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Young Romans: Status, Dress, And Gender, Mary Harlow, Lena Larsson Lovén

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

The demographics of the Roman world suggest that it was a world full of children. Demographers argue that in order simply to maintain population levels in a period where life expectancy was very short by modern standards, and infant mortality high, a woman should, on average, have six children, on the assumption that not all would live to adulthood. Despite much research in the last fifty years, children still remain partly invisible in the Roman world. This is primarily because they leave little evidence produced by themselves and are seen through the prism of adult eyes. Inevitably, given the nature …

Narrative And Material Tools Of Resistance: Mobilizing Textile Crafts, Heritage, And Fashion In The Context Of The Invasion Of Ukraine (2022–2023), Magali-An Berthon, Sophia Hayda, Tetiana Krupa, Yuliia Lazorenko, Marie-Louise Nosch

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

In 2022–2024, textile and fashion scholars came together to write an anthology sharing a new vision of European history as seen through textiles, in the COST Action EuroWeb. During this period, the continent was still dealing with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and was then faced with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Contemporary European history will be markedly defined by the ongoing war in Ukraine. One remarkable aspect of this conflict is the way textiles and dress appear daily in a variety of media outlets, mobilized as visual and semiotic means to communicate issues of war …

A Sensory Perspective On High-Ranked Women’S Dress In The 8th To 4th Century Bc In The Mediterranean And Central Europe, Karina Grömer, Susanna Harris, Audrey Gouy, Cecilie Brøns

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

In the late 20th century, the study of western science was dominated by a philosophical approach to evidence as text and meaning. In archaeology, material culture was treated like text, to be read through systems of signs, symbols, and indices put together in syntax. For studies of dress, this was influential in understanding dress as a cognitive system compiled to create identities and meaning. In this approach, textiles, fastenings, hairstyles, and gestures are presented as signs and symbols used to form a statement about identity, to be read by others. There was a focus on the visuality of dress and …

Assignment: Forming Questions, Talha Issevenler

Open Educational Resources

A question development assignment that aims to make space for practicing fo developing critical reading and writing skills in engaging social scientific, philosophic and humanities course material.

Introductory Sociology, Talha Issevenler

Open Educational Resources

A syllabus for "Introductory Sociology" that familiarizes students with basic sociological concepts such as norms, institutions, class, and power with interpretative exercises designed for students to develop ability to apply sociological analysis to particular contexts.

Survival Strategies: Human Adaptation To Environmental Change, Julie Lozano

Open Educational Resources

This assignment explores human adaptation to environmental change by examining genetic, physiological, and cultural responses in various populations. Through case studies from geographically diverse regions, the research highlights how genetic adaptations such as metabolic changes, physiological traits like thermoregulation, and cultural practices involving diet and shelter have contributed to human survival in challenging ecosystems. The study compares these adaptations across different populations, analyzing the interplay between environment and evolutionary traits.

Digital Literacy Activities, Sharell Walker

Publications and Research

In an increasingly technological-focused environment, it is paramount that library instructors infuse digital literacy skills into their teaching. Librarians as information professionals are in a prime position to impart digital literacy skills into patrons. This not only creates a more exciting lesson plan but also has the potential to teach students necessary digital literacy skills that are transferable beyond their schoolwork. In this chapter, the author examines the position of digital literacy in instruction and as a way to build employable skills. Examples of digital literacy activities’ that can be incorporated into information literacy instruction sessions no matter the length …

Trans And Gender Diverse Inclusion In Academic Library Hiring, Keahi K. Adolpho, Stephen G. Krueger, Luke Sutherland, Adrian Williams

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

We do not know how many trans and gender diverse people work in libraries in the United States. Like the US Census, the American Library Association’s demographic survey of its members (which is by no means a complete or accurate representation of the profession) asks if respondents are male or female (Rosa & Henke, 2017). In addition to erasing anybody who is not one of these two things, this question does not provide information on whether respondents are trans or gender diverse. And yet, we are here: all four of the authors of this chapter are trans people who work …

Burning Fear, Amy Dorie

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Climate change is leading to more intense and devastating wildfires that lead to tragic loss of life and property (Cal Fire, 2018; Sinco et al., 2023) and disturbing environmental impacts (OECD, 2023). The purpose of this textile design was to create an activist design that communicates the fear and anxiety felt by those impacted by wildfires. First-hand accounts of those experiencing wildfires were researched as inspiration for the textile design. Based on the accounts, a selection of wildfire-related images were cropped in irregular shapes, placed around the canvas, and blended evoking a sense of chaos and devastation. An image of …

Caring Cloth Praxis: Ethics Of Loss, Practices Of Remembering, Suzanna James

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This research, in continual development as a part of early PhD study, is currently entitled ‘Ethics of Loss, Practices of Remembering’ and locates itself within the field of cultural sustainability. It is foregrounded by my MA thesis entitled ‘Caring Cloth’ and works in response to the words of Louise Bourgeois: ‘the needle is used to repair damage, its claim to forgiveness.’ My own socially and environmentally regenerative textiles practice considers the way in which personal practices of remembering can be developed in response to cultural sustainability.

This textiles practice develops explorative visual textile art and social textile practice research which …

23 Extinct Redwork Quilt Project: Repairing Relationships With Our More-Than-Human Kin, Stitch By Stich, Heather Kerley

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In 2021, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service proposed 23 species for delisting from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction. I would like to present my redwork quilt, Mourning Lost Kin (23 Extinct), which honors each of these species. I plan to share my process from researching and sketching each species to the embroidering of each block and the over-all construction of the quilt. But most importantly, I would love to share the stories of these species, the layers of meaning in this quilt, and the many questions it raised for me over the course of two years. …

Public Patriotism, Silent Dissent: Women And The Making Of Senninbari In Wartime Japan, Mariko Nagai

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

During the early years of the so-called “Fifteen Year War” (1931–1945), Japanese women and girls created senninbari when men received draft notices to serve. Often worn around soldiers’ waists underneath their uniforms, these sash-shaped talisman were embroidered with 1,000 red knots, each knot made by a woman. In a time when the Japanese government censored dissenting voices against its militaristic and nationalistic foreign and domestic policies, this government-encouraged gesture of stitching senninbari became one of the few ways in which women could voice their personal protests within patriarchal gender expressions (良妻賢母 “good wife, wise mother”). Senninbari’s design evolved with regional- …

Textile As Cultural Technology: The Evolution Of Robert Rauschenberg’S Jammers, 1975–6, Katya Oicherman

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Robert Rauschenberg suggested that any material has a “humanitarian reportage” or a history built into it, that opens art to the “strange and unpredictable” experience only comparable to everyday reality. Developing this idea, I will focus on the Jammers, a series of works with significant textile presence produced in 1975–76, and discuss how Rauschenberg’s relationship to textiles evolved from treating them as “materials” to recognizing them as cultural technologies. In 1975 he was on a fellowship in Ahmedabad, India, a period of intense experimentation.

Textiles were already a significant presence in his art, playing a subservient role of materials …

Textile Ways Of Thinking As A Trauma-Informed Design Tool To Research And Understand Communities, Smrti Ganesan, Nishanth Srikanth

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

There has been a shift in methodologies in the broader world of design. Today, co-design and participatory methods are a vital part of the modern designer's toolkit, and designers are finding new ways to interact with communities and design solutions that are more responsive to the actual needs of those communities.

Textile design has historically been a medium for expressing and processing traumatic experiences, reflecting individual and collective traumas in society. Textiles have also historically served not only as a form of artistic expression but also as a powerful tool in activism, particularly within feminist movements. Recent developments have seen …

Solidarity Dividend With Us Wool And Community Engagement To Address Socioeconomic Inequities, Helen X. Trejo, Angela Becerril

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

As a long-standing natural fiber, wool provides an opportunity for community engagement and reflexive practice. Our process involved sourcing wool from US sheep and wool farms in lower income areas and hands-on textile development, and intersectional reflection. Being at a Hispanic Serving Institution, informed approaches to engage with concepts, such as the “zerosum paradigm” and “Solidarity Dividend” based on Heather McGhee’s NY Times Best Selling book “The Sum of Us.” It explores how racism affects intergenerational wealth among minorities. The zero-sum paradigm is the idea that progress is a tradeoff; benefits to some is at an expense for others. The …

Lavenz, Valenz, Levenxë, Lavexha, Lavenzka: Woven Felted Blankets From The Korçë Region In Southeastern Albania, Alexis Zoto

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper will look at and document colors and patterns and motifs of woven and felted blankets from the Korçë region of southeastern Albania. Very little is published on these textiles. This paper will document the disappearing and under appreciated textile, and why are they no longer understood or valued. In Albania and in Albanian diaspora communities this textile has had different names in prewar, prewar Korçare dialect and now.

I will be drawing from information gathered interviewing parishioners who volunteered to share their heirlooms and information gathered from examining the textile(s). These heirlooms belong to members of multiple generations …

Pricing, Decarbonization, And Green New Deals, David M. Driesen, Michael A. Mehling

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

This Article evaluates an emerging literature claiming that carbon pricing (emissions trading or carbon taxes) has not performed very well and therefore cannot be the basis for the sort of transformative change now required to address the climate crisis. This is an important claim, as carbon pricing has been viewed as being at the heart of global efforts to address one of our most important contemporary problems.

We provide theoretical and empirical support for these critics’ claim that carbon pricing by itself cannot catalyze the technological transformation now required, and that other approaches have done and will likely do better. …

ปัญหาและอุปสรรคในการตรวจสอบสินค้าเพื่อคืนภาษีมูลค่าเพิ่มสำหรับนักท่องเที่ยว: กรณีศึกษาฝ่ายบริการผู้โดยสารที่ 3 สำนักงานศุลกากรท่าอากาศยานดอนเมือง, ณัฐกร โชติช่วย

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

สารนิพนธ์ฉบับนี้จัดทำขึ้นเพื่อศึกษาปัญหาและอุปสรรคที่เกิดขึ้นในกระบวนการตรวจสอบสินค้าเพื่อคืนภาษีมูลค่าเพิ่ม (VAT Refund) สำหรับนักท่องเที่ยว กรณีศึกษาฝ่ายบริการผู้โดยสารที่ 3 สำนักงานศุลกากรท่าอากาศยานดอนเมือง โดยเน้นวิเคราะห์ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลให้กระบวนการดังกล่าวเกิดความล่าช้า อันนำมาซึ่งข้อร้องเรียนต่อเจ้าหน้าที่ศุลกากร รวมถึงปัญหาที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการดำเนินงาน และแนวทางในการแก้ไขปัญหาเพื่อเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพในกระบวนการคืนภาษีมูลค่าเพิ่ม เพื่อการศึกษาที่ครอบคลุมและชัดเจนผู้เขียนได้แบ่งการศึกษาออกเป็น 3 ด้าน ได้แก่ ด้านการสื่อสาร ด้านกฎระเบียบ และด้านเทคโนโลยี งานวิจัยชิ้นนี้เป็นงานวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ (Qualitative Research) โดยเก็บข้อมูลผ่านการสัมภาษณ์แบบกึ่งโครงสร้าง (Semi-Structured Interview) กับผู้ให้ข้อมูลสำคัญ ซึ่งประกอบด้วยเจ้าหน้าที่ศุลกากรที่ปฏิบัติงาน ณ จุดบริการ VAT Refund หัวหน้าฝ่ายบริการผู้โดยสารที่ 3 และผู้อำนวยการฝ่ายบริการผู้โดยสาร สำนักงานศุลกากรท่าอากาศยานดอนเมือง รวมถึงนักท่องเที่ยวที่ใช้บริการ ผลการวิจัยพบว่าปัญหาและอุปสรรคที่สำคัญ ได้แก่ ความล่าช้าจากกระบวนการตรวจสอบเอกสารและสินค้าซึ่งเกิดจากการขาดการจัดเตรียมข้อมูลล่วงหน้าของผู้รับบริการ การประสานงานระหว่างหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องที่ยังไม่มีความสอดคล้องกัน ข้อกำหนดด้านกฎระเบียบที่ซับซ้อนและมีความเปลี่ยนแปลงบ่อยครั้ง รวมถึงการขาดการสื่อสารข้อมูลที่ถูกต้องและชัดเจนให้แก่นักท่องเที่ยว ส่งผลให้นักท่องเที่ยวมีความเข้าใจผิดเกี่ยวกับขั้นตอนและข้อกำหนดในการคืนภาษี

The Demand For Thai Language Skills In Thai-Chinese Economic And Trade Relations: A Case Study Of Yunnan Province, Yunheng Yuan

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study aims to analyze the demand for Thai language skills in economic and trade cooperation between Thailand and Yunnan Province, examine the current status of Thai language training programs in universities and colleges in Yunnan Province, and evaluate whether these programs adequately meet the demand for Thai language skills in the development of economic and trade cooperation. Through research methods like field observation, questionnaires, interviews, and document research, it was found that the economic and trade relations between Thailand and Yunnan Province continue to improve. Meanwhile, the demand for Thai language skills in Yunnan Province significantly increases. However, there …

แนวทางการพัฒนากรุงเทพมหานครสู่เมืองปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรมสำหรับผู้หญิง, ศิริธร สมสุวรรณ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเรื่อง “แนวทางการพัฒนากรุงเทพมหานครสู่เมืองปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรมสำหรับผู้หญิง”มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาปัญหาความปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรมสำหรับผู้หญิงในกรุงเทพมหานคร สาเหตุของปัญหาในการพัฒนากรุงเทพมหานครให้เป็นเมืองปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรมสำหรับผู้หญิง และแนวทางการพัฒนากรุงเทพมหานครสู่เมืองปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรมสำหรับผู้หญิง เป็นการวิจัยเชิงผสมผสานระหว่างการวิจัยเชิงปริมาณซึ่งใช้แบบสอบถามเป็นเครื่องมือวิจัย กลุ่มตัวอย่างคือผู้หญิงวัยทำงานที่อาศัยอยู่ในกรุงเทพมหานคร (อายุ 20 – 59 ปี) จำนวน 400 คน ร่วมกับการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพด้วยการสัมภาษณ์แบบเจาะลึกผู้ให้ข้อมูลสำคัญ 4 กลุ่ม ได้แก่ หน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการปฏิบัติงานด้านการพัฒนากรุงเทพมหานครสู่เมืองปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรมสำหรับผู้หญิง นักวิชาการและผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านเมืองปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรม องค์กรสาธารณะประโยชน์ด้านความปลอดภัยของผู้หญิง และผู้หญิงที่อาศัยอยู่ในกรุงเทพมหานคร รวม 13 คนผลการศึกษา พบว่า ผู้หญิงที่อาศัยอยู่ในกรุงเทพมหานครมีผู้เคยตกเป็นเหยื่ออาชญากรรมโดยตรง 3 ประเภท ได้แก่ อาชญากรรมทางเพศ อาชญากรรมต่อทรัพย์สิน และอาชญากรรมต่อชีวิตและร่างกาย ส่วนใหญ่มีการแจ้งความที่สถานีตำรวจ โดยสถานที่ที่พบอาชญากรรมมากที่สุด คือ ตรอก ซอย ถนน รองลงมาคือที่อยู่อาศัย และรถโดยสารสาธารณะ ส่วนใหญ่ได้รับแจ้งข่าวเหตุอาชญากรรมทาง Social media ซึ่งผู้หญิงต้องการให้แก้ไขปัญหาด้วยการติดตั้งกล้องวงจรปิดและไฟฟ้าส่องสว่างให้ครอบคลุมทุกพื้นที่ เพิ่มกำลังตำรวจในการตรวจตรา และแก้ไขกฎหมายให้มีบทลงโทษที่รุนแรง โดยสาเหตุของปัญหาในการพัฒนากรุงเทพมหานครให้เป็นเมืองปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรมสำหรับผู้หญิงเกิดจากอำนาจหน้าที่ของกรุงเทพมหานครมีจำกัด ศักยภาพและผู้ปฏิบัติไม่เพียงพอ การเติบโตของเมืองที่ส่งผลต่อการบริหารจัดการ การบูรณาการระหว่างหน่วยงานไม่เข้มแข็ง ประชาชนขาดความเชื่อมั่นในกระบวนการยุติธรรม สังคมขาดการสร้างความตระหนักรู้ถึงความปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรม นโยบายรัฐด้านการดูแลความปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรมสำหรับผู้หญิงไม่ชัดเจน และทัศนคติทางสังคมมองว่าผู้หญิงถูกล่วงละเมิดเป็นเรื่องน่าอาย โดยมีแนวทางการพัฒนากรุงเทพมหานครสู่เมืองปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรมสำหรับผู้หญิง 6 แนวทาง เรียกว่า “IT-4E” ประกอบด้วย การบูรณาการการทำงานร่วมกัน (Integration) การนำเทคโนโลยีมาสนับสนุนการพัฒนาเมืองให้ปลอดภัย (Technology) การบังคับใช้กฎหมายอย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ (Enforcement) การสร้างสภาพแวดล้อมที่ดีและปลอดภัย (Environment) การให้การศึกษาและความตระหนักรู้ด้านภัยอาชญากรรม (Education) และการมีส่วนร่วมของประชาชนและชุมชน (Engagement) ซึ่งจะช่วยให้การพัฒนากรุงเทพมหานครให้เป็นเมืองปลอดภัยจากอาชญากรรมสำหรับผู้หญิงประสบความสำเร็จ

A Symbolic Interactionism’S Perspective Of The Attack On The U.S. Capitol., Odeli Hernandez

Undergraduate Scholarship

This paper aims to draw the line between Symbolic Interactionism and how it ties into the political world. Symbolic Interactionism states that humans interpret and assign meanings to symbols through social interaction, thus influencing their behaviors and shaping their realities. It is said that symbolic interactionism could only be applied to micro levels of social interactions, and not to something as big and intricate as politics. This paper will focus on a stand-alone event, the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Numerous symbols were displayed before, during, and after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, each of …

The Midwest Feminist Papers: A Facsimile Edition 1980–1997. Part Iii (1991–1997), Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill

Zea E-Books Collection

Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill, compilers. The Midwest Feminist Papers: A Facsimile Edition 1980–1997, with prefaces and author indices by Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill. 3 volumes: Part III (1991–1997)

The Midwest Feminist Papers was a creative, group-generated initiative that gave voice to the scholarly questions, research interests, and social concerns of a growing cohort of Midwestern feminist sociology graduate students and their feminist faculty mentors during the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. They were active members of Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society, a regional expression of the larger national Sociologists for Women …

Senior Mental Health Clinicians’ Understanding Of Their Self-Efficacy While Providing Services At Community-Based Agencies, Rukiya Symister

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Many mental health clinicians strive to provide their clients with rehabilitative and psychotherapy services resulting in a client gaining stable income and housing. However, the role of a senior mental health clinician (SMHC) is not without its challenges of trying to balance their well-being while dealing with increased coworker turnover, demanding caseloads, and limited access to community resources to provide clients with getting their lives back on track, thereby impacting clinicians’ understanding of their self-efficacy. Much of the research on self-efficacy has focused on mental health clients, mental health graduate students, and mental health trainees, often leaving out the lived …

Sw 317 Class Handout, Ashley Rosener

Handouts

This handout highlights resources to find statistical information for class assignments.

An Examination Of Homo Naledi Early Juveniles Recovered From The Rising Star Cave System, South Africa, Juliet K. Brophy, Debra R. Bolter, Marina Elliott, John Hawks, Lee R. Berger

Faculty Publications

Background: Six Homo naledi early juveniles were recovered from U.W. 101 (Dinaledi Chamber), U.W. 102 (Lesedi Chamber), and U.W. 110 in the Rising Star cave system. Aim: This paper develops the information for the H. naledi early juvenile life stage, as defined by a combination of deciduous and permanent dentition, and the eruption of the first permanent molar. Subjects and methods: The growing number of young individuals recovered from the Rising Star cave system allows us to gain a better understanding of their variation, or lack thereof, and provides a basis to estimate broad ranges for age at death of …

Human–Environment Interactions At Ta’Ab Nuk Na, A Submerged Maya Salt Works Site In Belize, Cheryl M. Foster, Heather Mckillop, E. Cory Sills

Faculty Publications

Sea-level rise and settlement are investigated at Ta’ab Nuk Na, an ancient Maya salt works in Belize, by examining samples from wooden posts and marine sediment. The samples included Post 145 of Building B and the Nunavut beam, along with marine sediment columns cut from beside both wooden posts. The sediment columns were sampled at 2 cm intervals. Loss-on ignition confirmed the presence of organic material. Identifying the organic content involved removing nonorganic material from the sediment and sorting the organic material under magnification. This procedure established that most of the organic material was red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle). Red mangroves …

Flooded Mangrove Landscapes Hide Ancient Maya Coastal Sites In Belize, Heather I. Mckillop

Faculty Publications

Evidence of ancient Maya exploitation of salt, other marine resources, settlement, and sea trade is hidden in flooded mangrove landscapes on the cays, mainland, and in shallow offshore locations on the south coast of Belize. This article includes a discussion of the coastal economy from the Middle Preclassic through the Postclassic periods (600 B.C.–A.D. 1500). Data from sites discovered and excavated since 1982 in the coastal area of the Port Honduras and Paynes Creek National Park support a model of coastal reliance on marine resources and tree crops. The need for a regular supply of coastal salt to inland cities …

Dpal-Bert: A Faster And Lighter Question Answering Model, Lirong Yin, Lei Wang, Zhuohang Cai, Siyu Lu, Ruiyang Wang, Ahmed Alsanad, Salman A. Alqahtani, Xiaobing Chen, Zhengtong Yin, Xiaolu Li, Wenfeng Zheng

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Recent advancements in natural language processing have given rise to numerous pre-training language models in question-answering systems. However, with the constant evolution of algorithms, data, and computing power, the increasing size and complexity of these models have led to increased training costs and reduced efficiency. This study aims to minimize the inference time of such models while maintaining computational performance. It also proposes a novel Distillation model for PAL-BERT (DPAL-BERT), specifically, employs knowledge distillation, using the PAL-BERT model as the teacher model to train two student models: DPAL-BERT-Bi and DPAL-BERT-C. This research enhances the dataset through techniques such as masking, …

Convolution-Transformer For Image Feature Extraction, Lirong Yin, Lei Wang, Siyu Lu, Ruiyang Wang, Youshuai Yang, Bo Yang, Shan Liu, Ahmed Alsanad, Salman A. Alqahtani, Zhengtong Yin, Xiaolu Li, Xiaobing Chen, Wenfeng Zheng

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This study addresses the limitations of Transformer models in image feature extraction, particularly their lack of inductive bias for visual structures. Compared to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), the Transformers are more sensitive to different hyperparameters of optimizers, which leads to a lack of stability and slow convergence. To tackle these challenges, we propose the Convolution-based Efficient Transformer Image Feature Extraction Network (CEFormer) as an enhancement of the Transformer architecture. Our model incorporates E-Attention, depthwise separable convolution, and dilated convolution to introduce crucial inductive biases, such as translation invariance, locality, and scale invariance, into the Transformer framework. Additionally, we implement a …

Afbnet: A Lightweight Adaptive Feature Fusion Module For Super-Resolution Algorithms, Lirong Yin, Lei Wang, Siyu Lu, Ruiyang Wang, Haitao Ren, Ahmed Alsanad, Salman A. Alqahtani, Zhengtong Yin, Xiaolu Li, Wenfeng Zheng

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At present, super-resolution algorithms are employed to tackle the challenge of low image resolution, but it is difficult to extract differentiated feature details based on various inputs, resulting in poor generalization ability. Given this situation, this study first analyzes the features of some feature extraction modules of the current super-resolution algorithm and then proposes an adaptive feature fusion block (AFB) for feature extraction. This module mainly comprises dynamic convolution, attention mechanism, and pixel-based gating mechanism. Combined with dynamic convolution with scale information, the network can extract more differentiated feature information. The introduction of a channel spatial attention mechanism combined with …