Learning about tools in infancy.

These experiments explored the role of prior experience in 12- to 18-month-old infants' tool-directed actions. In Experiment 1, infants' use of a familiar tool (spoon) to accomplish a novel task (turning on lights inside a box) was examined. Infants tended to grasp the spoon by its handle even when doing so made solving the task impossible (the bowl did not fit through the hole in the box, but the handle did) and even though the experimenter demonstrated a bowl-grasp. In contrast, infants used a novel tool flexibly and grasped both sides equally often. In Experiment 2, infants received training using the novel tool for a particular function; 3 groups of infants were trained to use the tool differently. Later, infants' performance was facilitated on tasks that required infants to grasp the part of the tool they were trained to grasp. The results suggest that (a) infants' prior experiences with tools are important to understanding subsequent tool use, and (b) rather than learning about tool function (e.g., hammering), infants learn about which part of the tool is meant to be held, at least early in their exposure to a novel tool. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

试论就业形势与战略

论述了就业的特殊重要性、目前我国就业形势的极端严重性，以及所应当采取的战略和措施。     

A Novel UWB Pulse Shape Modulation System

In this paper novel modified Hermite polynomial functions for use in impulse radio (ultra-wideband) communications are proposed. With these functions pulse shapes which are orthogonal and have nearly constant pulse width regardless of the pulse order are generated. These properties hold under the effects of differentiation. An M-ary communication system is constructed using these pulse shapes. A Matlab model for generating the pulses is designed and the effect of timing jitter on the performance of the system is investigated by computer simulation.     

基于单幅图像景深和大气散射模型的去雾方法

为恢复雾天图像对比度和颜色,更好地提取图像中的信息,根据海上开阔海域的特点,利用3维到2维透视投影模型,推导了海上图像任意像素点景深的计算公式,并结合暗原色先验知识,有效解决基准景深点的选取和天空亮度的选取问题,最后基于相对景深模型和大气散射模型,对单幅雾天图像进行清晰化处理。通过大量雾天降质图像的实验验证,该算法的去雾效果优于基于暗原色先验统计方法的效果。     

基于局部自适应先验MRF模型的快速BP图像分割算法

针对常规MRF分割模型不能有效描述图像的局部特征、常导致图像的过分割现象,提出了一种局部自适应先验的MRF模型。该模型利用图像的邻接区域信息建立了一种局部自适应特征MRF模型。基于提出的模型,建立了一种具有快速收敛策略的区域BP算法对MRF模型的区域消息进行传递,有效解决了区域BP算法的计算量大的问题。实验结果表明,与常规区域BP算法相比,提出的分割方法具有更快的分割速度和精度。     

基于先验知识的自适应多叉树防碰撞算法

为提高无线射频识别(RFID)系统快速识别大量标签的能力,提出一种基于先验知识的自适应多叉树防碰撞算法。利用标签访问的规律性和标签分布的随机性,在不同的搜索深度,根据已有的先验知识和碰撞比特信息估计待识别的标签数量,从而动态地自适应选择搜索叉树。通过有效减少碰撞和空闲时隙数,大幅提高读写器搜索和识别标签的能力。理论分析与仿真实验结果表明,该算法能克服传统自适应多叉树防碰撞算法的缺点,合理选择初始搜索叉树,尤其在待识别标签数量较多的场合,可有效提高RFID系统的吞吐率。     

Bayesian estimation of Dirichlet mixture model with variational inference

In statistical modeling, parameter estimation is an essential and challengeable task. Estimation of the parameters in the Dirichlet mixture model (DMM) is analytically intractable, due to the integral expressions of the gamma function and its corresponding derivatives. We introduce a Bayesian estimation strategy to estimate the posterior distribution of the parameters in DMM. By assuming the gamma distribution as the prior to each parameter, we approximate both the prior and the posterior distribution of the parameters with a product of several mutually independent gamma distributions. The extended factorized approximation method is applied to introduce a single lower-bound to the variational objective function and an analytically tractable estimation solution is derived. Moreover, there is only one function that is maximized during iterations and, therefore, the convergence of the proposed algorithm is theoretically guaranteed. With synthesized data, the proposed method shows the advantages over the EM-based method and the previously proposed Bayesian estimation method. With two important multimedia signal processing applications, the good performance of the proposed Bayesian estimation method is demonstrated.     

基于概率支持向量回归的产品设计时间预测模型

为使产品设计时间预测既克服小样本、异方差噪声问题,又提供除预测值以外的其他有用信息,建立概率支持向量回归(PSVR)模型。首先,在异方差回归模型基础上设计概率约束条件,以使预测值以较大概率位于真实值的某邻域,结合具有参数不敏感损失函数的支持向量回归确定优化目标,提出PSVR。然后,将最大完工时间知识嵌入进PSVR的约束条件,用以确定真实值邻域的宽度,将交叉验证与遗传算法相结合以确定PSVR的相关参数。最后,以注塑模具设计的实例进行分析,结果表明基于PSVR的时间预测方法可同时提供有效的预测值和预测区间。     

一类Bayes公式的推导及在小子样评估中的应用

工程中昂贵复杂系统的整机试验通常是小子样的,因此需要结合大量的先验信息进行系统评估,但这可能造成小子样的整机试验数据的信息被淹没。与通常考虑加权的融合方法不同,基于精度评估的正态逆伽玛分布推导了一类Bayes公式,将所有先验信息等价为单个整机试验数据,设计了相应的分布参数,结合等价先验样本量得到推导的后验结果,并给出案例分析了这类Bayes公式的应用范围和合理性。     

定时截尾数据缺失Weibull分布的Bayes分析

研究了寿命分布为weibull分布时定时截尾数据缺失下的两个参数与可靠度的Bayes估计,并与极大似然估计比较,表明了这个方法的可行性.