease or disorder.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a microfluidic chip and a microfluidic device including the microfluidic chip. The microfluidic chip includes at least two units stacked in a first direction perpendicular to the microfluidic chip, each unit of the at least two units includes a generation part configured to generate a target fluid.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a buoyant device including a body composed of a material with a specific gravity less than 0.3. The body is composed of a portion between a first distance and a second distance from an axis. The body includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. Differences of the first portion and distance differences of the second portion are less than a distance difference of the third portion. The first portion includes a first difference group and a second difference group composed of a plurality of distance differences, and distance differences of the first difference group are greater than distance differences of the second difference group. The second portion is located away from the axis relative to the first portion.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to video coding/decoding and particularly for signaling in temporal resampling and restoration in video coding and/or decoding systems. One method includes receiving the coded video bitstream; extracting, from the coded video bitstream, a syntax indicating a temporal restoration mode, wherein the syntax comprises: a flag and an index, the flag indicating whether temporal restoration is enabled, the index indicating one temporal resampling ratio out of 2{circumflex over (?)}N non-unity temporal resampling ratios, wherein the index has N bits, or an index only, the index indicating whether the temporal restoration is enabled and one temporal resampling ratio of at least one temporal resampling ratios; and when the temporal restoration is enabled, restoring, by the device, reconstructed frames to obtain restored frames based on the indicated temporal resampling ratio.

Abstract: A microwell array chip, a use method therefor, and a detection apparatus. The microwell array chip includes a microwell array substrate, and the microwell array substrate includes n reaction chambers, and an idle region; an array of the n reaction chambers is disposed in the microwell array substrate, and the idle region is disposed around the n reaction chambers; each reaction chamber is configured to accommodate a sample to be tested, and the shape of an orthographic projection of the reaction chamber on a first reference plane where the first main surface is located is of a regular N-gon; the area of the idle region is divided into n? virtual units, and the shape of the orthographic projection of each virtual unit on the first reference plane is the same as the shape of the orthographic projection of the reaction chamber on the first reference plane.

Abstract: A voltage regulation circuit mainly includes an oscillator and a regulation circuit. The oscillator is connected to a power supply circuit configured to supply power to a logic circuit, and a process corner type of the oscillator is the same as a process corner type of the logic circuit. The oscillator may generate a first clock signal based on an output voltage of the power supply circuit. The regulation circuit may control, based on the first clock signal, the power supply circuit to regulate the output voltage. For a logic circuit of an SS corner type, the output voltage of the power supply circuit may be increased, and for a logic circuit of an FF corner type, the output voltage of the power supply circuit may be decreased.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to video coding/decoding and particularly for evaluating codec performance. One method includes obtaining a first plurality of anchor data points; obtaining a second plurality of test data points; analyzing monotonicity conditions of the first plurality of anchor data points and the second plurality of test data points; determining a fitting algorithm based on the analyzed monotonicity conditions; fitting the first plurality of anchor data points with the fitting algorithm to obtain an anchor curve; fitting the second plurality of test data points with the fitting algorithm to obtain a test curve; and evaluating the test codec performance based on the anchor curve and the test curve, to obtain an evaluation result.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium evaluating codec performance. One method includes obtaining m anchor data points each generated based on a respective anchor encoded video bitstream; obtaining n test data points each generated based on a respective encoded test video bitstream, n being an integer; fitting the m anchor data points with an anchor curve, the anchor curve being based on an anchor polynomial, wherein the anchor polynomial is monotonic in an x-axis range; fitting the n test data points with a test curve, the anchor curve being based on a test polynomial, wherein the test polynomial is monotonic in the x-axis range; and evaluating the test codec performance based on the anchor curve and the test curve, to obtain an evaluation result.

Abstract: Example aspects include techniques for implementing a high-frequency attention network for single image super-resolution. These techniques may include extracting a plurality of features from an original image input into a CNN to generate a feature map, and restoring one or more high-frequency details of the original image via an efficient residual block (ERB) and a high-frequency attention block (HFAB) configured to assign a scaling factor to one or more high-frequency areas. In addition, the techniques may include generating reconstruction input information by performing an element-wise operation on the one or more high-frequency details and cross-connection information from the feature map and performing, by the CNN, an enhancement operation on the reconstruction input information to generate an enhanced image.

Abstract: Described are examples for detecting objects in an image on a device including setting, based on a condition, a number of sparse proposals to use in performing object detection in the image, performing object detection in the image based on providing the sparse proposals as input to an object detection process to infer object location and classification of one or more objects in the image, and indicating, to an application and based on an output of the object detection process, the object location and classification of the one or more objects.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, device, storage medium and program product for music screening. The method includes: obtaining at least one image and at least one piece of to-be-selected music; determining an analysis result of the at least one image corresponding to an image classification tag based on N predetermined image classification tags, N being an integer greater than or equal to 1; determining attribute information for each piece of to-be-selected music based on the at least one image and the at least one piece of to-be-selected music; determining target music that matches the at least one image among the at least one piece of to-be-selected music based on the analysis result and the attribute information of each piece of to-be-selected music.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and a device for processing a portrait image, the method includes: acquiring a to-be-processed portrait image; inputting the to-be-processed portrait image into an image processing model, and acquiring a head smear image output by the image processing model, where the image processing model is configured to smear a hair area of a portrait located above a preset boundary in the portrait image, and the image processing model is generated by training a sample data set of a sample portrait image and a sample head smear image corresponding to the sample portrait image; rendering the head smear image with a head effect material to obtain a portrait image added with an effect; and displaying the portrait image added with the effect.

Abstract: Example aspects include techniques for implementing a high-frequency attention network for single image super-resolution. These techniques may include extracting a plurality of features from an original image input into a CNN to generate a feature map, and restoring one or more high-frequency details of the original image via an efficient residual block (ERB) and a high-frequency attention block (HFAB) configured to assign a scaling factor to one or more high-frequency areas. In addition, the techniques may include generating reconstruction input information by performing an element-wise operation on the one or more high-frequency details and cross-connection information from the feature map and performing, by the CNN, an enhancement operation on the reconstruction input information to generate an enhanced image.

Abstract: Described are examples for detecting objects in an image on a device including setting, based on a condition, a number of sparse proposals to use in performing object detection in the image, performing object detection in the image based on providing the sparse proposals as input to an object detection process to infer object location and classification of one or more objects in the image, and indicating, to an application and based on an output of the object detection process, the object location and classification of the one or more objects.

Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to inpainting video. More specifically, initial video data including a sequence of image frames containing missing or corrupted pixel information may be received. Optical flow displacement values and optical flow validity masks may be generated for neighboring image frames of initial video data. Image features from image feature maps of one or more neighboring image frames may be warp-shifted to image feature maps of a current image frame using the optical flow displacement values and warp-shifted image features from the feature maps of the one or more neighboring image frames may be selected based on one or more of the optical flow validity masks. A sequence of complete image frames may be generated based on the selected warp-shifted image features from the feature maps of the one or more neighboring image frames and image features from the image feature maps of the current image frame.

Abstract: Systems and method directed to performing video object segmentation are provided. In examples, video data representing a sequence of image frames and video data representing an object mask may be received at a video object segmentation server. Image features may be generated based on a first image frame of the sequence of image frames, image features may be generated based on a second image frame of the sequence of image frames; and object features may be generated based on the object mask. A transform matrix may be computed based on the image features of the first image frame and image features of the second image frame; the transform matrix may be applied to the object features resulting in transformed object features. A predicted object mask associated with the second image frame may be obtained by decoding the transformed object features.

Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to inpainting video. More specifically, initial video data including a sequence of image frames containing missing or corrupted pixel information may be received. Optical flow displacement values and optical flow validity masks may be generated for neighboring image frames of initial video data. Image features from image feature maps of one or more neighboring image frames may be warp-shifted to image feature maps of a current image frame using the optical flow displacement values and warp-shifted image features from the feature maps of the one or more neighboring image frames may be selected based on one or more of the optical flow validity masks. A sequence of complete image frames may be generated based on the selected warp-shifted image features from the feature maps of the one or more neighboring image frames and image features from the image feature maps of the current image frame.