Video summarization via minimum sparse reconstruction

The rapid growth of video data demands both effective and efficient video summarization methods so that users are empowered to quickly browse and comprehend a large amount of video content. In this paper, we formulate the video summarization task with a novel minimum sparse reconstruction (MSR) problem. That is, the original video sequence can be best reconstructed with as few selected keyframes as possible. Different from the recently proposed convex relaxation based sparse dictionary selection method, our proposed method utilizes the true sparse constraint L₀ norm, instead of the relaxed constraint _L2,1$L_{2,1}$ norm, such that keyframes are directly selected as a sparse dictionary that can well reconstruct all the video frames. An on-line version is further developed owing to the real-time efficiency of the proposed MSR principle. In addition, a percentage of reconstruction (POR) criterion is proposed to intuitively guide users in obtaining a summary with an appropriate length. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets with various types of videos demonstrate that the proposed methods outperform the state of the art.     

一种面向空地一体化组网的体系架构

空间网络是空地一体化组网中地面网络延伸的重要组成部分。针对空间网络为移动星座的场景,传统的空地一体化组网模型将空间网络视为独立自治域,利用边界网关协议将空间网络与地面自治域互联起来,最大化同地面网络保持兼容。然而,传统组网模型存在边界网关面临频繁会话中断或大量路由更新等问题。通过重新审视空间网络的角色定位和边界划定问题,提出一种面向空地一体化组网的体系架构Slink。Slink的核心思想是空间网络为地面网络提供互联通道,利用星地网关隔离空地两网间的路由更新。实验仿真表明,Slink体系架构能够有效减小对空间路由器的路由存储空间需求,降低星地网络间的带宽消耗。     

Topology optimization of a coupled thermal-fluid system under a tangential thermal gradient constraint

This paper presents a continuous adjoint approach for topology optimization of a coupled heat transfer and laminar fluid flow system under tangential thermal gradient (TTG) constraints. In this system, the thermal gradient along the boundary of multiple heat sources needs to be controlled. The design goals are to minimize the temperature of the domain, the fluid power dissipation and the TTG along the boundary of the heat sources. The first two goals are combined into a single cost function with weight variables. The TTG is constrained in one of two forms, an integral form where the integral of TTG squares along the boundaries of heat sources is constrained, or a point-wise form where TTG is constrained point-wise. A gradient-based approach is developed to obtain the optimized designs. A salient feature of our approach is the use of the continuous adjoint approach to derive gradients of both the cost function and two forms of TTG constraints. Numerical examples demonstrate that the continuous adjoint approach leads to successful topological optimization of the constrained thermal-fluid system. The use of TTG constraint is effective in lowering the TTG along the heat source boundaries. The resulting designs exhibit clear black/white contrast.     

多种类病毒相互作用下网络信道破坏程度估计

在多种类病毒的相互作用下,网络信道破坏程度呈现较强的非线性特点,不能准确约束病毒在相互作用下的破坏性.传统的网络破坏程度估计的过程中,仅仅以单一病毒破坏程度叠加的方式去计算参数,计算具有较强的主观性,没有准确描述不同病毒的破坏作用,对评估结果误差影响较大.为解决上述问题,提出一种基于粒子滤波算法的多种类病毒相互作用下网络信道破坏程度估计方法,利用欧式距离方法对全部病毒进行分类,获取不同类型病毒的网络信道破坏程度值.通过粒子滤波算法对单一个体约束的优势,将每一个不同类型的病毒看作一个粒子,并进行训练.根据训练结果,利用粒子滤波算法对当前时刻网络信道破坏程度进行估计,完成整体评估.实验结果表明,利用改进算法进行多种类病毒相互作用下网络信道破坏程度估计,能够有效提高估计的准确率.     

Recover Fault Services via Complex Service-to-Node Mappings in Wireless Sensor Networks

With the motivation of seamlessly extending wireless sensor networks to the external environment, service-oriented architecture comes up as a promising solution. However, as sensor nodes are failure prone, this consequently renders the whole wireless sensor network to seriously faulty. When a particular node is faulty, the service on it should be migrated into those substitute sensor nodes that are in a normal status. Currently, two kinds of approaches exist to identify the substitute sensor nodes: the most common approach is to prepare redundancy nodes, though the involved tasks such as maintaining redundancy nodes, i.e., relocating the new node, lead to an extra burden on the wireless sensor networks. More recently, other approaches without using redundancy nodes are emerging, and they merely select the substitute nodes in a sensor node’s perspective i.e., migrating the service of faulty node to it’s nearest sensor node, though usually neglecting the requirements of the application level. Even a few work consider the need of the application level, they perform at packets granularity and don’t fit well at service granularity. In this paper, we aim to remove these limitations in the wireless sensor network with the service-oriented architecture. Instead of deploying redundancy nodes, the proposed mechanism replaces the faulty sensor node with consideration of the similarity on the application level, as well as on the sensor level. On the application level, we apply the Bloom Filter for its high efficiency and low space costs. While on the sensor level, we design an objective solution via the coefficient of a variation as an evaluation for choosing the substitute on the sensor level.     

探讨计算机网络专业学生的实训教学课程设置

计算机网络专业的学生的实训内容通常是与今后的工作相关联的,这种关联的程度越高,说明实训的效果越好,也可以从一个侧面说明教学越成功。所以,实训项目不应该是凭空设想的,也不应该是几年如一日的照搬照抄的,应该是符合市场需求的,与时俱进的。     

浅谈CAI课件对数学课堂的优化

计算机辅助教学是计算机技术在教学中的直接应用,它利用先进的计算机硬件及其软件帮助或代替教师执行部分教学任务,对学生传授知识和训练技能.本文主要以一年级<分类>这一课为例,从四个方面来探讨CAI课件对数学课堂的优化.     

Direct microscale imprinting of Al at room temperature with Si inserts

For direct imprinting of metals, hard materials such as diamond and SiC have been used to construct mold inserts in preference to Si, despite the ease in fabricating Si-based micro-/nano- scale structures. In this communication, we demonstrate that micron scale Al structures can be replicated with good fidelity at room temperature by compression molding with Si inserts without incurring insert damage. We further report on results of a finite element analysis of the mechanics of the molding process. The finite element results provide some understanding of the observed lack of damage to the Si inserts.