Image tag recommendation based on friendships

The tagging systems have been studied by many researchers in the past decade. Tagging methods have been widely used on the web for searching and recommending images. Social tags are the keywords annotated by users to the images, which contains the information for searching and classifying the images. Tag recommendation system allows mitigating the individual preferences to annotate and recommender images. However, irrelevant and noise tags are frequently included in tags. In this paper, we propose image tag recommendation based on the friends’ relationships in social network (TRboFS) to recommender tags for a new image, both the tags assigned to the favorite images and the friendships of the users who upload the image are employed to predict the tags of the images. Empirical analyses on real datasets show that the proposed approach achieves superior performance to existing approaches.     

A fast inter-frame encoding scheme using the edge information and the spatiotemporal encoding parameters for HEVC

Multimedia Tools and Applications - High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), as a novel video coding standard, has shown a better coding efficiency than all existing standards, such as H.264/AVC. It...     

(t,n) Threshold secret image sharing scheme with adversary structure

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Secret image sharing has been researched intensively, and it has emerged as an alternative to data hiding for protecting the security and privacy of important...     

Reverse direction-based surrounder queries for mobile recommendations

This paper proposes a new spatial query called a reverse direction-based surrounder (RDBS) query, which retrieves a user who is seeing a point of interest (POI) as one of their direction-based surrounders (DBSs). According to a user, one POI can be dominated by a second POI if the POIs are directionally close and the first POI is farther from the user than the second is. Two POIs are directionally close if their included angle with respect to the user is smaller than an angular threshold ??. If a POI cannot be dominated by another POI, it is a DBS of the user. We also propose an extended query called competitor RDBS query. POIs that share the same RDBSs with another POI are defined as competitors of that POI. We design algorithms to answer the RDBS queries and competitor queries. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithms can answer the queries efficiently.     

Discovery of probabilistic nearest neighbors in traffic-aware spatial networks

Travel planning and recommendation have received significant attention in recent years. In this light, we study a novel problem of discovering probabilistic nearest neighbors and planning the corresponding travel routes in traffic-aware spatial networks (TANN queries) to avoid potential time delay/traffic congestions. We propose and study four novel probabilistic TANN queries. Thereinto two queries target at minimizing the travel time, including a congestion-probability threshold query, and a time-delay threshold query, while another two travel-time threshold queries target at minimizing the potential time delay/traffic congestion. We believe that TANN queries are useful in many real applications, such as discovering nearby points of interest and planning convenient travel routes for users, and location based services in general. The TANN queries are challenged by two difficulties: (1) how to define probabilistic metrics for nearest neighbor queries in traffic-aware spatial networks, and (2) how to process these TANN queries efficiently under different query settings. To overcome these challenges, we define a series of new probabilistic metrics and develop four efficient algorithms to compute the TANN queries. The performances of TANN queries are verified by extensive experiments on real and synthetic spatial data.     

Integrated layout and topology optimization design of multi-frame and multi-component fuselage structure systems

The purpose of this paper is to present an extended integrated layout and topology optimization method dealing with the multi-frame and multi-component fuselage structure systems design. Considering an aircraft or aerospace fuselage system including main structure, numbers of frames and featured components located on the frames, a simultaneous optimization procedure is proposed here including geometrical design variables of components and frames as well as topological design variables of main structure and frame structures. The multi-point constraints (MPC) scheme is used to simulate the rivets or bolts connecting the components, frames and structures. The finite circle method (FCM) is implemented to avoid the overlaps among different components and frames. Furthermore, to deal with the difficulties of large numbers of non-overlapping constraints, a penalty method is used here to compose the global strain energy and non-overlapping constraints into a single objective function. To guarantee the fuselage system’s balance, the constraint on the system centroid is also introduced into the optimization. Different numerical examples are tested and the optimized solutions have demonstrated the validity and effectiveness of the proposed formulation.     

Optimized design of sandwich panels for integral thermal protection systems

This paper proposes a new ITPS panel with special corrugated-core webs which are designed with cutouts for weight saving. The structural design problem was formulated with mass per unit area of the ITPS as the objective function and some functional requirements as constraints. We developed the optimizer fulfilling both thermal and structural functions for minimal areal density. The optimization problem was solved by interpolating the residual error of response surface approximation (RSA) with Radial Basis Function (RBF) to establish the improved RSA (IRSA). The 400 preliminary design points were obtained using Latin Hypercube Sampling method. The quadratic polynomial RSA of the ITPS sandwich panel performance was generated by the least squares method (LSM) based on finite element results and IRSA was used to optimize the constraints. Transient heat transfer, stress and buckling analyses were conducted using finite element method (FEM). Finally, a new ITPS panel with optimal dimensions was obtained. The optimization results show that the areal density of the new ITPS panel decreases by 26.27 % compared with the previous research, which proves the potential of this new design optimization method for the future spacecraft vehicles.     

Efficient identity-based online/offline encryption and signcryption with short ciphertext

The technique of online/offline is regarded as a promising approach to speed up the computation of encryption, because the most part of computation, such as pairing over points on elliptic curve and exponentiation in groups, can be pre-computed in the offline phase without knowing the message to be encrypted and/or recipient’s identity. The online phase only requires light computation, such as modular multiplication. In this paper, we propose two novel identity-based online/offline schemes: a full secure identity-based online/offline encryption scheme and an identity-based online/offline signcryption scheme. Compared to the other schemes in the literature, our schemes achieve the shortest ciphertext size in both offline and online phases and demonstrate the best performance in offline computation. Our schemes are applicable to devices with limited computation power. They are proven secure in the random oracle model.     

基于MQTT协议的在线离子色谱仪远程监控系统设计

在线离子色谱仪是可以对样品进行连续自动分析,并以谱图的形式显示样品中离子含量的化学分析仪器。为确保对样品的连续检测,仪器需要不间断的运行。由于设备经常放在工作室或偏远地区,需要对在线离子色谱仪的运行状况进行远程监控。针对此问题设计在线离子色谱仪的远程监控系统。该系统使用轻量级MQTT协议作为通讯协议,通过在线离子色谱仪中集成MQTT客户端,在云服务器中部署MQTT的消息中间件和短信网关,实现了用户在手机应用客户端查看在线离子色谱仪的运行参数、通过手机短信接收紧急报警信息等功能。     

成像光谱技术的古画隐藏信息提取

目的 古画隐藏信息是包含在画作中的一种微弱信息,对于文物鉴定与修复具有非常重要的意义,如何快速无损准确提取古画中微弱的隐藏信息是目前研究和应用的一大技术难题,本文利用高光谱成像技术快速无损提取古画隐藏信息。方法 对古画进行高光谱扫描成像,得到短波红外波段（1 000~2 500 nm）的高光谱立方体数据,联合多种光谱匹配技术分析古画中人物头冠颜料种类;利用主成分分析技术,提取古画头冠周围涂抹痕迹。结果 通过多种光谱匹配算法对颜料进行分析,确定了颜料种类,并对匹配算法进行了对比,结果表明在颜料混合的情况下,光谱匹配算法仍能够有效的识别出混合颜料的端元种类,光谱信息散度与光谱角的匹配算法SID_SA匹配精度可以达到0.096,相比其他匹配算法,效果最好;利用主成分分析技术分层剥离主要背景信息后,头冠周围位于画作底层的涂抹信息得到了加强,可以有效地区分背景颜料信息与涂抹信息,提取隐藏信息。结论 高光谱分析技术对古画隐藏信息的提取有很好地识别效果,能够准确提取绘画颜料种类,发现绘画过程中的涂抹等痕迹,特别适用于混合颜料的种类识别与画作底层信息提取,发掘画作隐藏信息,为文物保护修复与鉴定提供支持。