Abstract: Disclosed is a fast chilling method for improving beef tenderness, including the following steps: step 1, sample pretreatment: taking beef longissimus dorsi muscle after slaughter, removing surface fat and connective tissue, and vacuum packaging; step 2, rapid chilling: rapidly transferring the pre-treated sample completed in step 1 to a chilling equipment for chilling to a sample temperature of ?3 degrees Celsius (° C.), where the chilling is completed within 5 hours (h) after slaughter; step 3, chilling and aging at super-chilled temperature: transferring the samples rapidly chilled in step 2 to a chilled warehouse, and continuing to chilling and aging until 24 h after slaughter; and step 4, chilling storage and aging: cutting the sample equally into 2.5 centimeters (cm) thickness 24 h after slaughter, and then completing a vacuum skin packaging and refrigerating for aging.

Abstract: Generally this disclosure describes a video communication system that replaces actual live images of the participating users with animated avatars. A method may include selecting an avatar; initiating communication; detecting a user input; identifying the user input; identifying an animation command based on the user input; generating avatar parameters; and transmitting at least one of the animation command and the avatar parameters.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for using adaptive learning to identify objects. An object-identifying device performs a first object identification based on one or more features of a first modality of an object retrieved from an image frame including the object and a first database including first modality identification features. A second object identification is performed based on one or more features of a second modality of the object retrieved from the image frame and a second database including second modality identification features. The second database is updated by adaptively learning a new second modality identification feature according to a first identification result of the first object identification. The second object identification is trained with the updated second database and determines a final identification result by integrating a first identification result of the first object identification and a second identification result of the second object identification.

Abstract: Generally this disclosure describes a video communication system that replaces actual live images of the participating users with animated avatars. A method may include selecting an avatar; initiating communication; detecting a user input; identifying the user input; identifying an animation command based on the user input; generating avatar parameters; and transmitting at least one of the animation command and the avatar parameters.

Abstract: A Fresnel lens mold is disclosed, comprising stacked bendable strips. An optical structure is provided on one edge of each strip, which is the same as a lens structure on a corresponding endless strip of a Fresnel lens. A manufacturing method for the Fresnel lens mold comprises: designing a Fresnel lens according to an optical characteristic requirement, selecting bendable strips, processing, on one edge of each strip, an optical structure that is the same as a lens structure on a corresponding endless strip of the Fresnel lens, and according to the position of the endless strip of the Fresnel lens and the orientation of the lens structure on the endless strip, stacking the strip on which the optical structure is processed, so as to obtain the Fresnel lens model. Further provided is a method for manufacturing a Fresnel lens by using the foregoing Fresnel lens mold.

Abstract: A system, article, and method of neural network object recognition for image processing includes customizing a training database and adapting an instance segmentation neural network used to perform the customization.

Abstract: A system and method of teaching a neural network through reinforcement learning methodology. The system includes a machine-readable medium having one or more processors that perform a motion task to produce a first result corresponding to navigating a device during a first episode and performing an interaction task during that same episode. After completion of the first episode a processor calculates a Q value change based on the first task result and the second task result. The processor then modifies parameters based on the Q value change such that during subsequent episode iterations the motion task and interactive task are improved and a smooth and continuous transition occurs between these two tasks.

Abstract: A system, article, and method of point cloud registration using overlap regions for image processing.

Abstract: Generally this disclosure describes a video communication system that replaces actual live images of the participating users with animated avatars. A method may include selecting an avatar; initiating communication; detecting a user input; identifying the user input; identifying an animation command based on the user input; generating avatar parameters; and transmitting at least one of the animation command and the avatar parameters.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to match images using semantic features are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a semantic labeler to determine a semantic label for each of a first set of points of a first image and each of a second set of points of a second image; a binary robust independent element features (BRIEF) determiner to determine semantic BRIEF descriptors for a first subset of the first set of points and a second subset of the second set of points based on the semantic labels; and a point matcher to match first points of the first subset of points to second points of the second subset of points based on the semantic BRIEF descriptors.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a highly effective in situ treatment method for endogenous pollution in sludge, belonging to the field of environmental engineering water treatment. In view of the problem that it is difficult to effectively treat the endogenous pollution of river sludge, the present invention provides the highly effective in situ treatment method for endogenous pollution in sludge, which specifically adopts a combination of phoslock, calcium peroxide and aluminum modified zeolite to perform in-situ remediation of sludge, effectively inhibit the release of endogenous pollution of sludge, facilitate the ecological treatment of polluted water subsequently, and finally realize the long-term water improvement against pollution.

Abstract: Generally this disclosure describes a video communication system that replaces actual live images of the participating users with animated avatars. A method may include selecting an avatar; initiating communication; detecting a user input; identifying the user input; identifying an animation command based on the user input; generating avatar parameters; and transmitting at least one of the animation command and the avatar parameters.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of engineering vehicles, and, a cab frame, a cab and an engineering vehicle. A cab frame provided by the present disclosure includes a support framework, where the support framework includes a bottom frame, a top frame, and a four-upright-column structure supported between the bottom frame and the top frame; the four-upright-column structure includes two front upright columns and two rear upright columns, and an inner dimension of the cab frame increases along the bottom-to-top direction. As the cab frame is configured into a four-upright support structure with a large upper portion and a small lower portion, the cab is provided with a smaller dimension of the lower portion, a larger dimension of the upper portion, and fewer uprights at the same time, which reduces visual field obstruction arising from a baseplate and uprights and provides sufficient movement space for an operator head.