Video moment localization has gradually become a hot research problem in video understanding. Despite much remarkable progress, there are still two limitations in the following aspects. Firstly, previous methods usually directly regarded the moment c...
With the rapid growth of real-world untrimmed videos, video moment localization (VML) has become a fundamental task in query-guided video understanding, aiming to identify the temporal moment that semantically matches a natural language query. Althou...
In this paper, a local-moment-driven robust reversible data hiding (LM-RRDH) scheme is proposed, which can provide security to hidden messages against unintentional modifications. The proposed LM-RRDH decomposes an image into LSB and MSB planes and t...
A local fixed pivot quadrature method of moments (LFPQMOM) is proposed for the solution of the population balance equation (PBE) for the aggregation and breakage process. First, the sectional representation for aggregation and breakage is presented....
[-10]For local homing navigation, an agent is supposed to return home based on the surrounding environmental information. According to the snapshot model, the home snapshot and the current view are compared to determine the homing direction. In this...
In this study, we propose a face recognition scheme using local Zernike moments (LZM), which can be used for both identification and verification. In this scheme, local patches around the landmarks are extracted from the complex components obtained b...
This paper proposes a novel perceptual image hashing scheme that robustly combines global structural features with local texture information for image authentication. The method starts with image normalization and Gaussian filtering to ensure scale i...
There are many image resizing techniques, which include scaling, scale-and-stretch, seam carving, and so on. They have their own advantages and are suitable for different application scenarios. Therefore, a universal detection of tampering by image r...
This paper first employs and develops an exact wave-based vibration analysis approach to investigate a finite Timoshenko beam carrying periodic two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) uncoupled force-moment type resonators. In the approach, vibrations are desc...
Automatic defect detection is an important and challenging issue in the tire industrial quality control. As is well known, the production quality of tire is directly related to the vehicle running safety and passenger security. However, it is difficu...
Various theoretical methods were applied and evaluated to determine the dipole moment of polar protic (methanol, ethanol) and aprotic (acetonitrile, pyridine, acetone) dipoles in the crystal phase. In mono-alcohols, the dipole moment is influenced by...
Denoising is the basis and premise of image processing and an important part of image preprocessing. Denoising can effectively improve image quality, which contributes to subsequent image processing such as image segmentation, feature extraction, and...
Beam-to-column connections govern both seismic performance and post-earthquake repairability of steel moment-resisting frames. Yet direct, apples-to-apples comparisons among welded, bolted, and repair-oriented replaceable-fuse moment connections are...
This work focuses on the effects of inclusion proximity on the elastic behavior of dilute matrix-inclusion composites. Rigid or soft monodisperse spherical inclusions are considered with moderate volume fractions. To conduct this study, Representativ...
This study introduces a continuous pedestrian-bridge design utilizing a circular tube girder and brackets for extended spans. The flexural performance evaluation in the negative moment region focuses on the support section of the continuous pedestria...
A detection and tracking algorithm for ferromagnetic objects based on a two stage Levenberg Marquardt Algorithm (LMA) is presented. The procedure is applied to localization and magnetic moment estimation of ferromagnetic objects moving in the vicinit...
Tailless unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) achieve high-agility maneuvers with flight control systems. The attainable moment set (AMS) provides critical theoretical foundations and constraints for their optimization. A computational method is proposed...
We studied the electron spin resonance (ESR) line width for localized moments within the framework of the Kondo lattice model. Only for a sufficiently small Kondo temperature can an ESR signal be observed for a Kondo impurity. On the other hand, for...
Many modern sensing systems rely on the accurate extraction of measurement data from digital images. The localization of edges and streaks in digital images is an important example of this type of measurement, with these techniques appearing in many...
In this paper, we propose a high accuracy fingerprint-based localization scheme for the Internet of Things (IoT). The proposed scheme employs mathematical concepts based on sparse representation and matrix completion theories. Specifically, the propo...
Recently, the task of validating the authenticity of images and the localization of tampered regions has been actively studied. In this paper, we go one step further by providing solid evidence for image manipulation. If a certain image is proved to...
This paper comprehensively investigates the moment-rotation relationship of straight mortise-tenon joints commonly used in Chinese antique timber buildings, focusing on analyzing the local compression mechanism at the tenon end-mortise and the tenon...
Content integrity of high-resolution remote sensing (HRRS) images is the premise of its usability. Existing HRRS image integrity authentication methods are mostly binary decision-making processes, which cannot provide a further interpretable informat...
A numerical investigation regarding ductility evaluation of steel buildings with moment resisting steel frames is conducted. Bending (µLϕ) and tension (µLδ) local ductilities as well as story (µS) and global ductilities are st...
We demonstrate a link between the concept of equitable partitions (EPs) of chemical graphs and the distribution of local properties of nanoparticles. Idealized magnetic nanoclusters of bcc iron were subjected to classical force-field modeling and DFT...
A mid-story pin system to avoid moment-resisting frame column failure during seismic action was proposed recently. The solution consists of a reinforced concrete (RC) pier protruding from the foundations, the steel column connected with the superstru...
This paper aims to investigate the response and local buckling of locally sharp-notched C2700 brass circular tubes (LSN C2700 brass circular tubes) under cyclic bending loads. The study considers four different notch orientations (0°, 30°, 60...
Hollow filament-wound glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) tubes are known for their high specific strength, corrosion resistance, and structural efficiency. The nonlinear flexural response of these structures is controlled by the interaction of mat...
Structural engineers often use deep columns in high seismic areas to reduce drifts, yet this somehow contradicts what is stated in some tests in the sense that even though deep columns may satisfy current seismic provisions, they can suffer premature...
Classical methods for manually solving internal forces in statically indeterminate structures mainly include force and displacement methods. While the force method involves substantial work when solving the internal forces of structures with higher d...
The increasing penetration of distributed generations (DGs) with intermittent and stochastic characteristics into current power distribution networks can lead to increased fault levels and degradation in network protection. As one of the key requirem...
We propose a local feature descriptor based on moment. Although conventional scale invariant feature transform (SIFT)-based algorithms generally use difference of Gaussian (DoG) for feature extraction, they remain sensitive to more complicated deform...
Robust Reversible Watermarking methods can achieve watermark extraction and lossless image restoration without being attacked. Existing Robust Reversible Watermarking methods based on image moments mainly achieve robustness against geometric attacks...
Many quantum systems admit an explicit analytic Fourier space expansion, besides the usual analytic Schrödinger configuration space representation. We argue that the use of weighted orthonormal polynomial expansions for the physical states (generated...
We report on the results of first principles calculations investigating the influences of Mn doping on the local moments and stacking fault energies (SFEs) in the Co
In the present paper an improved formulation devoted to the optimal design problem of a special moment resisting connection device for steel frames is proposed. This innovative device is called a Limited Resistance Plastic Device (LRPD) and it has be...
We propose a family of multi-moment methods with arbitrary orders of accuracy for the hyperbolic equation via the reconstructed interpolating differential operator (RDO) approach. Reconstruction up to arbitrary order can be achieved on a single cell...
We propose a new multi-moment numerical solver for hyperbolic conservation laws by using the alternating polynomial reconstruction approach. Unlike existing multi-moment schemes, our approach updates model variables by implementing two polynomial rec...
Video-moment location by query is a hot topic in video understanding. However, most of the existing methods ignore the importance of location efficiency in practical application scenarios; video and query sentences have to be fed into the network at...
For the Wiener, Ornstein–Uhlenbeck, and Feller processes, we study the transition probability density functions with an absorbing boundary in the zero state. Particular attention is paid to the proportional cases and to the time-homogeneous cas...
In order to present the relationship between ESR spectroscopy and isotope effects three levels are considered: (i) ESR spectroscopy is described on a general level up to the models for interpretation of the experimental spectra, which go beyond the u...
The identification of a person from gait images is generally sensitive to appearance changes, such as variations of clothes and belongings. One possibility to deal with this problem is to collect possible subjects’ appearance changes in a database. H...
This paper employs and develops the exact wave-based vibration analysis approach to investigate the propagation properties of a designed finite lightweight locally resonant (LR) beam with two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) force-moment-type resonators att...
In this work, we show magnetic-moment-induced metal–insulator transitions in ThMnXN (X = As, P) and elucidate some of the experimentally observed results obtained by Zhang et al. through a first principles density functional study. Our calculat...
This article is concerned with the localization of ferromagnetic objects on the basis of magnetovision measurement analysis. In the presented case, the concept of localization is understood as the indication of the x, y, and z coordinates of the magn...
A comparison on the influence of different moment magnitude pools on magnitude homogenization regressions was presented. The control moment magnitude pool is composed of earthquake records from GCMT. One version of expanding this base is to add earth...
Thermal relics with masses in the GeV to TeV range remain possible candidates for the Universe’s dark matter (DM). These neutral particles are often assumed to have vanishing electric and magnetic dipole moments so that they do not interact wit...
The intermetallic compound Fe
Special moment frames (SMFs) are widely used in seismic regions because of their capacity to dissipate energy through ductile behavior. In these structural systems, the beam–column connection and its panel zone play a fundamental role in force...
In bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells, external photoexcitation results in localized excitons in the polymer chain. After hot exciton formation and subsequent relaxation, the dipole moment drives the electron to partially transfer to extended or...
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