最近的反向散射通信技术使超低功耗无线设备使得在没有电池的情况下操作，同时直接与未修饰的商品无线设备互操作。商品设备在提供未调制的载体时，可以在从其环境中收集能量以执行感测，计算和通信任务的同时需要进行通信的未调制载波。未经调制载波的最佳提供限制了网络的大小，因为它是NP硬组合优化问题。因此，以前的作品要么完全忽略载体优化，要么避免次优启发式，浪费宝贵的能量和光谱资源。我们展示了Deepgantt，这是一种与无线商品互通设备的无电池设备的深度学习调度程序。 Deepgantt利用图形神经网络来克服这个问题固有的变量输入和输出大小挑战。我们培养我们的深度学习调度程序，具有从约束优化求解器获得的相对较小的尺寸的最佳时间表。 Deepgantt不仅优于精心制作的启发式解决方案，而且还在训练有素的问题大小的最佳调度器的3％内执行。最后，DeepGantt推广了超过用于训练的最大值的问题超过四倍，因此打破了最佳调度器的可扩展性限制，并为更有效的反向散射网络铺平道路。

Video segmentation consists of a frame-by-frame selection process of meaningful areas related to foreground moving objects. Some applications include traffic monitoring, human tracking, action recognition, efficient video surveillance, and anomaly detection. In these applications, it is not rare to face challenges such as abrupt changes in weather conditions, illumination issues, shadows, subtle dynamic background motions, and also camouflage effects. In this work, we address such shortcomings by proposing a novel deep learning video segmentation approach that incorporates residual information into the foreground detection learning process. The main goal is to provide a method capable of generating an accurate foreground detection given a grayscale video. Experiments conducted on the Change Detection 2014 and on the private dataset PetrobrasROUTES from Petrobras support the effectiveness of the proposed approach concerning some state-of-the-art video segmentation techniques, with overall F-measures of $\mathbf{0.9535}$ and $\mathbf{0.9636}$ in the Change Detection 2014 and PetrobrasROUTES datasets, respectively. Such a result places the proposed technique amongst the top 3 state-of-the-art video segmentation methods, besides comprising approximately seven times less parameters than its top one counterpart.

Scene change detection is an image processing problem related to partitioning pixels of a digital image into foreground and background regions. Mostly, visual knowledge-based computer intelligent systems, like traffic monitoring, video surveillance, and anomaly detection, need to use change detection techniques. Amongst the most prominent detection methods, there are the learning-based ones, which besides sharing similar training and testing protocols, differ from each other in terms of their architecture design strategies. Such architecture design directly impacts on the quality of the detection results, and also in the device resources capacity, like memory. In this work, we propose a novel Multiscale Cascade Residual Convolutional Neural Network that integrates multiscale processing strategy through a Residual Processing Module, with a Segmentation Convolutional Neural Network. Experiments conducted on two different datasets support the effectiveness of the proposed approach, achieving average overall $\boldsymbol{F\text{-}measure}$ results of $\boldsymbol{0.9622}$ and $\boldsymbol{0.9664}$ over Change Detection 2014 and PetrobrasROUTES datasets respectively, besides comprising approximately eight times fewer parameters. Such obtained results place the proposed technique amongst the top four state-of-the-art scene change detection methods.

Research on remote sensing image classification significantly impacts essential human routine tasks such as urban planning and agriculture. Nowadays, the rapid advance in technology and the availability of many high-quality remote sensing images create a demand for reliable automation methods. The current paper proposes two novel deep learning-based architectures for image classification purposes, i.e., the Discriminant Deep Image Prior Network and the Discriminant Deep Image Prior Network+, which combine Deep Image Prior and Triplet Networks learning strategies. Experiments conducted over three well-known public remote sensing image datasets achieved state-of-the-art results, evidencing the effectiveness of using deep image priors for remote sensing image classification.

The evolution of wireless communications into 6G and beyond is expected to rely on new machine learning (ML)-based capabilities. These can enable proactive decisions and actions from wireless-network components to sustain quality-of-service (QoS) and user experience. Moreover, new use cases in the area of vehicular and industrial communications will emerge. Specifically in the area of vehicle communication, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) schemes will benefit strongly from such advances. With this in mind, we have conducted a detailed measurement campaign with the purpose of enabling a plethora of diverse ML-based studies. The resulting datasets offer GPS-located wireless measurements across diverse urban environments for both cellular (with two different operators) and sidelink radio access technologies, thus enabling a variety of different studies towards V2X. The datasets are labeled and sampled with a high time resolution. Furthermore, we make the data publicly available with all the necessary information to support the on-boarding of new researchers. We provide an initial analysis of the data showing some of the challenges that ML needs to overcome and the features that ML can leverage, as well as some hints at potential research studies.

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

The horseshoe prior is known to possess many desirable properties for Bayesian estimation of sparse parameter vectors, yet its density function lacks an analytic form. As such, it is challenging to find a closed-form solution for the posterior mode. Conventional horseshoe estimators use the posterior mean to estimate the parameters, but these estimates are not sparse. We propose a novel expectation-maximisation (EM) procedure for computing the MAP estimates of the parameters in the case of the standard linear model. A particular strength of our approach is that the M-step depends only on the form of the prior and it is independent of the form of the likelihood. We introduce several simple modifications of this EM procedure that allow for straightforward extension to generalised linear models. In experiments performed on simulated and real data, our approach performs comparable, or superior to, state-of-the-art sparse estimation methods in terms of statistical performance and computational cost.

人类机器人相互作用（HRI）对于在日常生活中广泛使用机器人至关重要。机器人最终将能够通过有效的社会互动来履行人类文明的各种职责。创建直接且易于理解的界面，以与机器人开始在个人工作区中扩散时与机器人互动至关重要。通常，与模拟机器人的交互显示在屏幕上。虚拟现实（VR）是一个更具吸引力的替代方法，它为视觉提示提供了更像现实世界中看到的线索。在这项研究中，我们介绍了Jubileo，这是一种机器人的动画面孔，并使用人类机器人社会互动领域的各种研究和应用开发工具。Jubileo Project不仅提供功能齐全的开源物理机器人。它还提供了一个全面的框架，可以通过VR接口进行操作，从而为HRI应用程序测试带来沉浸式环境，并明显更好地部署速度。

我们提出了Zeroeggs，这是一个神经网络框架，用于语音驱动的手势生成，以零拍出样式控制。这意味着即使在训练过程中看不见的运动样式，也只能通过一个简短的运动剪辑来控制样式。我们的模型使用一个变性框架来学习样式嵌入，从而可以通过潜在的空间操纵或样式嵌入方式的混合和缩放来修改样式。我们框架的概率性质进一步使给定输入相同的各种输出的产生，以解决手势运动的随机性质。在一系列实验中，我们首先证明了模型对新的扬声器和样式的灵活性和概括性。然后，在一项用户研究中，我们表明我们的模型在运动，语音适当性和风格刻画方面的自然性，适当性和刻画的表现优于先前的最先进技术。最后，我们释放了包括手指在内的全身手势运动的高质量数据集，语音跨越了19种不同的样式。

已经开发了各种方法来结合多组结果的推理，以在集合和共识聚类文献中进行无监督的聚类。从几个候选聚类模型中的一个“最佳”模型报告结果的方法通常忽略了由模型选择产生的不确定性，并且导致对所选择的特定模型和参数敏感的推论，以及制作的假设，尤其是在小样本中所做的假设。尺寸或小簇尺寸。贝叶斯模型平均（BMA）是一种在多种模型中结合结果的流行方法，这些模型在这种情况下提供了一些有吸引力的好处，包括对组合集群结构的概率解释和基于模型的不确定性的量化。在这项工作中，我们介绍了ClusterBMA，该方法可以通过多种无监督聚类算法进行加权模型平均。我们将聚类内部验证标准的组合用作后验模型概率的新近似值，以加权每个模型的结果。从代表跨模型的聚类溶液的加权平均值的组合后相似性矩阵，我们应用对称的单纯形矩阵分解来计算最终的概率群集分配。此方法在随附的R软件包中实现。我们通过案例研究探索这种方法的性能，该案例研究旨在根据脑电图（EEG）数据识别个体的概率簇。我们还使用仿真数据集探索所提出的技术识别稳健的集成簇具有不同级别的集成簇，并在子组之间的分离水平变化，并且模型之间的簇数量变化。