A discriminative learning framework with pairwise constraints for video object classification

To deal with the problem of insufficient labeled data in video object classification, one solution is to utilize additional pairwise constraints that indicate the relationship between two examples, i.e., whether these examples belong to the same class or not. In this paper, we propose a discriminative learning approach which can incorporate pairwise constraints into a conventional margin-based learning framework. Different from previous work that usually attempts to learn better distance metrics or estimate the underlying data distribution, the proposed approach can directly model the decision boundary and, thus, require fewer model assumptions. Moreover, the proposed approach can handle both labeled data and pairwise constraints in a unified framework. In this work, we investigate two families of pairwise loss functions, namely, convex and nonconvex pairwise loss functions, and then derive three pairwise learning algorithms by plugging in the hinge loss and the logistic loss functions. The proposed learning algorithms were evaluated using a people identification task on two surveillance video data sets. The experiments demonstrated that the proposed pairwise learning algorithms considerably outperform the baseline classifiers using only labeled data and two other pairwise learning algorithms with the same amount of pairwise constraints.     

ADSL传输技术概述

介绍ADSL传输技术使用情况及与ISDN等的比较。     

A new sorbent that simultaneously sequesters multiple classes ofpollutants from water: Surfactant modified zeolite

A zeolite (ZFA) was synthesized from coal fly ash and then modified using hexadecyltrimethylammonium. The surfactant modified ZFA (SMZFA) was evaluated for its versatility to sequester multiple classes of pollutants from water. The target pollutants include ionic inorganic pollutants (ammonium and phosphate), ionic organic pollutants (methylene blue and humic acid), ionizable organic pollutants (bisphenol A,-chlorophenol and phenol, with different pKa), and electrically neutral or-ganic pollutants (aniline, nitrobenzene, and naphthalene, with different hydrophobicity). The SMZFA showed high potential for the retention of ammonium and phosphate, being comparable with ZFA. While the negative charge in the internal pores of zeolite was responsible for the retention of ammonium, the oxides of CaO, Al2O3and Fe2O3in the non-zeolite fraction, which originated from coal fly ash but received modification during zeolite synthesis, accounted for the removal of phosphate. Results also showed that while ZFA had little affinity for humic acid, the ionizable, and the electrically neutral organic compounds, SMZFA exhibited greatly enhanced adsorption capacity. Thus, the surfactant modified external surface, which formed a bilayer micelle of zeolite, imparts a hydrophobic characteristic that enables the uptake of the organic pollutants. We showed that SMZFA is a promising versatile sorbent for water treatment.     

Robust and efficient ridge-based palmprint matching

During the past decade, many efforts have been made to use palmprints as a biometric modality. However, most of the existing palmprint recognition systems are based on encoding and matching creases, which are not as reliable as ridges. This affects the use of palmprints in large-scale person identification applications where the biometric modality needs to be distinctive as well as insensitive to changes in age and skin conditions. Recently, several ridge-based palmprint matching algorithms have been proposed to fill the gap. Major contributions of these systems include reliable orientation field estimation in the presence of creases and the use of multiple features in matching, while the matching algorithms adopted in these systems simply follow the matching algorithms for fingerprints. However, palmprints differ from fingerprints in several aspects: 1) Palmprints are much larger and thus contain a large number of minutiae, 2) palms are more deformable than fingertips, and 3) the quality and discrimination power of different regions in palmprints vary significantly. As a result, these matchers are unable to appropriately handle the distortion and noise, despite heavy computational cost. Motivated by the matching strategies of human palmprint experts, we developed a novel palmprint recognition system. The main contributions are as follows: 1) Statistics of major features in palmprints are quantitatively studied, 2) a segment-based matching and fusion algorithm is proposed to deal with the skin distortion and the varying discrimination power of different palmprint regions, and 3) to reduce the computational complexity, an orientation field-based registration algorithm is designed for registering the palmprints into the same coordinate system before matching and a cascade filter is built to reject the nonmated gallery palmprints in early stage. The proposed matcher is tested by matching 840 query palmprints against a gallery set of 13,736 palmprints. Experimental results show that the proposed matcher outperforms the existing matchers a lot both in matching accuracy and speed.     

Tracking mobile users in wireless networks via semi-supervised colocalization

Recent years have witnessed the growing popularity of sensor and sensor-network technologies, supporting important practical applications. One of the fundamental issues is how to accurately locate a user with few labeled data in a wireless sensor network, where a major difficulty arises from the need to label large quantities of user location data, which in turn requires knowledge about the locations of signal transmitters or access points. To solve this problem, we have developed a novel machine learning-based approach that combines collaborative filtering with graph-based semi-supervised learning to learn both mobile users' locations and the locations of access points. Our framework exploits both labeled and unlabeled data from mobile devices and access points. In our two-phase solution, we first build a manifold-based model from a batch of labeled and unlabeled data in an offline training phase and then use a weighted k-nearest-neighbor method to localize a mobile client in an online localization phase. We extend the two-phase colocalization to an online and incremental model that can deal with labeled and unlabeled data that come sequentially and adapt to environmental changes. Finally, we embed an action model to the framework such that additional kinds of sensor signals can be utilized to further boost the performance of mobile tracking. Compared to other state-of-the-art systems, our framework has been shown to be more accurate while requiring less calibration effort in our experiments performed on three different testbeds.     

Design of a modified repetitive-control system based on a continuous–discrete 2D model

This paper concerns the problem of designing a modified repetitive-control system for a class of strictly proper plants. Repetitive control involves two types of actions: control and learning; but the insertion of a low-pass filter in a modified repetitive controller, which is employed to guarantee the stability of the system, mixes the two actions together. In this paper, a continuous–discrete two-dimensional model is first constructed. Next, the continuity of repetitive control and Lyapunov stability theory are applied to the model to establish two linear-matrix-inequality (LMI) based sufficient stability conditions, one for the design of the cutoff angular frequency and one for the design of the feedback gains. The features of these conditions are exploited to develop an iterative algorithm that searches for the best combination of the maximum cutoff angular frequency of the low-pass filter and the feedback gains. A numerical example illustrates the design procedure and demonstrates the validity of the method.     

体育教育在培养高职院校学生综合素质中的作用研究——基于成都纺织高等专科学校的实证研究

采用文献法、专家访问法、问卷调查法、数理统计等方法,调查研究高职院校学生综合素质培养的情况,了解当前存在的问题,为让体育在培养学生素质中发挥其功能和作用,对学生素质培养进行多方位思考,提出体育教育对学生综合素质培养具体方法,以期体育教育在高职院校学生综合素质培养中发挥更大的作用。     

云南综合类高校教学质量调查与分析——基于学生视角的教学质量现状分析

通过文献检索、问卷调查等方式,将在校生对学校教学环境的满意度、对学校和专业的认同感、对学校教学活动的认同感、参与学校管理的意识、见习状况、教学成效等因素的满意度作为高校教学质量评估体系构成的主要内容,对云南省4所综合类高校的教学质量进行调查研究,探讨云南省综合类高校教学质量存在的问题,并在此基础上提出相应对策。     

Preface

Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in research on data mining on social networks and social media. Theubiquitous nature of Web-enabled devices, including desktops,     

OSF:一种支持SaaS应用的构件框架

离线SaaS应用可以工作在时断时续的网络连接环境下,是一种环境可感知的智能SaaS软件.目前支持离线访问Web应用的研究成果较少,且其没有考虑到SaaS的特性,更没有形成构件化框架.为了解决上述问题,提出了离线SaaS框架OSF(Offline SaaS Framework),并给出了支持离线访问的面向操作的构件框架的结构和运行机制.通过案例描述验证了该构件框架的功能和性能.理论和实验表明,离线SaaS应用框架极大地改善了用户体验,保证了SaaS服务的可用性,扩大了SaaS的应用范围,同时还提高了系统开发效率.