由于在道路驾驶实验的安全性，成本和实验控制问题，模拟器是驾驶的行为和交互研究的重要工具。最先进的模拟器使用昂贵的360度投影系统，以确保视觉保真度，完整的视野和浸入。然而，可以使用基于虚拟现实（VR）的可视界面可高效地实现类似的视觉保真度。我们展示了Dreyevr，这是一个基于开源VR的驾驶模拟器平台，设计了具有行为和互动研究优先事项的驾驶模拟器平台。 Dreyevr（读取“驱动程序”）是基于虚幻发动机和Carla自主车辆模拟器，并且具有眼睛跟踪等功能，功能驾驶头部显示器（HUD）和车辆音频，定制可定义路由和流量方案，实验测井，重播功能，以及与ROS的兼容性。我们描述了部署此模拟器的硬件低于$ 5000 $ USD，比市售的模拟器更便宜。最后，我们描述了如何利用Dreyevr在示例场景中回答交互研究问题。

Learning with noisy-labels has become an important research topic in computer vision where state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods explore: 1) prediction disagreement with co-teaching strategy that updates two models when they disagree on the prediction of training samples; and 2) sample selection to divide the training set into clean and noisy sets based on small training loss. However, the quick convergence of co-teaching models to select the same clean subsets combined with relatively fast overfitting of noisy labels may induce the wrong selection of noisy label samples as clean, leading to an inevitable confirmation bias that damages accuracy. In this paper, we introduce our noisy-label learning approach, called Asymmetric Co-teaching (AsyCo), which introduces novel prediction disagreement that produces more consistent divergent results of the co-teaching models, and a new sample selection approach that does not require small-loss assumption to enable a better robustness to confirmation bias than previous methods. More specifically, the new prediction disagreement is achieved with the use of different training strategies, where one model is trained with multi-class learning and the other with multi-label learning. Also, the new sample selection is based on multi-view consensus, which uses the label views from training labels and model predictions to divide the training set into clean and noisy for training the multi-class model and to re-label the training samples with multiple top-ranked labels for training the multi-label model. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world noisy-label datasets show that AsyCo improves over current SOTA methods.

Recently, there has been an interest in improving the resources available in Intrusion Detection System (IDS) techniques. In this sense, several studies related to cybersecurity show that the environment invasions and information kidnapping are increasingly recurrent and complex. The criticality of the business involving operations in an environment using computing resources does not allow the vulnerability of the information. Cybersecurity has taken on a dimension within the universe of indispensable technology in corporations, and the prevention of risks of invasions into the environment is dealt with daily by Security teams. Thus, the main objective of the study was to investigate the Ensemble Learning technique using the Stacking method, supported by the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and k-Nearest Neighbour (kNN) algorithms aiming at an optimization of the results for DDoS attack detection. For this, the Intrusion Detection System concept was used with the application of the Data Mining and Machine Learning Orange tool to obtain better results

This work presents a thorough review concerning recent studies and text generation advancements using Generative Adversarial Networks. The usage of adversarial learning for text generation is promising as it provides alternatives to generate the so-called "natural" language. Nevertheless, adversarial text generation is not a simple task as its foremost architecture, the Generative Adversarial Networks, were designed to cope with continuous information (image) instead of discrete data (text). Thus, most works are based on three possible options, i.e., Gumbel-Softmax differentiation, Reinforcement Learning, and modified training objectives. All alternatives are reviewed in this survey as they present the most recent approaches for generating text using adversarial-based techniques. The selected works were taken from renowned databases, such as Science Direct, IEEEXplore, Springer, Association for Computing Machinery, and arXiv, whereas each selected work has been critically analyzed and assessed to present its objective, methodology, and experimental results.

Machine Learning algorithms have been extensively researched throughout the last decade, leading to unprecedented advances in a broad range of applications, such as image classification and reconstruction, object recognition, and text categorization. Nonetheless, most Machine Learning algorithms are trained via derivative-based optimizers, such as the Stochastic Gradient Descent, leading to possible local optimum entrapments and inhibiting them from achieving proper performances. A bio-inspired alternative to traditional optimization techniques, denoted as meta-heuristic, has received significant attention due to its simplicity and ability to avoid local optimums imprisonment. In this work, we propose to use meta-heuristic techniques to fine-tune pre-trained weights, exploring additional regions of the search space, and improving their effectiveness. The experimental evaluation comprises two classification tasks (image and text) and is assessed under four literature datasets. Experimental results show nature-inspired algorithms' capacity in exploring the neighborhood of pre-trained weights, achieving superior results than their counterpart pre-trained architectures. Additionally, a thorough analysis of distinct architectures, such as Multi-Layer Perceptron and Recurrent Neural Networks, attempts to visualize and provide more precise insights into the most critical weights to be fine-tuned in the learning process.

Some recent pieces of work in the Machine Learning (ML) literature have demonstrated the usefulness of assessing which observations are hardest to have their label predicted accurately. By identifying such instances, one may inspect whether they have any quality issues that should be addressed. Learning strategies based on the difficulty level of the observations can also be devised. This paper presents a set of meta-features that aim at characterizing which instances of a dataset are hardest to have their label predicted accurately and why they are so, aka instance hardness measures. Both classification and regression problems are considered. Synthetic datasets with different levels of complexity are built and analyzed. A Python package containing all implementations is also provided.

In the last decade, exponential data growth supplied machine learning-based algorithms' capacity and enabled their usage in daily-life activities. Additionally, such an improvement is partially explained due to the advent of deep learning techniques, i.e., stacks of simple architectures that end up in more complex models. Although both factors produce outstanding results, they also pose drawbacks regarding the learning process as training complex models over large datasets are expensive and time-consuming. Such a problem is even more evident when dealing with video analysis. Some works have considered transfer learning or domain adaptation, i.e., approaches that map the knowledge from one domain to another, to ease the training burden, yet most of them operate over individual or small blocks of frames. This paper proposes a novel approach to map the knowledge from action recognition to event recognition using an energy-based model, denoted as Spectral Deep Belief Network. Such a model can process all frames simultaneously, carrying spatial and temporal information through the learning process. The experimental results conducted over two public video dataset, the HMDB-51 and the UCF-101, depict the effectiveness of the proposed model and its reduced computational burden when compared to traditional energy-based models, such as Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Deep Belief Networks.

在本文中，我们研究了DRL算法在本地导航问题的应用，其中机器人仅配备有限​​量距离的外部感受传感器（例如LIDAR），在未知和混乱的工作区中朝着目标位置移动。基于DRL的碰撞避免政策具有一些优势，但是一旦他们学习合适的动作的能力仅限于传感器范围，它们就非常容易受到本地最小值的影响。由于大多数机器人在非结构化环境中执行任务，因此寻求能够避免本地最小值的广义本地导航政策，尤其是在未经训练的情况下，这是非常兴趣的。为此，我们提出了一种新颖的奖励功能，该功能结合了在训练阶段获得的地图信息，从而提高了代理商故意最佳行动方案的能力。另外，我们使用SAC算法来训练我们的ANN，这表明在最先进的文献中比其他人更有效。一组SIM到SIM和SIM到现实的实验表明，我们提出的奖励与SAC相结合的表现优于比较局部最小值和避免碰撞的方法。

随着深层技术的传播，这项技术变得非常易于访问和足够好，以至于对其恶意使用感到担忧。面对这个问题，检测锻造面孔对于确保安全和避免在全球和私人规模上避免社会政治问题至关重要。本文提出了一种使用卷积神经网络检测深击的解决方案，并为此目的开发了一个数据集-celeb -df。结果表明，在这些图像的分类中，总体准确性为95％，提出的模型接近于最新的现状，并且可以调整未来出现的操纵技术的可能性。。

本文提出了一种以非零速度的效果友好型捕捉对象的混合优化和学习方法。通过受约束的二次编程问题，该方法生成最佳轨迹，直至机器人和对象之间的接触点，以最小化其相对速度并减少初始影响力。接下来，生成的轨迹是由基于人类的捕捉演示的旋风动作原始词更新的，以确保围绕接口点的平稳过渡。此外，学习的人类可变刚度（HVS）被发送到机器人的笛卡尔阻抗控制器，以吸收后影响力并稳定捕获位置。进行了三个实验，以将我们的方法与固定位置阻抗控制器（FP-IC）进行比较。结果表明，所提出的方法的表现优于FP-IC，同时添加HVS可以更好地吸收影响后力。