Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for detecting an obstacle. The method may include: acquiring first point cloud data collected by a first vehicle-mounted laser radar and second point cloud data collected by a second vehicle-mounted laser radar, where a height of the first vehicle-mounted laser radar from a ground is greater than a height of the second vehicle-mounted laser radar from the ground, and a number of wiring harnesses of the first vehicle-mounted laser radar is greater than a number of wiring harnesses of the second vehicle-mounted laser radar; performing ground estimation based on the first point cloud data; filtering out a ground point in the second point cloud data according to the ground estimation result of the first point cloud data; and performing obstacle detection based on the second point cloud data after the ground point is filtered out.

Abstract: A method, including: acquiring a point cloud frame including point cloud data of a pedestrian; projecting the point cloud data of the pedestrian to a ground coordinate system to obtain projection point data of the pedestrian; determining a direction of a connection line between the two shoulders of the pedestrian, based on a location distribution of the projection point data; extracting a point cloud of a stable region from the point cloud data of the pedestrian based on the direction of the connection line between the two shoulders of the pedestrian, a form change range of the stable region when the pedestrian moves being smaller than form change ranges of other regions of the pedestrian; and determining movement information of the pedestrian based on a coordinate of a center point of the point cloud of the stable region in a plurality of consecutive point cloud frames.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle is disclosed. The method may include: determining center points of at least two frames of point clouds collected for an identified obstacle during travelling of the vehicle; performing curve fitting based on the determined center points to obtain a fitted curve; determining a moving velocity of the obstacle based on the fitted curve; predicting whether the vehicle is to be collided with the obstacle when the vehicle continues travelling at a current velocity, based on the moving velocity of the obstacle, the traveling velocity of the vehicle, and a distance between the obstacle and the vehicle; and sending control information to the vehicle, in response to predicting that the vehicle is to be collided with the obstacle when the vehicle continues travelling at the current velocity, the control information being used to control the vehicle to avoid collision with the obstacle.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for outputting information. The method may include: acquiring point cloud data and image data collected by a vehicle during a driving process; determining a plurality of time thresholds based on a preset time threshold value range; executing following processing for each time threshold: identifying obstacles included in each point cloud frame and each image frame respectively; determining a similarity between the obstacles; determining, in response to the similarity being greater than a preset similarity threshold, whether a time interval between the point cloud frame and the image frame corresponding to two similar obstacles is less than the time threshold; and processing recognized obstacles based on a determining result, to determine the number of obstacles; and determining, based on a plurality of numbers, and outputting a target time threshold.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for calibrating a camera are provided. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring an image-point cloud sequence, the image-point cloud sequence including at least one group of an initial image and point cloud data collected at a same time, the initial image being collected by a camera provided on an autonomous vehicle and the point cloud data being collected by a radar provided on the autonomous vehicle; determining target point cloud data of initial images corresponding to groups of image-point cloud in the image-point cloud sequence; and matching the target point cloud data with the corresponding initial images in the image-point cloud sequence to determine a correction parameter of the camera.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for detecting ground point cloud points. The method may include: determining a segmentation plane and a ground based on a point cloud collected by a lidar; segmenting the point cloud into a first sub point cloud and a second sub point cloud based on the segmentation plane; and determining the point cloud points whose distances from the ground are smaller than a first distance threshold in the first sub point cloud as ground point cloud points, and determining the point cloud points whose distances from the ground are smaller than a second distance threshold in the second sub point cloud as the ground point cloud points, where the first distance threshold is smaller than the second distance threshold.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for outputting information and calibrating a camera. The method may include: acquiring a first image, a second image, and a third image, the first image being an image photographed by a to-be-calibrated camera, the second image being a high-precision map image including a target area indicated by the first image, and the third image being a reflectance image including the target area; fusing the second image and the third image to obtain a fused image; determining a matching point pair based on points selected by a user in the first image and the fused image; and calibrating the to-be-calibrated camera based on coordinates of the matching point pair.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medicine for treating disorders of glucose and/or lipid metabolism. This invention demonstrates a new therapeutic target for treatment of glucose and/or lipid metabolic disorders. The invention further provides a method of treating glucose and/or lipid metabolic disorders, administering to a subject comprising a Nogo-B inhibitor, thereby treating the glucose and/or lipid metabolic disorders.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing information are provided. A specific embodiment of the method includes: identifying at least one obstacle from a point cloud collected by a lidar during a traveling process of a vehicle; for an obstacle in the at least one obstacle, determining an appearance rate of the obstacle within a life cycle corresponding to the obstacle; determining a confidence degree of a grid region of at least one grid region based on appearance rates of obstacles in the at least one obstacle; determining a target grid region from the at least one grid region based on the confidence degree, and determining whether an obstacle detected in the target grid region is an obstacle detected for a first time; and if yes, filtering out a point cloud corresponding to the obstacle detected in the target grid region for the first time.

Abstract: The embodiments provide a method for unmanned vehicle cruising, an unmanned vehicle and a storage medium, the method includes: in a state that a slow cruising function is started, cruising according to a preset cruising mode, and collecting running data through a sensing device, where the running data is data of an environment in which a vehicle locates, collected by the vehicle during a running process; and generating a map based on the collected running data. The embodiments of the present disclosure solve the problem that an unmanned vehicle in the prior art cannot update a map in time and, in particular, cannot develop a more suitable map according to different surrounding environments.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a replication-limited mucosal immune vaccine for influenza virus. The present invention first protects a mutant protein, which is obtained by mutating two amino acid residues of NS1 protein of influenza virus as follows: the amino acid residue at position 38 is mutated from arginine to alanine, and the amino acid residue at position 41 is mutated from lysine to alanine. The present invention also protects a recombinant virus, which is obtained by mutating the codons encoding two amino acid residues of NS1 protein in the influenza virus genome as follows: the codon for the amino acid residue at position 38 from the N-terminus is mutated from the arginine codon to an alanine codon, and the codon for the amino acid residue at position 41 from the N-terminus is mutated from the lysine codon to an alanine codon. The present invention also protects use of any one of the above-mentioned recombinant viruses for preparing a vaccine for influenza virus.

Abstract: A method for computing physical properties of materials, such as two-phase and three-phase relative permeabilities through a porous material, is described. The method employs single or multi-scale digital images of a representative sample which capture one or multiple fractionations of a micro-structure size cascade at the respective, required imaging resolutions. At a high resolution, the method computes basic physical properties, such as absolute permeabilities with a numerical method such as computational fluid dynamics solving the Navier-Stokes equation, and capillary pressure with simulations solving Young-Laplace equation. Saturation states of multiple fluids are combined to derive capillary pressure relationships at low resolutions when necessary.

Abstract: The invention relates to a node for communication between a first network and an second network and coupled to a controller in the second network via a first communication route. The node and controller form a virtualised home gateway platform. The node is arranged to access a second communication route and also to couple to the controller via the second communication route upon connection failure of the first communication route. This reconnects the node to the controller thereby maintaining a route for transmission of data streams and downloads into the home environment but also re-establishes control signalling within the virtualised home gateway platform and therefore also within the home network. A system for performing gateway functions between a first network and an second network, and a method of maintaining connection between a node and a controller, are also described.

Abstract: Provided are a method and system for allocating wavelength channels in a Passive Optical Network (PON), and an Optical Line Terminal (OLT). In the method, an OLT may acquire pre-set wavelength channel priority information and Optical Network Unit (ONU) priority information; and the wavelength channel priority information and the ONU priority information may be sent to each ONU to enable each ONU to selectively access a corresponding wavelength channel according to the wavelength channel priority information and the ONU priority information based on a pre-set rule.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided according to the embodiments of the disclosure. The method includes: sending, in response to determining that a pedestrian is in a first target area, behavior prompt information representing prompting the pedestrian to make a corresponding behavior; determining whether a deceleration condition matching the behavior prompt information is satisfied based on acquired behavior information of the pedestrian; and sending control information for reducing a moving speed of the autonomous vehicle, in response to determining that the deceleration condition is satisfied and determining that a speed of the autonomous vehicle is greater than a preset deceleration threshold. According to the embodiments, deceleration control of the autonomous vehicle is achieved based on the response of the pedestrian to the behavior prompt information.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle control method, including: acquiring current driving information of a vehicle; determining, according to the current driving information and a preset risk map, whether the vehicle drives to a risky road segment; and controlling a driving state of the vehicle accordingly when it is determined that the vehicle drives to the risky road segment. By presetting a risk map, defining road and roadside risky areas in the map, defining risky road segments of roads according to the road and roadside risky areas, determining in real time, whether the vehicle drives to a risky road segment, and controlling a driving state of the vehicle when it is determined that the vehicle drives to the risky road segment, so as to avoid risks that the risky areas cause to the driving of the vehicle, the driving safety of the vehicle can be effectively improved.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for controlling on-demand service provisioning in a network, wherein the network comprises resources for providing a service. In the method, a service request is intercepted. At least one network function, indicated as a first network function, required for the service associated with the service request is determined. Then, the first network function is instantiated on a resource in the network for executing the service in the network.

Abstract: A method for computing physical properties of materials, such as two-phase and three-phase relative permeabilities through a porous material, is described. The method employs single or multi-scale digital images of a representative sample which capture one or multiple fractionations of a micro-structure size cascade at the respective, required imaging resolutions. At a high resolution, the method computes basic physical properties, such as absolute permeabilities with a numerical method such as computational fluid dynamics solving the Navier-Stokes equation, and capillary pressure with simulations solving Young-Laplace equation. Saturation states of multiple fluids are combined to derive capillary pressure relationships at low resolutions when necessary.

Abstract: A method for computing the release rate of a controlled release drug and medical device using a combination of imaging data and computational physics is described. The method employs a three-dimensional digital representation of a drug sample, derived from two-dimensional or three-dimensional imaging, which captures the drug active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), excipients, and porosity with distinctive contrasts. Direct numerical simulations are conducted on the three-dimensional digital representation to derive effective transport properties of the API going through a porous matrix or membrane. Drug release rate can be predicted more efficiently than laboratory-based methods. When there is strong heterogeneity presented in the drug, a further method is described that engages imaging and release simulations at multiple scales. Computerized systems and programs for performing the methods are also described.

Abstract: According to some embodiments of the invention, an electro-optic device includes a first plurality of electrodes, a second plurality of electrodes spaced apart from the first plurality of electrodes, and an active layer between the first plurality of electrodes and the second plurality of electrodes. The active layer comprises a plurality of electromagnetic resonators. At least one of the first plurality of electrodes and the second plurality of electrodes is at least partially transparent to light of a spectral range that can be absorbed or emitted by the plurality of electromagnetic resonators. The first and second plurality of electrodes are electrically connected to the plurality of electromagnetic resonators. The spacings between at least a selected pair of the plurality of electromagnetic resonators is provided such that a real component of a coupling coefficient between the selected pair of the plurality of electromagnetic resonators is substantially canceled.