This paper considers an optimal pricing problem for the black box producer-consumer Stackelberg game. A producer sets price over a set of goods to maximize profit (the difference in revenue and cost function). The consumer buys a quantity to maximize the difference between the value of the quantity consumed and the cost. The value function of the consumer and the cost function of the producer are ‘black

Current visual servoing methods used in robot manipulation require system modeling and parameters, only working in structured environments. This paper presents a nonparametric visual servoing for a robot manipulator operated in unstructured environments. A Gaussian-mapping likelihood process is used in Bayesian stochastic state estimation (SSE) for Robotic coordination control, in which the Monte Carlo

Head pose estimation is a crucial problem for many tasks, such as driver attention, fatigue detection, and human behaviour analysis. It is well known that neural networks are better at handling classification problems than regression problems. It is an extremely nonlinear process to let the network output the angle value directly for optimization learning, and the weight constraint of the loss function

Face alignment has been applied widely in the field of computer vision, which is still a very challenging task for the existence of large pose, partial occlusion, and illumination, etc. The method based on deep regression neural network has achieved the most advanced performance in the field of face alignment in recent years, and how to learn more representative facial appearance is the key to face

The issue of the global dissipativity of memristive neutral-type inertial neural networks with distributed and discrete time-varying delays is discussed without converting the original system to first-order equations. By taking some new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals and adopting inequality techniques, several effective criteria formulated by testable algebraic inequalities are derived to assure the

Many performance improvement techniques calibrate the outputs of convolutional layers to improve the performance of convolutional neural networks, e.g., Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks (SENets). These techniques train the network to extract calibration weights from the input itself. However, these methods increase the complexity of the model in order to perform calibration. We propose an approach to

Due to the complex dynamic behavior of a wastewater treatment process (WWTP), the existing soft-sensing models usually fail to efficiently and accurately predict its effluent water quality. Especially when a lot of practical data is provided and we do not know which data-pair is more valuable, WWTP modeling becomes a time-consuming process. The main reason is that the existing soft-sensing models update

Story ending generation is a challenging and under-explored task, which aims at generating a coherent, reasonable, and logical story ending given a context. Previous studies mainly focus on utilizing the contextual information and commonsense knowledge to generate story endings. However, there are still some issues must be addressed in the story endings generation processing, such as sentimental consistency

The task of session-based recommendation is predicting the next recommendation item when available information only includes the anonymous behavior sequence. Previous methods of session-based recommendation usually integrate the general interest, dynamic interest, and current interest to promote recommendation performance. However, most existing methods ignore the non-monotone feature interactions

Hyperspectral remote sensing is an important earth observation method with wide application. But the low spatial resolution of hyperspectral images makes it difficult to distinguish the ground objects. The hyperspectral image unmixing is a task to estimate the spectral signatures and corresponding fractional abundances. However, the unmixing speed and efficiency are still limited by traditional structures

Evolutionary algorithm (EA) incorporating with k-means local search operator represents an important approach for cluster analysis. In the existing EA approach, however, the k-means operators are usually directly employed on the individuals and generally applied with fixed intensity as well as frequency during evolution, which could significantly limit their performance. In this paper, we first introduce

Predicting users’ preference in a context of the uncertainty of user and the limited information is a challenging work in many online services, e.g., e-commerce and media streaming. Recent advances in session-based recommendation mostly focus on mining more available information within the current session. However, those methods ignored the sessions with similar context for the current session, which

Face sketch synthesis aims to generate a face sketch image from a corresponding photo image and has wide applications in law enforcement and digital entertainment. Despite the remarkable achievements that have been made in face sketch synthesis, most existing works pay main attention to the facial content transfer, at the expense of facial detail information. In this paper, we present a new generative

The suppression of interference for speech recognition is of great significance in noisy situation, especially in single channel receiving mode, the suppression of interference is much more difficult. In this paper, we propose a generative adversarial network (GAN) based method for single channel dereverberation and speech separation. Different from the existing methods, our method considers the influence

Zero-shot learning and self-supervised learning have been widely studied due to the advantage of performing representation learning in a data shortage situation efficiently. However, few studies consider zero-shot learning using semantic embeddings (e.g., CNN features or attributes) and self-supervision simultaneously. The reason is that most zero-shot learning works employ vector-level semantic embeddings

Compared with general joint-link robotic systems, bio-inspired musculoskeletal robotic systems offer the advantages of higher robustness, flexibility, and redundancy. Hence, they are a promising option for the development of next-generation robots. However, theoretical analysis regarding the superiorities of musculoskeletal systems is scarce. This study analyzes and proves the anti-interference of

Learning-based methods have attracted considerable interest in image dehazing. However, most existing methods are not well adapted to different hazy conditions, especially when dealing with the heavily hazy scene. There is often a significant amount of haze that remains in the images recovered by most methods. To address this issue, we propose an end-to-end Haze Concentration Adaptive Network (HCAN)

Brain plasticity or neuroplasticity refers to the ability of the nervous system to reorganise itself in response to stimuli. For instance, sensory and motor stimulation, memory formation, and learning depend on brain plasticity. Neuronal synchronisation can be enhanced or suppressed by the plasticity. Synchronisation is related to many functions in the brain, as well as to some brain disorders. One

Remote sensing image scene classification is challenging due to the complicated spatial arrangement and varied object sizes inside a large-scale aerial image. Among the bottlenecks for current deep learning methods to depict and discriminate the complexity of remote sensing scenes, strengthening the local semantic representation and multi-scale feature representation is necessary. In this paper, we

This paper is concerned with the problem of stochastic stability analysis for fractional-order Markovian jumping complex-valued neural networks (MJCVNNs) with time-varying delays. The novelty of this study is emphasized in two phases. In first phase, MJCVNNs is considered in the form of fractional-order systems. Secondly, complex-valued Wirtinger based integral inequality is newly constructed. The

The boundary quality is a key factor determining the success of accurate salient object detection (SOD). A number of edge-guided SOD methods have been proposed to improve the boundary quality, but shown unsatisfactory performance due to the lack of a comprehensive consideration of multi-level feature fusion and multi-type feature aggregation. To resolve this issue, we propose a novel Bidirectional

This paper presents the theoretical results on the multistability of state-dependent switching neural networks with discontinuous nonmonotonic piecewise linear activation functions. For n-neurons switching model, this paper shows that neural networks have 7n equilibrium points, 6n of which are located at the continuous points of activation functions and others are located at the discontinuous points

Making full use of the spatial information of the depth data is crucial for 3D hand pose estimation from a single depth image. In this paper, we propose a Spatial-aware Stacked Regression Network (SSRN) for fast, robust and accurate 3D hand pose estimation from a single depth image. By adopting a differentiable pose re-parameterization process, our method efficiently encodes the pose-dependent 3D spatial

Orientation field is the key foundation of palmprint feature extraction and recognition. However, due to the presence of numerous wide creases, the palmprint orientation field can hardly be accurately estimated by previous methods, especially in the thenar region, which still faces huge challenges. To solve this problem, we formulate palmprint orientation field recovery as an inpainting task and propose

Recently, due to its widespread applications in public safety, anomaly detection in crowd scenes has become a hot topic. Some deep-learning-based methods attain significant achievements in this field. Nevertheless, most of them suffer from over-fitting to some extent because of scarce data, which are usually abrupt and low-frequency in the real world. To remedy the above problem, this paper firstly

Despite the promising performance for clustering, weighted tensor nuclear norm based multi-view subspace clustering needs to artificially predefine a weighted vector when shrinking all the singular values of tensor. It is very difficult to select a suitable weighted vector due to the complex and unknown distribution of data in real applications. Another limitation is that, the learned affinity matrix

In this work, we propose a progressive principal component analysis (PPCA) method for compressing deep convolutional neural networks. The proposed method starts with a prespecified layer and progressively moves on to the final output layer. For each target layer, PPCA conducts kernel principal component analysis for the estimated kernel weights. This leads to a significant reduction in the number of

Action Unit (AU) detection plays an important role in facial behaviour analysis. In the literature, AU detection has extensive researches in macro-expressions. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is limited research about AU analysis for micro-expressions. In this paper, we focus on AU detection in micro-expressions. Due to the small quantity and low intensity of micro-expression databases

This paper proposes a solution to translating the visible images into infrared images, which is challenging in computer vision. Our solution belongs to unsupervised learning, which has recently become popular in image-to-image translation. However, existing methods do not produce satisfactory results because (1) most existing methods are mainly used in entertainment scenarios with single scenes and

In this paper, a robust non-singular fast terminal sliding mode control scheme with adaptive neural networks is presented for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown bounds of uncertainties. To reduce transmission and computation burden in resource-constrained networked systems, two kinds of event-triggering mechanisms are taken into consideration in the proposed adaptive sliding mode control scheme

An increasing number of change detection models are designed with different convolutional neural network (CNNs). However, the mechanism for designing network layers that can effectively extract robust features for different scenes remains unclear. Thus, novel networks with fluid pyramid integration network (FPIN) to detect changes are proposed in this study. Specifically, we first extract multi-scale

The problem of pursuing the data items of a large database whose distances to a query item are the least is known as Similarity Search (Nearest Neighbor Search) problem. There exist various algorithms to address this problem. Some of the well known algorithms are i) exact algorithms ii) approximation algorithms and iii) randomized algorithms. This paper has made study only on exact and approximation

This paper proposes a vertex-based graph convolutional neural network (vertex-CNN) for analyzing structured data on graphs. We represent graphs using semi-regular triangulated meshes in which each vertex has 6 connected neighbors. We generalize classical CNN defined on equi-spaced grids to that defined on semi-regular triangulated meshes by introducing main building blocks of the CNN, including convolution

Haze removal is an important pre-processing step in many computer vision tasks. Convolutional neural networks, especially the U-shaped networks, have shown to be effective in image dehazing. Nevertheless, these networks have three main limitations. First, the relevant haze information, e.g. concentration of haze, is totally ignored. Second, spatial inconsistency and information dilution usually occur

Multi-Target Regression problem comprises the prediction of multiple continuous variables given a common set of input features, unlike traditional regression tasks, where just one output target is available. There are two major challenges when addressing this problem, namely the exploration of the inter-target dependencies and the modeling of complex input–output relationships. This work proposes a

Deep learning-based palmprint recognition algorithms have obtained promising performance. However, the previous methods require a large amount of labeled samples, which are difficult to obtain. In this paper, a novel cross-dataset palmprint recognition method is proposed using as low as one labelled sample per subject in the target palmprint dataset based on adversarial domain adaptation. Two different

Human activity recognition (HAR) and cycle analysis, such as gait analysis, have become an integral part of daily lives from gesture recognition to step counting. As the available data and the possible application areas grow, an efficient solution without the need of handcrafted feature extraction is needed. We propose a multi-task recurrent neural network architecture that uses inertial sensor data

In this paper, a kind of memristor-resistor bridge synapses are applied to neural networks, which makes the connection weights of networks continuously adjustable. A novel model for this new kind of neural networks is established, in which the memory characteristic of memristors is retained. The state synchronization of the model with the influence of Lévy noise is investigated. By making use of the

In existing state-of-the-art object detectors, feature pyramid networks (FPN) and multiscale feature fusion are still typically used. The traditional FPN fusion strategy is based on the top-down fusion of high-level semantic information. The top-down fusion method generally uses upsampling based on interpolation, which often results in jagged edges, mosaic distortion, and edge blurring. Moreover, in

Smoke detection based on video monitoring is of great importance for early fire warning. However, most of the smoke detection methods based on neural network only consider the normal weather. The harsh weather such as the fog environment is ignored. In this paper, we propose a smoke detection in normal and fog weather, which combines attention mechanism and feature-level and decision-level fusion module

In this paper, the H∞ sliding mode control (SMC) problem is discussed for a class of uncertain discrete networked systems with channel fading and randomly varying nonlinearities (RVNs) by employing the observer-based approach. Here, the Jth-order Rice fading model is adopted to describe the phenomenon of channel fading, where the channel coefficients are mutually independent random variables that take

This paper addresses the berthing control problem for automatic ships by using a virtual guide system based on heuristic dynamic programming (HDP) method. Firstly, by introducing an automatic virtual guide system, the berthing control problem can be transformed into a tracking control problem, and then can be further transformed into an optimal regulation problem. Secondly, the HDP method is used to

Facing the challenge of distributed computing on processing large-scale data, this paper proposes a consensus-based decentralized training method with communication compression. First, the decentralized training method is designed based on the decentralized topology to reduce the communication burden on the busiest agent and avoid any agent revealing its locally stored data. The convergence of the

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained sentiment analysis task designed to predict the sentiment polarity of each aspect term in a text. Recent research mainly uses neural networks to model text and utilizes attention mechanisms to interact for associate aspect terms and context to obtain more effective feature representation. However, the general attention mechanism is easy to lose

Bayesian estimation of finite Gamma mixture model (GaMM) has attracted considerable attention recently due to its capability of modeling positive data. With conventional variational inference (VI) frameworks, we cannot derive an analytically tractable solution for the variational posterior, since the expectation of the joint distribution of all the random variables cannot be estimated in a closed form

This paper investigates the problem of bipartite consensus tracking for a class of linear singular multi-agent systems under a signed graph topology, where the control input of each agent is subject to saturation. By exploiting a parametric algebraic Riccati equation (ARE)-based low-gain feedback approach, a static state feedback control protocol and a dynamic observer-based output feedback control

Deploying deep convolutional neural networks on mobile devices is challenging because of the conflict between their heavy computational overhead and the hardware’s restricted computing capacity. Network quantization is typically used to alleviate this problem. However, we found that a “datatype mismatch” issue in existing low bitwidth quantization approaches can generate severe instruction redundancy

Part-based methods for person re-identification have been widely studied. In existing part-based methods, although multiple parts are explored, only coarse-grained features of these parts are utilized. Thus, too much fine-grained information is discarded, which limits their ability to extract detailed discriminative features. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel person re-identification network

In vehicular networks, most content delivery schemes only utilize vehicle cooperation or powerful infrastructure to satisfy data requests. How to fully utilize vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications to improve data acquisition still requires further analysis. In this paper, the content delivery problem is formulated as a maximum flow of a directed network, which implies the

Analyzing small amplitude of floor vibrations is a new promising means for identifying the types of human activities, e.g., walking around and accidental falls. In this paper, we consider the binary classification problem of floor vibrations for the applications like fall detection. For practical use, there are two main issues of the problem. First, the prediction of the classifier should be fast.

This paper addresses the finite-time state estimation problem for semi-Markovian jump neural networks with sensor nonlinearities under the consideration of leakage delay and time-varying delay. The modes of original system and desired estimator are supposed to be asynchronous. Some sufficient conditions are proposed to guarantee the finite-time boundedness as well as mixed H∞ and passive performance

Automated detection of cervical cancer cells/clumps has the potential to significantly reduce error rate and increase productivity in cervical cancer screening. However, most traditional methods rely on the success of accurate cell segmentation and discriminative hand-crafted features extraction. Recently there are emerging deep learning-based methods which train Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)

Asset pricing model is the pillar of modern financial market price theory. It is of great practical and theoretical significance to solve the equilibrium price- dividend function of the asset pricing model. To solve the asset pricing model, this paper develops a novel neural network method called improved trigonometric neural network, which consists of three parts: the improved trigonometric function

We tackle the problem of estimating dense semantic correspondence between two images depicting different instances of the same category. In this paper, we consider semantic context and correspondence information from the neighborhood in order to overcome the drawback of previous works that estimate the correspondence of each pixel or patch independently. To this end, a novel network, called SANet,

Person re-identification plays an important role in searching for a specific person in a camera network with non-overlapping cameras. The most critical problem for re-identification is feature representation. In this paper, a multi-level cross-view consistent feature learning framework is proposed for person re-identification. First, local deep, LOMO and SIFT features are extracted to form multi-level

Time-varying linear complementarity problem (TLCP) has received a great deal of attention due to its broad variety of scientific and engineering applications. Several efficient Zhang neural networks are introduced for solving TLCP in this paper. Theoretical analysis shows that the related error function of the model proposed in this paper eventually tends to zero. The state convergence time periods

This work presents a study on fault diagnosis in vibration signal processing. Rather than building a fault model through frequently used approaches to handling the series data such as LSTM or hidden Markov field, this work processes the vibration signal by moving the time window to generate multiple samples and then transfers fault diagnosis into a traditional supervised learning problem. Stochastic