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Unsupervised Video Hashing With Multi-Granularity Contextualization And Multi-Structure Preservation, Yanbin Hao, Jingru Duan, Hao Zhang, Bin Zhu, Pengyuan Zhou, Xiangnan He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Unsupervised video hashing typically aims to learn a compact binary vector to represent complex video content without using manual annotations. Existing unsupervised hashing methods generally suffer from incomplete exploration of various perspective dependencies (e.g., long-range and short-range) and data structures that exist in visual contents, resulting in less discriminative hash codes. In this paper, we propose aMulti-granularity Contextualized and Multi-Structure preserved Hashing (MCMSH) method, exploring multiple axial contexts for discriminative video representation generation and various structural information for unsupervised learning simultaneously. Specifically, we delicately design three self-gating modules to separately model three granularities of dependencies (i.e., long/middle/short-range dependencies) and densely …

Toward Personalized Answer Generation In E-Commerce Via Multi-Perspective Preference Modeling, Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Wenxuan Zhang, Bolin Ding, Wai Lam

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recently, Product Question Answering (PQA) on E-Commerce platforms has attracted increasing attention as it can act as an intelligent online shopping assistant and improve the customer shopping experience. Its key function, automatic answer generation for product-related questions, has been studied by aiming to generate content-preserving while question-related answers. However, an important characteristic of PQA, i.e., personalization, is neglected by existing methods. It is insufficient to provide the same “completely summarized” answer to all customers, since many customers are more willing to see personalized answers with customized information only for themselves, by taking into consideration their own preferences toward product aspects …

Shell Theory: A Statistical Model Of Reality, Wen-Yan Lin, Siying Liu, Changhao Ren, Ngai-Man Cheung, Hongdong Li, Yasuyuki Matsushita

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Machine learning's grand ambition is the mathematical modeling of reality. The recent years have seen major advances using deep-learned techniques that model reality implicitly; however, corresponding advances in explicit mathematical models have been noticeably lacking. We believe this dichotomy is rooted in the limitations of the current statistical tools, which struggle to make sense of the high dimensional generative processes that natural data seems to originate from. This paper proposes a new, distance based statistical technique which allows us to develop elegant mathematical models of such generative processes. Our model suggests that each semantic concept has an associated distinctive-shell which …

Bit-Flip Aware Data Structures For Phase Change Memory, Arockia David Roy Kulandai

Dissertations (1934 -)

Big, non-volatile, byte-addressable, low-cost, and fast non-volatile memories like Phase Change Memory are appearing in the marketplace. They have the capability to unify both memory and storage and allow us to rethink the present memory hierarchy. An important draw-back to Phase Change Memory is limited write-endurance. In addition, Phase Change Memory shares with other Non-Volatile Random Access Memories an asym- metry in the energy costs of writes and reads. Best use of Non-Volatile Random Access Memories limits the number of times a Non-Volatile Random Access Memory cell changes contents, called a bit-flip. While the future of main memory is still …

Designing A Patient-Centered Clinical Workflow To Assess Cyberbully Experiences Of Youths In The U.S. Healthcare System, Fayika Farhat Nova

Dissertations (1934 -)

Cyberbullying or online harassment is often defined as when someone repeatedly and intentionally harasses, mistreats, or makes fun of others aiming to scare, anger or shame them using electronic devices [296]. Youths experiencing cyberbullying report higher levels of anxiety and depression, mental distress, suicide thoughts, and substance abuse than their non-bullied peers [360, 605, 261, 354]. Even though bullying is associated with significant health problems, to date, very little youth anti-bullying efforts are initiated and directed in clinical settings. There is presently no standardized procedure or workflow across health systems for systematically assessing cyberbullying or other equally dangerous online activities …

Combining Security And Reliability Of Critical Infrastructures: The Concept Of Securability, Leandros Maglaras, Helge Janicke, Mohamed Amine Ferrag

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The digital revolution has made people more dependent on ICT technology to perform everyday tasks, whether at home or at work. The systems that support critical aspects of this smart way of living are characterized as critical, and the security level of such systems is higher as compared to others. The definition of the criticality of a system is a rather difficult exercise, and for that reason, we have seen novel cybersecurity regulations to introduce the idea of digital managed services, which include security monitoring, managed network services, or the outsourcing of business processes that are are critical to the …

Role Of Imaging And Ai In The Evaluation Of Covid-19 Infection: A Comprehensive Survey, Mayada Elgendy, Hossam Magdy Balaha, Mohamed Shehata, Ahmed Alksas, Mahitab Ghoneim, Fatma Sherif, Ali Mahmoud, Ahmed Elgarayhi, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Sallah, Mohammed Ghazal, Ayman El-Baz

All Works

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness that started and rapidly became the pandemic of the century, as the number of people infected with it globally exceeded 253.4 million. Since the beginning of the pandemic of COVID-19, over two years have passed. During this hard period, several defies have been coped by the scientific society to know this novel disease, evaluate it, and treat affected patients. All these efforts are done to push back the spread of the virus. This article provides a comprehensive review to learn about the COVID-19 virus and its entry mechanism, its main repercussions on …

Anomaly Detection In Cybersecurity Datasets Via Cooperative Co-Evolution-Based Feature Selection, Bazlur A. N. M. Rashid, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Leslie F. Sikos, Paul Haskell-Dowland

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Anomaly detection from Big Cybersecurity Datasets is very important; however, this is a very challenging and computationally expensive task. Feature selection (FS) is an approach to remove irrelevant and redundant features and select a subset of features, which can improve the machine learning algorithms’ performance. In fact, FS is an effective preprocessing step of anomaly detection techniques. This article’s main objective is to improve and quantify the accuracy and scalability of both supervised and unsupervised anomaly detection techniques. In this effort, a novel anomaly detection approach using FS, called Anomaly Detection Using Feature Selection (ADUFS), has been introduced. Experimental analysis …

Small Molecule Modulation Of Microbiota: A Systems Pharmacology Perspective, Qiao Liu, Bohyun Lee, Lei Xie

Publications and Research

Background

Microbes are associated with many human diseases and influence drug efficacy. Small-molecule drugs may revolutionize biomedicine by fine-tuning the microbiota on the basis of individual patient microbiome signatures. However, emerging endeavors in small-molecule microbiome drug discovery continue to follow a conventional “one-drug-one-target-one-disease” process. A systematic pharmacology approach that would suppress multiple interacting pathogenic species in the microbiome, could offer an attractive alternative solution.

Results

We construct a disease-centric signed microbe–microbe interaction network using curated microbe metabolite information and their effects on host. We develop a Signed Random Walk with Restart algorithm for the accurate prediction of effect of microbes …

Detecting High-Risk Factors And Early Diagnosis Of Diabetes Using Machine Learning Methods, Zahid Ullah, Farrukh Saleem, Mona Jamjoom, Bahjat Fakieh, Faris Kateb, Abdullah Marish Ali, Babar Shah

All Works

Diabetes is a chronic disease that can cause several forms of chronic damage to the human body, including heart problems, kidney failure, depression, eye damage, and nerve damage. There are several risk factors involved in causing this disease, with some of the most common being obesity, age, insulin resistance, and hypertension. Therefore, early detection of these risk factors is vital in helping patients reverse diabetes from the early stage to live healthy lives. Machine learning (ML) is a useful tool that can easily detect diabetes from several risk factors and, based on the findings, provide a decision-based model that can …

Toward Mental Effort Measurement Using Electrodermal Activity Features, William Romine, Noah Schroeder, Tanvi Banerjee, Josephine Graft

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

The ability to monitor mental effort during a task using a wearable sensor may improve productivity for both work and study. The use of the electrodermal activity (EDA) signal for tracking mental effort is an emerging area of research. Through analysis of over 92 h of data collected with the Empatica E4 on a single participant across 91 different activities, we report on the efficacy of using EDA features getting at signal intensity, signal dispersion, and peak intensity for prediction of the participant's self-reported mental effort. We implemented the logistic regression algorithm as an interpretable machine learning approach and found …

Improving Pneumonia Classification And Lesion Detection Using Spatial Attention Superposition And Multilayer Feature Fusion, Kang Li, Fengbo Zheng, Panpan Wu, Qiuyuan Wang, Gongbo Liang, Lifen Jiang

Computer Science Faculty Publications (Archived)

Pneumonia is a severe inflammation of the lung that could cause serious complications. Chest X-rays (CXRs) are commonly used to make a diagnosis of pneumonia. In this paper, we propose a deep-learning-based method with spatial attention superposition (SAS) and multilayer feature fusion (MFF) to facilitate pneumonia diagnosis based on CXRs. Specifically, an SAS module, which takes advantage of the channel and spatial attention mechanisms, was designed to identify intrinsic imaging features of pneumonia-related lesions and their locations, and an MFF module was designed to harmonize disparate features from different channels and emphasize important information. These two modules were concatenated to …

Applying Expansive Framing To An Integrated Mathematics-Computer Science Unit, Kimberly Evagelatos Beck, Jessica F. Shumway

Publications

In this research report for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2022 Research Conference, we discuss the theory of Expansive Framing and its application to an interdisciplinary mathematics-computer science curricular unit.

Stochastic Trajectory Prediction Via Motion Indeterminacy Diffusion, Tianpei Gu, Guangyi Chen, Junlong Li, Chunze Lin, Yongming Rao, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Human behavior has the nature of indeterminacy, which requires the pedestrian trajectory prediction system to model the multi-modality of future motion states. Unlike existing stochastic trajectory prediction methods which usually use a latent variable to represent multi-modality, we explicitly simulate the process of human motion variation from indeterminate to determinate. In this paper, we present a new framework to formulate the trajectory prediction task as a reverse process of motion indeterminacy diffusion (MID), in which we progressively discard indeterminacy from all the walkable areas until reaching the desired trajectory. This process is learned with a parameterized Markov chain conditioned by …

Ubnormal: New Benchmark For Supervised Open-Set Video Anomaly Detection, Andra Acsintoae, Andrei Florescu, Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu, Tudor Mare, Paul Sumedrea, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Mubarak Shah

Computer Vision Faculty Publications

Detecting abnormal events in video is commonly framed as a one-class classification task, where training videos contain only normal events, while test videos encompass both normal and abnormal events. In this scenario, anomaly detection is an open-set problem. However, some studies assimilate anomaly detection to action recognition. This is a closed-set scenario that fails to test the capability of systems at detecting new anomaly types. To this end, we propose UBnormal, a new supervised open-set benchmark composed of multiple virtual scenes for video anomaly detection. Unlike existing data sets, we introduce abnormal events annotated at the pixel level at training …

Pstr: End-To-End One-Step Person Search With Transformers, Jiale Cao, Pang Yanwei, Rao Anwer, Hisham Cholakkal, Jin Xie, Mubarak Shah, Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Computer Vision Faculty Publications

We propose a novel one-step transformer-based person search framework, PSTR, that jointly performs person detection and re-identification (re-id) in a single architecture. PSTR comprises a person search-specialized (PSS) module that contains a detection encoder-decoder for person detection along with a discriminative re-id decoder for person re-id. The discriminative re-id decoder utilizes a multi-level supervision scheme with a shared decoder for discriminative re-id feature learning and also comprises a part attention block to encode relationship between different parts of a person. We further introduce a simple multi-scale scheme to support re-id across person instances at different scales. PSTR jointly achieves the …

Maximum Spatial Perturbation Consistency For Unpaired Image-To-Image Translation, Yanwu Xu, Shaoan Xie, Wenhao Wu, Kun Zhang, Mingming Gong, Kayhan Batmanghelich

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Unpaired image-to-image translation (I2I) is an ill-posed problem, as an infinite number of translation functions can map the source domain distribution to the target distribution. Therefore, much effort has been put into designing suitable constraints, e.g., cycle consistency (CycleGAN), geometry consistency (GCGAN), and contrastive learning-based constraints (CUTGAN), that help better pose the problem. However, these well-known constraints have limitations: (1) they are either too restrictive or too weak for specific I2I tasks; (2) these methods result in content distortion when there is a significant spatial variation between the source and target domains. This paper proposes a universal regularization technique called …

Orthogonal Point Location And Rectangle Stabbing Queries In 3-D, Timothy M. Chan, Yakov Nekrich, Saladi Rahul, Konstantinos Tsakalidis

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

In this work, we present a collection of new results on two fundamental problems in geometric data structures: orthogonal point location and rectangle stabbing.• Orthogonal point location. We give the first linear-space data structure that sup- ports 3-d point location queries on n disjoint axis-aligned boxes with optimal O (log") query time in the (arithmetic) pointer machine model. This improves the previous 0 (\ogi/2 n^ bound of Rahul \SODA 201o|. We similarly obtain the first linear-space data structure in the I/O model with optimal query cost, and also the first linear-space data structure in the word HAM model with sub-logarithmic …

Dynamic Return Relationships In The Market For Cryptocurrency: A Var Approach, Julian Gouffray

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

This paper examines how the Bitcoin-altcoin return relationship has evolved in periods between 2015 and 2020. To understand this relation, we observe data on the cryptocurrency Bitcoin and prominent altcoins Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, Stellar, and Monero, which collectively represent over 90% of the market throughout the observed period. We employ a vector autoregressive model (VAR) to produce forecast error variance decompositions, orthogonal impulse response functions, and Granger-causality tests. We find evidence that Bitcoin return variation has increasingly explained altcoin returns and that market inefficiency increased between 2017 and 2020, as shown by increased Granger causality between Bitcoin and altcoins. These …

Parallel Simulation System Of Equipment Precision Maintenance Based On Cloud-Edge-End Architecture, Yanqiang Di, Ting Li, Shaochong Feng, Qiongyao Liu, Jianhong Lü, Zhijia Chen, Yang Zhang, Pengfei Cao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the demands of equipment precision maintenance, based on the previous research results of equipment parallel simulation, the algorithm of equipment remaining useful life (RUL)prediction is optimized and a parallel simulation system for equipment precision maintenance with cloud-edge-end architecture is designed. At the equipment end, the system collects equipment status data and preprocesses it with edge devices. At the cloud end, based on simulation model, in parallel with the equipment entity, the system dynamically predicts the RUL of equipment. The prediction results are applied to the formulation and deduction of equipment maintenance plans to support the equipment …

Unmanned Air Vehicles Launching Aircraft Combat System And Key Technologies For Penetrating Counterair, Minghao Li, Wenhao Bi, An Zhang, Wenxuan Sun

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Penetrating counterair is an important countermeasure to the anti-access/area denial environment. Under this operational requirement, the unmanned air vehicles launching aircraft (UAVLA)has received much attention due to the advantages of load quantity and variety, operational range and duration, and development time and cost. Based on the review of the concept development and supporting research related to the UAVLA, the top-level concepts of operations such as the component systems,operational process, operational events tracking, and information interaction of the UAVLA combat system (UAVLACS) are designed. The key technologies of the system are prospected from four aspects:intelligent cognition of battlefield situation under …

Opnet Based Simulation Of Hybrid Tdma Protocol For Helicopters Datalink, Yanfang Fu, Nan Zhang, Jianing Wei, Shaochun Qu, Ying Lu, Chang Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: For the current time slot allocation problem of the data link, an improved hybrid time slot allocation protocol based on grey relational analysis is proposed and implemented. Through the aggregation of throughput, delay and load of current message buffer by grey relational analysis, the comprehensive evaluation index is obtained, and the time slot is allocated dynamically. The fixed time slot allocation is also adopted to ensure that at least one time slot is available for nodes in the network.Simulation results show that compared with the fixed TDMA(time division multiple access) protocol and the P-TDMA(priority-TDMA) protocol, the proposed protocol …

Research On Opponent Modeling Framework For Multi-Agent Game Confrontation, Junren Luo, Wanpeng Zhang, Weilin Yuan, Zhenzhen Hu, Shaofei Chen, Jing Chen

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: As the key technology of multi-agent game confrontation, opponent modeling is a typical cognitive modeling method of agent's behavior. Several typical models of multi-agent game confrontation,non-stationary problems, and meta-game theory are introduced; opponent modeling methods that concludes the frontier theory of opponent modeling are summarized, and the applications and challenges are analyzed. Based on the theory of meta-game, a general opponent modeling framework is constructed with three modules: opponent policy recognition and generation, opponent policy space reconstruction,and opponent exploitation. It is expected to provide theoretical and methodological reference for opponent modeling in multi-agent game confrontation.

Siamese Object Tracking Algorithm Combined With The Intersection Over Union Loss, Wei Zhou, Yuxiang Liu, Guangping Liao, Xin Ma

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To improve the accuracy of the object bounding box regression prediction of the SiamRPN,solve the problem of low discrimination of positive samples in classification prediction and the lack of correlation between regression prediction and classification prediction, an improved object tracking algorithm of SiamRPN which combined with IoU(intersection over union) loss is proposed. A joint optimization module of IoU-smooth L1 is designed to optimize the IoU loss of the best positive sample and the smooth L1 loss of other positive samples jointly. According to the regression prediction results, the weighted classification prediction is performed on the positive samples with the …

Relative-Residual-Based Dynamic Schedule For Decoding Of Ldpc Codes, Fatang Chen, Hebin Li, Zhihao Zhang, Zhiqiang Mei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to solve the problems of the oscillation phenomenon and greedy characteristics in the dynamic scheduling decoding algorithm for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, the relative-residual-based dynamic schedule (RRB-BP) algorithm is proposed based on variable-to-check residual belief propagation (VC-RBP) algorithm. The variable nodes are grouped, then the relative residual value of the message passed by the variable nodes to the check node is taken as a reference, and the node with the largest relative residual value is updated in priority to accelerate the decoding convergence speed. For variable nodes oscillating in the decoding process, the posterior LLR (log likelihood …

Energy-Efficient Scheduling Of Multi-Objective Flexible Job Shop Considering Interval Processing Time, Hongliang Zhang, Renman Ding, Gongjie Xu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Based on the comprehensive consideration of economic indicators and environmental factors, the energy-efficient scheduling problem of multi-objective flexible job shop with uncertain processing time is studied. The interval number is used to describe uncertain processing time of the workpiece, and the optimization model for energy-efficient problem of interval flexible job shop scheduling is established to minimize the maximum interval completion time and total energy consumption. According to the domination relation of interval possibility degree, an effective interval multi-objective evolutionary algorithm is designed. The simulation experiments of the interval multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, SPEA-II and NSGA-II are carried out through 15 …

Particle Swarm Algorithm For Solving Emergency Material Dispatch Considering Urgency, Li Zhang, Huizhen Zhang, Dong Liu, Yuxin Lu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In the early stage of major public health events, medical supplies are rapidly consumed and severely insufficient. In order to distribute medical supplies in a reasonable and efficient manner, research on the distribution of emergency medical materials is carried out. The entropy method is introduced to determine the urgency of demand points, thus could give priority to the demand points with high urgency and make the distribution routing as short as possible on that basis to realize the construction of a split delivery and multi-objective emergency medical materials scheduling model based on different urgency of demand points. Meanwhile the …

Design Of Optical Compound Eye Simulation Software For Small Aircraft Applications, Qiming Qi, Ruigang Fu, Ping Wang, Min Wang, Hongqi Fan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Optical compound eye has the advantages of large field of view, multiple viewing angles and high resolution. With another advantage that it can conformal combine with small aircraft, optical compound eye has application value in reconnaissance and surveillance, target detection, image navigation and other aspects. An optical compound eye simulation software for small aircraft is designed for the current situation of long development period of optical compound eye design and high cost of flight test in practical applications. The software integrates compound eye imaging, aircraft simulation and data management, and each functional module is extensible. The simulation results show …

Mesoscopic Modeling And Simulation Of Mixed Traffic Flow Of Buses And Vehicles, Yiting Zhu, Yun Yan, Zhaocheng He

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that the existing mesoscopic simulation models only convert buses into several standard vehicles and ignore the movement difference between buses and vehicles, a mesoscopic simulation model of mixed traffic flow is proposed. In the process of road driving, on the one aspect, we consider the feature that bus speed is usually lower than vehicle speed, and correspondingly establish the reduction function of bus speed; on the other aspect, we consider the influences of bus-station queue overflow on the adjacent lanes, and correspondingly construct the lane-based speed model of mixed flow.Moreover, we use the …

Electrical Resistance Tomography And Flow Pattern Identification Method Based On Deep Residual Neural Network, Weiguo Tong, Shichao Zeng, Lifeng Zhang, Zhe Hou, Jiayue Guo

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the low accuracy of inverse problem imaging and flow pattern recognition in electrical resistance tomography (ERT), a two-phase flow electrical resistance tomography and flow pattern recognition method based on the deep residual neural network is proposed. The finite element method is used to model the ERT forward problem to construct the "boundary voltage-conductivity distribution-flow pattern category" dataset of various gas-liquid two-phase flow distributions. The residual neural network for ERT image reconstruction and flow pattern identification of gas-liquid two-phase flow is built and trained. The two outputs of the residual neural network are processed respectively to obtain …