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Multi-scale pyramidal hash learning for traditional building facade image retrieval
Retrieving images captured of buildings is a critical need for intelligent urban management and tourism services. The different shooting angles, locations and distances lead to images under the same building o...
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Multi-scale fusion transformer based weakly supervised hashing learning for instance retrieval
Instance retrieval is concerned with obtaining representations of instances (objects) in images and using them for similarity comparisons between instances. However, most methods require instance-level categor...
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Open AccessSelf-recruited neutrophils trigger over-activated innate immune response and phenotypic change of cardiomyocytes in fulminant viral myocarditis
Fulminant myocarditis (FM) is a life-threatening inflammatory disease. However, the mechanisms underlying its acute onset are unknown. By dynamic cardiac function measurement, we discovered that the initiation...
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Open AccessExtracting clinical named entity for pituitary adenomas from Chinese electronic medical records
Pituitary adenomas are the most common type of pituitary disorders, which usually occur in young adults and often affect the patient’s physical development, labor capacity and fertility. Clinical free texts no...
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Plant recognition via leaf shape and margin features
Botanists and foresters empirically determine plant categories mainly via visual features of leaves, e.g. leaf shape, leaf margin, leaf arrangement and leaf venation. The leaf shape and leaf margin can be capt...
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Open AccessPACES: prediction of N4-acetylcytidine (ac4C) modification sites in mRNA
N4-acetylcytidine (ac4C) is a highly conserved RNA modification and is the first acetylation event described in mRNA. ac4C in mRNA has been demonstrated to be involved in the regulation of mRNA stability, proc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Structural Behavior Analysis and Optimization, Integrating MATLAB with Autodesk Robot
The concepts of structural behavior analysis and optimization have started to be combined in the latest decades with an increasing trend also due to the need of often meeting performance targets, high structur...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-view Viewpoint Assessment for Architectural Photos
This paper proposes a robust method of viewpoint assessment for taking a good photograph of architecture. Unlike the conventional works devoted to assessing the aesthetic of a photograph mainly relying on the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Achieving Smart Water Network Management Through Semantically Driven Cognitive Systems
Achieving necessary resilience levels in urban water networks is a challenging proposition, with water network operators required to ensure a constant supply of treated water at pre-set pressure levels to a h...
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Locally linear spatial pyramid hash for large-scale image search
Hash-based methods can achieve a fast similarity search by representing high-dimensional data with compact binary codes. However, the spatial structure in row images was always lost in most previous methods. I...
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Nurturing Virtual Collaborative Networks into Urban Resilience for Seismic Hazards Mitigation
A holistic analysis of the resilience of the built environment in relation to natural disasters needs to consider multidimensional parameters being interactive and mutually influencing each other as a collabo...
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MapReduce-based clustering for near-duplicate image identification
In this paper, an effective algorithm is developed for tackling the problem of near-duplicate image identification from large-scale image sets, where the LLC (locality-constrained linear coding) method is seam...
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A Systematic Fire Detection Approach Based on Sparse Least-Squares SVMs
In this paper, a systematic approach adopting sparse least-squares SVMs (LS-SVMs) is proposed to automatically detect fire using vision-based systems with fast speed and good performance. Within this framework...
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An Online Recursive Identification Method over Networks with Random Packet Losses
Under the network environment, data packet losses bring an undesirable effect on parameter identification. To solve this problem, an online recursive identification method over networks with random packet loss...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Integrated Method for the Construction of Compact Fuzzy Neural Models
To construct a compact fuzzy neural model with an appropriate number of inputs and rules is still a challenging problem. To reduce the number of basis vectors most existing methods select significant terms fro...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Efficient Algorithm for Grid-Based Robotic Path Planning Based on Priority Sorting of Direction Vectors
This paper presents an efficient grid-based robotic path planning algorithm. This method is motivated by the engineering requirement in practical embedded systems where the hardware resource is always limited....
