Abstract: Techniques for video processing, including video coding, video decoding and video transcoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video picture that includes one or more tiles and one or more rectangular slices and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that, for iteratively determining information about the one or more rectangular slices, a variable indicating a tile index is updated only for slices having indices that are smaller than a value equal to a number of slices in the video picture minus 1.

Abstract: A composite biochar for controlling heavy metal pollution and a process for producing the same, in particular enrichment of heavy metals such as arsenic and lead in soil with centipede grass, thereafter centipede grass is sintered with hydroxyapatite, sepiolite and chitosan, and compounded with microorganisms to produce said composite biochar; through the process of the present invention, heavy metals such as arsenic and lead are stably enriched or coated in said composite biochar, significantly reducing the potential hazard of arsenic and lead to the environment, and also providing new developmental ideas for treating heavy metal biomass.

Abstract: A display substrate and a manufacturing method and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a base substrate, a first insulation layer, a first electrode pattern, a connecting electrode pattern, a second electrode, a light-emitting functional layer, and a first filling layer. The second electrode is connected with the connecting electrode pattern, the second electrode and the first electrode pattern are spaced apart from each other. The light-emitting functional layer is located between the first electrode pattern and the second electrode. The first filling layer is located between the connecting electrode pattern and the first electrode pattern. The first filling layer and the light-emitting functional layer are different layers; a portion of the first insulation layer that is located between the first electrode pattern and the connecting electrode pattern has a groove, and the first filling layer is at least partially located in the groove.

Abstract: A multi-camera video conference call system is provided with a plurality of cameras connected together over a communication network to generate a corresponding plurality of input frame images taken from different perspectives of a video conference room, where the multi-camera video conference call system detects one or more human heads for any meeting participants captured in the input frame images, generates a head bounding box which surrounds each detected human head, extracts a body bounding box which surrounds the detected human head and at least an upper body portion of a meeting participant belonging to the detected human head, generates a participant identification feature embedding from each body bounding box, and performs person re-identification processing on all generated participant identification feature embeddings to determine a count of the meeting participants in the video conference room.

Abstract: A videoconference system acquires images during a videoconference. A still image may be analyzed to identify persons participating in the videoconference. A first frame is generated for each person and represents a subsection of an image that focuses on the face of that person. These first frames may include unpleasant components. Background segmentation is performed on each first frame to remove or diminish such unpleasant components. For example, a second frame for a person may be generated by identifying the background segments in the first frame and blurring or replacing such background segments with a virtual background. When the second frames are put together, the differences in the first frames are obscured making it more pleasing to view. A composite stream of the second frames is generated, per layout rules, and sent to the far side for improved viewing of the participants at the far side.

Abstract: A multi-party privacy computing method and device based on semi-trusted hardware, wherein the method applied to semi-trusted hardware comprises the following steps: acquiring random number masks and random seeds of all user terminals; generating a garbled circuit seed according to the random seeds; generating a garbled circuit according to a predetermined circuit description and the garbled circuit seed, wherein the garbled circuit comprises garbled tables, wire labels and decoding information; sending the wire labels corresponding to the inputs of all user terminals to a user terminal corresponding to the semi-trusted hardware by using an oblivious transfer protocol; and sending the garbled table and the decoding information to the user terminal corresponding to the semi-trusted hardware, so that the user terminal can compute an output value according to the garbled tables, the decoding information and the wire label corresponding to the inputs of all user terminals.

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses for video processing are described. A method for processing video includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule, and wherein the format rule specifies to include, in a general constraint syntax structure associated with the video, one or more general constraint flags indicating whether corresponding syntax elements are included in a sequence parameter set (SPS) and/or a picture parameter set (PPS) and/or a picture header (PH) and/or a slice header (SH) or to constrain values of the syntax elements in the SPS and/or the PPS and/or the PH and/or the SH.

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus for video processing are described. The processing may include encoding, decoding or transcoding. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more pictures and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies to include, in a general constrain syntax structure, a syntax element indicating whether each picture includes only one slice, and whether a picture header syntax structure is present in a slice header.

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus for video processing are described. A method for processing video includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule, and wherein the format rule specifies whether a syntax element in a sequence parameter set (SPS) based on a value of a general constraint flag.

Abstract: A video processing method is described. The method includes performing a conversion between a video region of a video and a coded representation of the video. The performing of the conversion includes configuring, based on a partition type of the video region, a context model for coding a first bin. The first bin and a second bin are included in a bin string corresponding to an index of a secondary transform tool. The index indicates an applicability of the secondary transform tool and/or a kernel information of the secondary transform tool. The secondary transform tool includes applying, during encoding, a forward secondary transform to an output of a forward primary transform applied to a residual of a video block prior to quantization, or applying, during decoding, an inverse secondary transform to an output of dequantization to the video block before applying an inverse primary transform.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent structure and a display device. The organic electroluminescent structure includes a base substrate; a passivation protective layer provided at a side of the base substrate, in which the passivation protective layer is provided with a plurality of inner cutting portions arranged at intervals at a side facing away from the base substrate, each of the inner cutting portions has a first surface towards the base substrate and a second surface away from the base substrate, an orthographic projection of the first surface on the base substrate is within an orthographic projection of the second surface on the base substrate, and a groove is provided between two adjacent inner cutting portions and is formed as an inner cutting structure; an anode layer including a plurality of anodes arranged at intervals; an organic light-emitting functional layer having a hole injection layer.

Abstract: A method includes performing a conversion between a video including a video picture including one or more tiles and a bitstream of the video. The video picture refers to a picture parameter set, and the picture parameter set conforms to a format rule specifying that the picture parameter set includes a list of column widths for N tile columns, where N is an integer. An (N?1)-th tile column exists in the video picture and the (N?1)-th tile column has a width that is equal to an (N?1)-th entry in a list of explicitly included tile column widths plus one number of coding tree blocks.

Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes methods for transform design, are described. In a representative aspect, a method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream of the video based on a rule, wherein the rule specifies that a selection of a transform matrix set for performing a transform operation during the conversion is based on a low-frequency non-separable transform index indicated in the bitstream, wherein the rule specifies that the transform operation includes, during an encoding operation, coding the current video block into the bitstream by applying a forward transform on residual values of the current video block, or wherein the rule specifies that the transform operation includes, during a decoding operation, generating from the bitstream the current video block by applying an inverse transform to scaled coefficients indicated in the bitstream.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method are provided. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate having a bit line extending along a first direction; a semiconductor channel located on the bit line; a semiconductor doping layer located on the side of the bit line, wherein the top surface of the semiconductor doping layer is connected to the semiconductor channel contact; a word line extending in the second direction, encircling part of the semiconductor channel, and the bottom surface of the word line is higher than the top surface of the bit line; a word line dielectric layer located between the word line and the semiconductor channel; an isolation layer located between the word line and the bit line and between the word line and the semiconductor doping layer. The device and method improve the prior weak electrical conductivity between the bit line structure and the active structure.

Abstract: A method and a device for remote acquisition of correlated pseudo-random numbers based on semi-trusted hardware. When applied to semi-trusted hardware, the method comprises: acquiring a random seed of a sender and a selected number of a receiver; generating a plurality of first correlated pseudo-random numbers and first commitment seeds according to the random seed and a predetermined category of the correlated pseudo-random number; generating a first commitment value and a first open value by a commitment mechanism according to the first correlated pseudo-random numbers and the first commitment seeds; generating a Merkle proof according to the first commitment value and the selected number; sending the first correlated pseudo-random numbers, the first commitment value, the first open value and the Merkle proof corresponding to the selected number to the receiver.

Abstract: A method and a device for remote acquisition of correlated pseudo-random numbers based on semi-trusted hardware. When applied to semi-trusted hardware, the method comprises: acquiring a random seed of a sender and a selected number of a receiver; generating a plurality of first correlated pseudo-random numbers and first commitment seeds according to the random seed and a predetermined category of the correlated pseudo-random number; generating a first commitment value and a first open value by a commitment mechanism according to the first correlated pseudo-random numbers and the first commitment seeds; generating a Merkle proof according to the first commitment value and the selected number; sending the first correlated pseudo-random numbers, the first commitment value, the first open value and the Merkle proof corresponding to the selected number to the receiver.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems for video processing, including video encoding or video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video comprising a video picture that includes a video slice and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule specifying that, in case a slice type of the video slice is type P and temporal motion vector prediction is enabled, usage of reference picture resampling (RPR) for a reference picture in a collocated reference picture list is disabled. The reference picture is indicated by a reference index of a collocated picture of the video slice used for the temporal motion vector prediction.

Abstract: A method for determining a productivity of a coalbed methane well without shutting down the well includes steps of: obtaining coalbed methane basic data; based on PVT experimental data, determining a relationship table between a pressure and a coalbed methane deviation factor, and a relationship table between the pressure and a pseudo-pressure; recording daily gas production rates, bottomhole flow pressures, and cumulative gas productions at each stabilized flow pressure test moment in at least three different production stages; determining formation pressures corresponding to each stabilized flow pressure test moment based on a material balance equation; according to the formation pressures, the bottomhole flow pressures and the production rates, determining coefficients in a deliverability equation of the coalbed methane well for determining the deliverability equation; substituting the formation pressures and the bottomhole flow pressures into the deliverability equation for obtaining corresponding product

Abstract: A system for updating/magnifying regions within one or more data frames containing a region of interest while regions outside the region of interest are not updated or are updated less frequently. Edge devices are thereby able to surgically apply super-resolution algorithms to relevant regions of image frames, thereby leveraging their overall effectiveness.

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus for video processing are described. A method for processing video includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule, and wherein the format rule specifies whether a syntax element in a sequence parameter set (SPS) based on a value of a general constraint flag.