Enhanced wide-activated residual network for efficient and accurate image deblocking

To save bandwidth and storage space as well as speed up data transmission, people usually perform lossy compression on images. Although the JPEG standard is a simple and effective compression method, it usually introduces various visually unpleasing artifacts, especially the notorious blocking artifacts. In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have seen remarkable development in compression artifacts reduction. Despite the excellent performance, most deep CNNs suffer from heavy computation due to very deep and wide architectures. In this paper, we propose an enhanced wide-activated residual network (EWARN) for efficient and accurate image deblocking. Specifically, we propose an enhanced wide-activated residual block (EWARB) as basic construction module. Our EWARB gives rise to larger activation width, better use of interdependencies among channels, and more informative and discriminative non-linearity activation features without more parameters than residual block (RB) and wide-activated residual block (WARB). Furthermore, we introduce an overlapping patches extraction and combination (OPEC) strategy into our network in a full convolution way, leading to large receptive field, enforced compatibility among adjacent blocks, and efficient deblocking. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our EWARN outperforms several state-of-the-art methods quantitatively and qualitatively with relatively small model size and less running time, achieving a good trade-off between performance and complexity.     

Computing surfaces invariant under subdivision

In this paper, we propose a general subdivision algorithm for generating surfaces. The algorithm has as motivation our earlier work on the design of free form curves where similar ideas were investigated. Here we describe some properties of uniform refinement algorithms for surface generation. A detail analysis of their properties will be given later by one of us.     

Valley floor landscape change following almost 100 years of flood embankment abandonment on a wandering gravel‐bed river

Critical to restoring the nature conservation value of many river corridors is an understanding of how alluvial landscapes will respond to cessation of river management and land use practices that have previously degraded the environment. This paper analyses changes in valley floor landforms and vegetation patch dynamics, in relation to fluvial disturbance, over a period of almost 100 years following flood embankment abandonment on a wandering gravel‐bed river, namely the River Tummel, Scotland. Such rivers were once typical of many draining upland areas of northern maritime Europe. Prior to abandonment the valley floor landscape was agriculturally dominated and the river for the most part was single thread confined between flood embankments. The pattern of landform change and vegetation patch development over time following a decision in 1903 not to maintain embankments was tracked by geomorphic and land cover mapping utilizing successive sets of aerial photography for the period 1946 to 1994. A historical context for these changes was also feasible because the channel planform in 1900 and earlier channel planform changes dating back to 1753 were known due to the availability of old maps and earlier geomorphic studies. The land cover mapping was validated by comparison of results produced from the interpretation work on the 1994 aerial photographs with the field‐based UK National Vegetation Classification protocol. The findings of the study illustrate that bordering the River Tummel fluvial landforms and vegetation patch mosaics, presumably resembling those that occurred before valley floor land use intensification, evolved in less than 50 years after flood embankment abandonment with a resultant increase in habitat diversity. The change relates primarily to flood‐induced channel planform change and moderate levels of fluvial disturbance. The general significance of this change to plant species diversity on the valley floor of the River Tummel and elsewhere is discussed as is possible implications of the upstream impoundment and scenarios for climatically induced changes in flood frequency and magnitude. The overall outcome is the strong possibility that simple changes in river management and land use practices could result in re‐establishment of the nature conservation value of similar river corridors in Europe over the medium term without active restoration efforts. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

虚拟化安全建设研究

首先分析了虚拟化给传统信息安全带来的挑战,然后分别从边界防护、病毒防护、补丁管理以及虚拟化基础设施保护四个方面,阐述了在虚拟化环境下如何进行安全防护。     

TURBULENT FLOW IN A PIPE WITH INTERMITTENT ROUGH PATCHES: AN ANALOGUE OF ANNULAR TWO-PHASE FLOW

The response of turbulent pipe flow to sudden changes in wall roughness and flow cross-sectional area has been studied experimentally and numerically. Changes typical of those encountered by the gas phase in annular gas-liquid flow have been considered. The results show that the flow field and the pressure field can be significantly distorted at these transitions. Good agreement has been obtained between the measured results and those calculated using the Harwell-FLOW3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code.     

On rationally supported surfaces

We analyze the class of surfaces which are equipped with rational support functions. Any rational support function can be decomposed into a symmetric (even) and an antisymmetric (odd) part. We analyze certain geometric properties of surfaces with odd and even rational support functions. In particular it is shown that odd rational support functions correspond to those rational surfaces which can be equipped with a linear field of normal vectors, which were discussed by Sampoli et al. (Sampoli, M.L., Peternell, M., Jüttler, B., 2006. Rational surfaces with linear normals and their convolutions with rational surfaces. Comput. Aided Geom. Design 23, 179–192). As shown recently, this class of surfaces includes non-developable quadratic triangular Bézier surface patches (Lávička, M., Bastl, B., 2007. Rational hypersurfaces with rational convolutions. Comput. Aided Geom. Design 24, 410–426; Peternell, M., Odehnal, B., 2008. Convolution surfaces of quadratic triangular Bézier surfaces. Comput. Aided Geom. Design 25, 116–129).     

Development of an Asymmetric Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Ultrathin Graphene Oxide Membrane as Actuator and Conformable Patch for Heart Repair

A conductive engineered cardiac patch (ECP) can reconstruct the biomimetic regenerative microenvironment of an infarcted myocardium. Direct ink writing (DIW) and 3D printing can produce an ECP with precisely controlled microarchitectures. However, developing a printed ECP with high conductivity and flexibility for gapless attachment to conform to epicardial geometry remains a challenge. Herein, an asymmetrical DIW hydrophobic/hydrophilic membrane using heat-processed graphene oxide (GO) ink is developed. The “Masked spin coating” method is also developed that leads to a microscale GO (hydrophilic)/reduced GO (rGO, hydrophobic) physiological sensor, as well as a macroscale moisture-driven GO/rGO actuator. Depositing mussel-inspired polydopamine (PDA) coating on the one side of the DIW rGO , the ultrathin (approximately 500 nm) PDA-rGO (hydrophilic)/rGO (hydrophobic) microlattice (DrGOM) ECP is bestowed with the flexibility and moisture-responsive actuation that allows gapless attachment to the curved surface of the epicardium. Conformable DrGOM exhibits a promising therapeutic effect on rats' infarcted hearts through conductive microenvironment reconstruction and improved neovascularization.     

基于补丁引发新漏洞的防攻击方法研究

文章针对漏洞补丁的修补方法进行了深入研究,分析了漏洞补丁后可能引入新的安全隐患,提出了基于漏洞补丁引发新漏洞的漏洞挖掘方法,并进行了方法论证.最后以使用此方法发现的Windows操作系统未知漏洞案例验证了该方法的有效性.     

基于压电陶瓷的柔性机械臂主动振动控制实验研究

柔性机构因其工作效率高,能量消耗低和结构简单等优点被广泛应用于机器人领域.但柔性机构由于刚度较低,易产生弹性振动,使机器人的定位精度和运动精度降低.为了验证在前期的工作中提出的柔性机械臂主动振动最优控制位置分析的正确性,搭建了一个基于Labview的测试系统.在柔性臂上不同位置粘贴压电片来实现对柔性臂不同位置的主动振动控制,通过测试系统得到最优控制位置处和最优控制位置附近的柔性机械臂振动的传感电压,根据控制前后传感电压的变化分析柔性臂抑制的强弱.根据实验结果显示,柔性臂在前三阶振动下,分别在其最优控制位置上获得最高的抑振率,从而验证了最优控制位置的有效性.     

基于WSUS的自动更新在气象局域网内的应用

保障气象网络安全是气象业务正常开展的首要前提,而及时更新操作系统补丁,是弥补系统漏洞、防范攻击的必要手段。本文叙述了微软补丁更新方案 WSUS 的概念和优势,并结合气象业务网络的实际,阐述了 WSUS 在服务器端和客户端的具体部署方法,并分析了潜在的安全风险。